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| Shinichi Aizawa received his Ph. D. in biochemistry from the Tokyo Kyoiku University Department of Zoology in 1973. He spent the period from 1974 to 1979 as an investigator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, then two years as a research fellow in the Laboratory of Genetic Pathology at the University of Washington (US). He returned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology in 1982, where he remained until 1986 when he moved to the RIKEN Tsukuba Life Science Center as a senior research associate. He was appointed professor in the Kumamoto University School of Medicine Department of Morphogenesis in 1994, and served in that position until 2002. Since 2000 he has served as CDB deputy director and group director of the Vertebrate Body Plan, as well as team leader of the Laboratory for Animal Resources and Genetic Engineering. His research focuses on the genetic regulation and molecular mechanisms that determine the regionalization of the vertebrate head. |
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