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Hiroshi Hamada is Director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology and holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences at Osaka University. His laboratory studies embryonic patterning and organogenesis using the mouse as a model. Prompted by Hamada's discovery of Lefty, a left-right asymmetrically expressed member of the TGFβ family, his group has been investigating how body axes are established. Dr. Hamada received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Okayama University in Japan, and worked at the National Institutes of Health (USA) and Memorial University (Canada) for nine years. His interest in development stems from earlier work on embryonal carcinoma cells, which he performed in Canada. His current interests are the mechanisms underlying symmetry-breaking and the origins of body axes.
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