Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University

Research areas: Genomic instability, Gene Fusion; DNA repair; Transcription; Nucleolar condensate; Cancer

Award Citation: The AYSF Committee acknowledges his fundamental contribution in elucidating biochemical mechanisms driving chromosomal translocations and would like to support his exploration in defining how, when and where in the cell cycle, the first events of chromosomal translocations happen.

Bio: Dr. Takaaki Yasuhara is a Professor at the Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University. He received Ph.D. in medicine from the University of Tokyo in 2015 and served as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo for three years. After three and a half year postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University, he moved back to Japan and worked at the Isotope Science Center, the University of Tokyo as a Project Lecturer. Dr. Yasuhara has been engaged in research on how genomic instability arises during the onset of diseases, such as cancer. One of his greatest contributions to the field involves the identification of collaborative mechanisms between transcription and DNA repair machinery, which protect the genome from mutagenesis. In 2023, Dr. Yasuhara received the Young Scientists' Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

Personal Web: https://kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/profile/en.417d211535a828dc.html