I graduated from a medical school and trained for ~10 years as a physician. Then I started a carrier as a molecular biologist and joined a lab in the US (Dr. Tomohiro Kurosaki). After I returned to Japan I moved to Kyoto University (Dr. Shunichi Takeda) and since then I have been in the field of DNA repair, damage response and homologous recombination. I would like to elucidate disease mechanisms in cancer and hereditary