CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Akihiro SHIMA

 

 

Date and place of birth: January 9, 1941, Kyoto City, Japan.

 

Nationality: Japan,  Male

 

Working address

1-7 Ieno-mae, Rokkasho, Aomori 039-3212, Japan.

                Tel.+81 175 71 1200, Fax:+81 175 72 3690, E-mail: shima@ies.or.jp

 

(Emeritus):

Department of Integrated Biosciences 102, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences,

The University of Tokyo.

Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa-City, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.

                Tel. and Fax:+81 4 7136 3672,  E-mail: shima@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

 

Academic background:

1965        B.Sc., University of Tokyo, Biology

 

1967        M.Sc., University of Tokyo, Radiation Biology

 

1971        Ph.D., University of Tokyo, Radiation Biology

 

 

Work experience:

1967-1976               Research Associate; University of Tokyo, Laboratory of Radiation Biology

 

1976-1983               Associate Professor; Shiga University of Medical Science, Department of Experimental Radiology

 

1982, 85, 86, 87

Visiting Scientist to Dr. Richard B. Setlow (Associate Director for Life Sciences); Brookhaven National Laboratory, Biology Department, New York

 

1983-1985               Associate Professor; University of Tokyo, Laboratory of Radiation Biology

 

1985-2003               Professor of Radiation Biology; University of Tokyo, School of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Radiation Biology

 

1996-  2003           Professor and “Producer”(=Founder), Department of Integrated Biosciences,

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

 

2003                                    Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo (Biosciences)

 

2005              Director General and Senior Executive Director, Institute for Environmental Sciences (IES)

 

2009     President, Institute for Environmental Sciences (IES).

 

Concurrent jobs:

2000-2003               Research Collaborator, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, N.Y., U.S.A.

 

1987-1989              Visiting Professor; Kyoto University, Radiation Biology Center

 

1990-1994               Visiting Professor; Kyoto University, Radiation Biology Center

 

 

Research interest: DNA repair, germ-cell mutagenesis, radiation genetics, Medaka fish as a model organism based on genetics and genomics

 

Memberships:       Japan Radiation Research Society

Japan Society for Biomedical Gerontology

                                Zoological Society of Japan

                                Japanese Association for Radiation Research

                                Japan Society for Cell Biology

                                American Society for Photobiology (U.S.A.)

                                Environmental Mutagen Society (U.S.A.)

                                International Association for Radiation Research

International Molecular Biology Network (IMBN) for Asia and the Pacific Rim　(1998-)

 

Councilors:      Japan Radiation Research Society

                                Japan Society for Biomedical Gerontology

                                Japan Society for Cell Biology

                                International Association for Radiation Research

 

 

Other activities:

Coordinator in charge of Zoology field, The JSPS-NUS Core University Programme in the priority field of Natural Science, 1985-1995

 

Secretary General, The Japanese Association for Radiation Research, 1988-1991

 

Chairman, Zoological Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo,  1986-1989

 

Assistant to President of the University of Tokyo (Dr. Akito ARIMA), 1989-1990

 

Chairman, The JSPS-NUS Core University Programme in the priority field of Natural Science, 1991-1995

 

President, The Japan Radiation Research Society,  1992-1995

 

President, The Japanese Association for Radiation Research, 1992-1999

 

Japanese Representative for the International Association for Radiation Research, 1992-1999

 

Chairman, Japan National Committee for Radiation Research, Science Council of Japan, 1994 - 1997

 

                                Co-organizer (with M.Schartl), Advanced Workshop in Biotechnology, Commission of the European

Communities, Gene Expression and Regulation, 1st Medaka Course, Wuerzburg, February 1993

 

Co-organizer (with W. Driever, M. Schartl, C. Winkler), EMBO Practical Course on Medaka and Zebrafish Development, Wuerzburg, February-March, 1996

 

                                Co-organizer (with W. Driever, M. Schartl, M. Westerfield), EMBO Practical Course on                                                                 Development, Genetics and Genomics of Zebrafish and Medaka, Freiburg, March, 1998

 

Principal Investigator, Scientific Research on Priority Area # 813 granted by the MEXT, Japan:

Study of Medaka as a Model for Organization and Evolution of the Nuclear Genome, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan. 1999 – 2003.

 

                                Co-organizer (with W. Driever, M. Schartl, M. Westerfield and J. Wittbrodt), EMBO Practical Course on                                      Development, Genetics and Genomics of Zebrafish and Medaka, at EMBL, Heidelberg, 2002.

 

                                Chairman, the Medaka Genome Initiative (MGI) 2002.

 

 

Award:                    The 2004 Prince Hitachi Prize for Comparative Oncology for Studies on Medaka Tumors and Genome Analysis (from The Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research)

 

                                The 2008 Outstanding Service Award: The Japan Radiation Research Society

 

(As of April 2009)