Diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration are leading causes of vision loss worldwide, which has motivated me to focus my work on the development of the retina, as an academic ophthalmologist, clinician, and vitreoretinal surgeon. As a vitreoretinal surgeon who has performed many procedures and other treatments for these diseases, I realized that current treatment is not yet optimal. Some can even be destructive. Because of the need to develop better approaches to treatments and prevention, I hope to develop new drugs for the prevention of disease. I am now developing a new instrument that can measure mitochondrial function in the retina in vivo. I am the recipient of the Bert M. Glaser, MD Award for Innovative Research in Retina (2021), the Young Investigator Award (2021) from the Japan Ophthalmology Society, and the Young Investigator Grant Award (2020) from the Alcon Research Institute.