Bio
I obtained B.S. and Ph.D. degree at the faculty of science, Kyoto University in Japan. I subsequently received the postdoctoral training at the laboratories of Dr. Judith Campisi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Dr. Yanping Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in US, where I worked extensively on ARF-MDM2-p53 pathway. I identified the nucleolar protein B23/NPM1 and the mitochondrial protein p32 as ARF-binding partners. I also reported the E3 ligase-deficient Mdm2 knock-in mouse model for studying the E3 ligase activity of MDM2 in vivo. I have been an Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore since Oct 2009. My laboratory published several papers related to the critical role of ARF-MDM2-p53 pathway in cancer. The current focus of my research is finding the novel non-canonical tumor suppressive functions of ARF and p53 and cancer metabolism.
Education
Doctor of Science
Kyoto University, Japan
Master of Science
Kyoto University, Japan
Bachelor of Arts
Kyoto University, Japan