Teruhiko Wakayama received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from IbarakiUniversity, and was awarded a Ph. D. in reproductive biology from the University of Tokyo Department of Veterinary Anatomy in 1996. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in 1996 and spent the next two years at the Yanagimachi lab in the University of Hawaii Medical School, where he succeeded in producing the world’s first cloned mouse. He was appointed to an assistant professorship at the same institution in 1998, and moved to the Rockefeller University as a research assistant professor in 1999. He spent a year as a researcher at Advanced Cell Technology before returning to Japan to take his current position at the RIKEN CDB.