Rate My Professor Hideyuki Okano

Hideyuki Okano is a professor in the Department of Physiology at Keio University School of Medicine and has served as dean of the Keio University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Keio University School of Medicine in 1983 and his Ph.D. in medical science from Keio University in 1988. Following postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1989 to 1993, he held professorships at the University of Tsukuba and Osaka University before returning to Keio University in 2001 as professor of physiology. He has also served as team leader at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science Laboratory for Marmoset Neural Architecture and as director of the Keio University Regenerative Medicine Research Center.

Okano’s research centers on developmental neurobiology, neural stem cells, iPS cell technology, spinal cord injury regeneration, and modeling neurological disorders using transgenic marmosets. He has led major initiatives including the Brain/MINDS project on brain mapping. His honors include the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2009 and the Erwin von Bälz Prize in 2014. He has held editorial roles with journals such as Stem Cell Reports and Cell Stem Cell and serves on boards including the International Society for Stem Cell Research.