Hirohide SAITO Associate ProfessorAlumni
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Period1st（Term: from Apr. 2010 to Mar. 2015）
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Research InterestsSynthetic biology, Directed evolution, Bioengineering
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Research TopicSynthetic biology-based approaches to regulate cellular functions
Hirohide was born and raised in Osaka. After completing predoctoral training at SUNY Buffalo in USA, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2002. He is interested in the field of RNA synthetic biology and the origin of life. Synthetic biology has promising outlooks for biotechnology, and particularly for understanding the self-organizing principle of biological molecules and systems in life. He focuses on RNA and RNA protein (RNP) architectures to regulate cellular functions in a customized manner. Thus, he aims to develop new technologies and understand the design principles of biological molecules and systems by employing “bottom-up” synthetic approaches.