I graduated from the Faculty of Technology at The University of Tokyo (B.Eng.) in 1989 and obtained my M.Med degree from Osaka University in 1991 and a Ph.D. degree from Niigata University in 1995. I worked for RIKEN Brain Science Institute (1995-2000), and I was appointed Senior Research Fellow (2000) and Chair (2003-2011) of the Department of Molecular Psychiatry, Tokyo Institute Psychiatry, and Leader of the Addiction Substance Project (2011-) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (2015-). In addition to these positions, I was appointed Chair of the Department of Neuropsychopharmacology at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (2024). At these institutions, I continued studies on addiction, schizophrenia, analgesia, and neurodevelopmental disorders at the molecular, genetic, animal-behavioral, and clinical levels. I have approximately 300 publications on these topics in prominent scientific journals. I have been a Fellow of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) since 2010 and am currently serving as CINP President (2024-2026). I served as President of the Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology (2016-2018) and President of the Asian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2019-2020). I became a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2021-) and a member of the Science Council of Japan (2014-2026).