Dr. Masafumi Muratani, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Genome Biology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tsukuba.
He graduated with a PhD from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson School of Biological Sciences and a B.Sc. from the University of Tsukuba, College of Biological Science. He is currently researching technology development for genomics analysis of limited samples.
Professional Experiences (academic)
2020 – Visiting Professor, Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Medicine
2019 – Professor, University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Medicine
2014-2019 – Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Medicine
2008-2014 – Research Associate, Genome Institute of Singapore
2006-2008 – Long-Term Fellow, Human Frontier Science Program
2006 – Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship for Study Abroad
2005-2008 – Research Fellow, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute
Professional Experiences (non-academic)
2018 – Senior Research Fellow, Genome Science Research Center, LSI Medience Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) by Cross-Appointment System in University of Tsukuba
2018 – Research Advisor, Robotic Biology Institute Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)
2016-2018 – Advisor, Tsukuba i-Laboratory LLP (Tsukuba, Japan)
Academic membership
2020 – International Standards for Space Omics Processing (ISSOP), Japan contact
2018 – Japan Society for Biological Sciences in Space
2018 – Japanese Association of Space Radiation Research
2017 – Human Genome Organization (HUGO)