Kazuo Ishii's Biography

Kazuo Ishii, Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture And Technology

Kazuo Ishii, Ph.D. is the Professor of Genome Science, the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.
After receiving the PhD degree from the Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokushima in 1995, he started professional career in genomic sciences.
From 1997 to 2000, he participated in human genome sequencing project at the University of Tokyo and RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Japan.
After that, he worked for SNPs discovery at Centre National de Genotypage, Evry, France (2001-2002).
In 2003, he changed his specialty to bioinformatics, especially such as data analysis and data mining. He performed bioinformatics research at Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases (2003-2005), Tokyo University of Science (2005-2009), and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2010).
In 2011, he got the present job and he has dedicated to the Human Resource Development Program in Agricultural Genome Sciences in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, funding supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT).