After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo, he engaged in drug discovery research in the field of neurological diseases (e.g., Target ID/validation, development of in vitro assay systems) as a researcher at Merck Research Laboratories, USA and Toray Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories, Inc. in Japan. After working as COO at Hamamatsu Pharma Research USA, Inc. in San Diego, U.S., he joined Open Innovation Center at Bayer Japan in May 2020 and was involved in programs such as the startup support program Kansai Life Science Accelerator Program and a shared lab/office space, CoLaborator Kobe.

 

Since May 2023, he has been involved in fostering the life science innovation ecosystem and promoting overseas collaboration as Executive Life Science Strategist at Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. and General Manager at LINK-J.

 

PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and R.Ph. from the University of Tokyo, and MBA from University of California, San Diego.