He received his PhD in medicine from Tokyo Women’s Medical University. His areas of expertise are cardiology, regenerative medicine, stem cell biology for scale-up and tissue engineering. He has received Young Investigator’s Award, The Japanese Circulation Society (2005); Inoue Memorial Foundation Research Award, Inoue Research Foundation (2007); Yamakawa Hisako Research Award, Tokyo Women’s Medical University (2008); and poster award, Molecular Cardiovascular Conference (2007 and 2008). His current research interests are stem cell expansion biology and technology and cellular sociology in bioengineered tissue.