Shinich Saitoh currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Immunology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine. They graduated from the Faculty of Science at Yamagata University in 2011 with a Doctor of Science degree. They worked as a postdoc research assistant at Yamagata University, Faculty of Medicine, after their graduation and was then promoted to their current position in June of 2018. Their current primary research interest is in the interaction between immunology and metabolism (immunometabolism), and their previous interests were in insulin resistance, non-obese type 2 diabetes, and heme biosynthesis and its disorders. They are a member of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Japanese Society for Immunology, the Japanese Biochemical Society, and ALA and Porphyrin Research Society.