
Atsushi Shimizu
Iwate Medical University, Japan
Biography
Atsushi Shimizu graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan and obtained PhD degree in science from Aoyama Gakuin University in 1999. He then worked as a post-doc with Professor Nobuyoshi Shimizu at Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. He was an Associate Professor at the Keio University School of Medicine. He is now a Principal Investigator at Iwate Medical University. Over the last two years, he has developed a research project with his group focusing on the large-scale genome cohort study aiming to characterize the genome, epigenome and transcriptome analysis.