Kazuaki Monde is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University. He graduated from Tottori University in 2003 and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Kumamoto University in 2008. He served as a research assistant at Kumamoto University from April 2008 to August 2008 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan from September 2008 to August 2011. He became an assistant professor at Kumamoto University in September 2011 to research HIV and other retroviruses budding and infection. His research interests include Virus, Virus replication, antivirals, molecular virology, PCR, cell culture, viral infection, RNA, antiviral activity, and virus cultivation.