Researcher

Ichiro Hirao

Ichiro Hirao was a Senior Principal Investigator at the Institute of Bioengineering and Bioimaging (IBB), A*STAR, in Singapore. He received his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1983. In 1992, he became an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. He joined the Japan Science and Technology Agency in 1997 as a Group Leader to begin work on unnatural base pairs. From 2006 to 2015, he led a synthetic biology team in RIKEN, Japan, which relocated to Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in November 2015.

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