Hiro Uryu

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Senior Scientist

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Biography

Hiro earned his BS degree in biology from Shimane University, followed by MS from Kyushu University and a Ph.D. from Nagoya University, both in the anatomy of animal science. He began his academic career as a junior faculty member at Nagoya University. He continued his research by undertaking medical science research as a postdoctoral trainee and junior faculty at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Marie-Francoise Chesselet, focusing on the plasticity of neuronal circuits.

He later became a senior scientific investigator at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked under Drs. John Trojanowski and Virginia M.Y. Lee. His research there involved in pathological characterization of the brains of age-related neurodegenerative diseases, organizing a brain autopsy program, and training neuropathologists.

He was the first to experimentally demonstrate the link between head injury and dementia. He was invited to establish the Electron Microscopy Resource Center at The Rockefeller University, where he contributed to setting up a state-of-the-art facility and numerous research programs, including the first structural analysis of the Hepatitis C virus. He also ventured into entrepreneurship by founding a consulting company to support academic institutions and biotech firms in the New York and New Jersey areas.

In 2020, he joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus as a senior scientist at the Electron Microscopy Shared Resource.

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