He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan. He had the privilege of working in islet core laboratory in Schulze Diabetes Institute of University of Minnesota in 2007. He worked with Prof. Bernhard Hering and Dr. Balamurugan for 2 years until the completion of his post-doctoral research under their supervision. Given the quality of the work in their laboratory, he has received multiple training in pancreas procurement, pancreas dissection, pancreas digestion, islet purification, culture and transplantation.