Dr. Masaya Baba is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Urology at Kumamoto University, Japan. He graduated from Yokohama City University School of Medicine, and obtained his M.D. in 1994. After completing his clinical training, he enrolled in a graduate program and earned his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine. After working as an assistant professor in the Department of Urology, he became a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute, NIH in 2003. He then worked as a Research Fellow and became a Staff Scientist at the Urologic Oncology Branch, NCI in 2011. In 2014, he became an Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, and has been in his current position since 2024. His expertise lies in the basic research of Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), with a particular focus on BHD syndrome-associated RCC and TFE3-rearranged RCC.