Shuji Kitahara has been an Associate Professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University (TWMU) since 2021. He graduated from Nippon Dental University in 1999 and then began working in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at TWMU as a resident. In 2004, he started a Ph.D. (medical science) course in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental biology at TWMU. After obtaining his Ph.D., he joined the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School for training as a postdoctoral fellow. After completing his studies abroad, he returned to TWMU as a faculty member.