1993 Received Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (under the supervision of Prof. Masaru Himeno), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. 1993-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Medical School (Prof. A.L. Hubbard’s lab), MD, USA 1996-2013 Assistant Professor at Kyushu University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan 2013-2013 Associate Professor at Nagasaki International University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan 2013-present Professor at Kyushu University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan