Shigenobu YONEMURA, Ph. D.  

Shigenobu Yonemura received his B. Sc., M. Sc. and Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo, earning his doctorate in 1988 for thesis work under Prof. I. Mabuchi. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the same institution before moving to pursue a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University from 1989 to 1990. He returned to Japan as an assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, where he remained until 1995. He joined the Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine the same year, first as an assistant professor, then as a lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology, a position he retained until his appointment as CDB team leader in 2001.