Hiroshi Asahara

Dr. Hiroshi Asahara was trained as an Orthopedic Surgeon after graduating from Okayama University Medical School, and his career as a researcher led him to be a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and a staff scientist at Salk Institute, under Prof. Marc Montminy. Dr. Asahara now organize his own lab as Professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, USA, and as Professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. Based on his unique Systems Biomedicine approaches combining a novel strategy and database, he and his lab are trying to uncover molecular mechanisms of musculoskeletal development and are also identifying the critical pathway to regulate inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis.