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Shigeo Koyasu
Japan
Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and President of the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology
Description
Dr. Shigeo Koyasu was born in Tokyo in 1955 and graduated from the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo in 1978. He was appointed as a research fellow of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science in 1981. In 1983, he obtained a Doctor of Science degree. After holding the positions of a research fellow, instructor of Pathology, assistant professor of Pathology, and associate professor of Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School since 1988, he became a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Keio University School of Medicine in 1995. In 2013, he became Group Director of the Laboratory for Immune Cell Systems at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) and Director of IMS in 2014. In 2015, he was appointed as Executive Director of RIKEN, in charge of research to oversee a wide range of research activities. He has been in his current position, President of the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) since April 2023. He was appointed as Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in May 2023.
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