1991: Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
1998: Completed Ph.D. program (Department of Surgery) at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
1999: Appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2014: Appointed as a Staff Research Associate at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
2016: Appointed as a Staff Research Associate, Lab Manager, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA