ASTRA 2025

Yasuhiro Murakawa

Industry Supported Speaker, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology

Yasuhiro Murakawa, MD, PhD
Yasuhiro Murakawa graduated from Kyoto University School of Medicine in 2008. Following his residency at Kyoto University Hospital, he moved to the Max Delbru?ck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, and received his PhD from Free University of Berlin in 2014. He has led a laboratory at RIKEN since 2016. In 2020, he was appointed Professor at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, and in 2025 he also became Professor of Pathology in the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University. His research focuses on gene regulation and the development of single-cell transcriptomics methods.