YAMADA Shintaro
Kyoto University The HAKUBI Center/Graduate School of Medicine／Department of Aging Science and Medicine／Program-specific Assistant Professor
Field of Research：DNA recombination and repair
From Nara Prefecture. In 2008, graduated from the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry in the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Science. Holds a doctoral degree from the Department of Biological Sciences in the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Science (2013). After working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Multidisciplinary Sciences at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, U.S.A. From 2018 to 2020, Yamada had a cross-appointment at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Medicine. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Radiation Genetics at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine from 2018 to 2023 and an Specially Appointed Senior Lecturer at the Department of Genome Biology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies from 2023 to 2024. He has been in his current position since 2024. He studies the molecular mechanisms of DNA recombination and repair, which can help us understand sexual reproduction, cancer, aging, and genetic engineering.
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