Atsushi Asano is Professor at the Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University. He completed his PhD studies in Veterinary Science at Hokkaido University. He recently led a project to study the effects of Incretins on the reproductive organs. He has published 50 papers in various journals and serves as a Board Member of the Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science and the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science. His teaching disciplines include Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine and Animal Welfare, and his interests include obesity, reproductive biology, and laboratory animal welfare.