Shin-ichi Hirano, Director and Chief Scientific Officer, MiZ Company Limited. 1969–1973: Undergraduate student, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University; 1988–1991: Graduate research student, Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University. Veterinarian (1973), Ph.D. in Veterinary medicine (Veterinary pharmacology, 1991). 1973–1998: Senior researcher, Mercian Corporation. 1998–2012: Research manager and Director, Mercian Cleantec Corporation. 2012–: Director and Chief Scientific Officer, MiZ Company Limited. Pharmacology, Toxicology, Hydrogen medicine. Academic councilor of Japanese Pharmacological Society (1994–). No. of published papers: 80.