Prof. Hiroyuki Sakurai Kyorin University School of Medicine, Japan

Hiroyuki Sakurai was graduated from Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. After clinical training in internal medicine both in Japan and the US, he started post doctoral research training on kidney development in Dr. Sanjay Nigam's lab initially at Harvard Medical School, then moved to UCSD. He has been... read morein his current position since 2009 and extended his research to transporter physiology with special focus on urate and amino acid transporters. In addition to basic research, he strives to improve medical pharmacology education for Kyorin University School of Medicine.