NAME: Osamu OHARA

Nationality: Japanese

EDUCATION:

• Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

(Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Enzyme, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University), received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1983.

Occupation:

• Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Walter Gilbert at Harvard

University (The Biological Laboratories) under the support from Shionogi Research Laboratories, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.

1988-1994  Shionogi Research Laboratories, Shionogi & Co. Ltd.

1994-             Kazusa DNA Research Institute.

2001-2015     Visiting professor of Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chiba University.

2001-2022  Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, RIKEN Yokohama Institute

2014-             Specially appointed professor, Future Medicine Education and Research Organization, Chiba University

2020-      Specially appointed professor, Medical school of Shinshu University

Research societies: Executive director of Japanese society of Omics medicine and Japanese society for neonatal screening; Adviser of Japanese society of immunodeficiency and autoinflammatory diseases,