Masahiko Hibi

Masahiko Hibi received his M.D. from Hiroshima University School of Medicine in 1988. He obtained his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 1992, where he isolated a cDNA of gp130, the common receptor of IL-6-family cytokines. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Karin's lab at the University of California, San Diego Department of Pharmacology, where he identified Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs). He then returned to Japan as a research associate in the Division of Molecular Oncology at Osaka University Medical School and began studying developmental processes using zebrafish. In 1999, he was appointed associate professor at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, where he remained until he took a position as team leader at the RIKEN CDB. He was appointed to his current post as professor at Nagoya University in 2009. The current research interests in his laboratory include 1) body axis formation and 2) neurogenesis and neural circuit formation.

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