Career
March 2007: Graduated from Fukushima Prefectural Fukushima High School
March 2011: B.Sc., Department of Biological Sciences (Zoology), University of Tokyo
March 2013: M.Sc., Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo (Prof. Hiroyuki Takeda)
March 2016: Ph.D. (Science), Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo (Prof. Hiroyuki Takeda)
April 2016: Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Irvine (Dr. David M. Gardiner)
January 2018: Postdoctoral fellow, UConn Health (Dr. Cato T. Laurencin)
July 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience of Disease, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University
In their words
I grew up watching birds and collecting insects, and became a biologist because diversity and living systems fascinated me (my elementary-school yearbook said I would become a bird researcher; that part remains unfulfilled). I now study development, regeneration, differentiation, and aging.
Selected publications
- Otsuka, T., Matsui, H. Loss of tissue-state plasticity: a conceptual framework for age-associated regenerative failure. Inflamm. Regener. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41232-026-00435-3