Hitoshi Sawa

Hitoshi Sawa obtained his baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees from Kyoto University in the period from 1982 to 1991. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology on a Human Frontier Science Program grant during the period from 1991 to 1994, then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1994 to 1997 under support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He returned to Japan in 1997 to continue his work at Osaka University, first as a postdoc, then as researcher funded by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation PRESTO program. He took his current position at the RIKEN CDB in 2001. His current research focuses on regulation of asymmetric cell divisions during development of C. elegans.