Hiroshi Arakawa
biotechnology
Redpoint Research
United States of America
Biography
Hiroshi Arakawa studied at Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan), where he obtained his diploma and Ph.D in Molecular Biology in Hideo Yamagishi’s laboratory. Following postdoctoral studies in Jean-Marie Buerstedde's laboratory in Heinrich-Pette-Institut (Hamburg, Germany), he worked as a Senior Research Fellow in Jean-Marie Buerstedde's laboratory in Helmholtz Center Munich (Munich, Germany). He moved to IFOM (Milan, Italy) as a staff scientist in 2011. He has so far studied the molecular mechanism of immunoglobulin gene conversion and somatic hypermutation, and their application to artificial evolution system. He has recently invented a method to convert mRNA into a gRNA library, which can be applied to forward genetic screening in any species.
Research Interest
biotechnology
