Hidehiko Inomata


Hidehiko Inomata gained his doctorate from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003, and moved to take a research scientist position at the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation in Kobe, Japan that same year. From 2004 to 2012, he worked as a research scientist in the RIKEN CDB Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis, and in 2012, he was appointed a Senior Scientist in the same lab. In 2015, he was also named a researcher in the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) PRESTO program. He was appointed Team Leader of the Laboratory for Axial Pattern Dynamics in 2014. Currently, his laboratory seeks to understand how the morphogen gradient is properly regulated during development process.