Department of Neurosurgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
Hamamatsu, Japan
Tomohiro Yamasaki, M.D., Ph.D. is a certificated neurosurgeon in Japan and working at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine as an assistant professor. He trained as a neurosurgeon after graduation from Hamamatsu University school of Medicine in Japan and started studying neuro-oncology research as a Ph.D. student at the graduate school of medicine of the same university. In graduate school, the work involved gene therapy and regenerative medicine associated with somatic stem cells as vehicles of therapeutic gene for glioma. During this time, he realized the necessity of basic science to improve the survival of glioma patients and the development of new treatment strategy. Thereafter, he joined the NCI Center for Research’s Neuro-Oncology Branch (NOB) as a postdoctoral fellow and was introduced to the field of metabolomics of neuro-oncology.
At present, he was back to the former university after three years of study at NIH and continue to work on the metabolic research for glioma in addition to neurosurgery as an assistant professor.