Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae of Dr.Tohru Inoue

Director, Center for Biological Safety & Research, National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan

M.D. from Yokohama City University (YCU) in 1970, and Ph.D. in general and hematopathology from the YCU-Graduate School for Medicine in 1974. Post-doctoral research involved hemopoietic stem cell biology at National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), and continued, as Principal Investigator, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (1974–1984). In 1979, Visiting Investigator, and later as Research Collaborator at the Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, involved in radiation and chemical leukemogenesis in molecular biological aspects for 18 years. 1984-1994, Associate Professor in Pathology, at YCU, with a research program on Cytokines and Cytokine Receptors establishing a variety of transgenic and/or knock out mice. After an appointment as Head at the NIRS, he engaged with Chairman, Cellular and Molecular Toxicology Division, National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) from 1995, and since 2001, Director, Center for Biological Safety & Research.