Masaaki Muraoka is the Director of the Department of Genetics Analysis, a certified non-profit organization of the Biomedical Science Association. He graduated from the Osaka Prefecture University in 1996 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Chemistry, and biochemistry and molecular biology. Subsequently, he graduated from the Department of Medicine at Osaka University as a graduate student in 1999 with a Master’s Degree in Medical Science, studying learned immunology and infectious disease and contributing to clarification of the association of CD40 with the Epstein-Barr virus. He worked at various companies after graduation and conducted basic research in molecular biology, including development of reagents for real-time PCR and direct PCR. He took his current position in August of 2020. His fields of interest are molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, infection disease, and developmental engineering, and is a member of the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science.