Masae Iwasaki received her PhD from Nippon Medical School in 2013. She worked as a visiting researcher in the Section of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine, and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London (2012–2014; 2018–2020). In 2020, she joined the Department of Anesthesiology at Nippon Medical School, where she was promoted to professor in 2024. Her research interests include cancer cell biology, RNA analysis, anesthetics, and siRNA transfection.