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Motoshi Hayano

Investor

Advisor - Longevity at Kicker Ventures

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Motoshi Hayano is an Associate Professor at the Division of Molecular Biology of Aging at Tokyo University of Science and an Assistant Professor at Keio University School of Medicine, with research focused on epigenome-mediated drivers of aging. He earned his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Tokyo, later conducting postdoctoral work in David A. Sinclair's laboratory at Harvard Medical School, where he developed the "ICE mouse" model of epigenetic aging. He co-founded One Genomics Inc. in 2023, where he leads aging research and aging clock development, and previously served as CSO of Tsubota Laboratory, Inc. from 2017 to 2024.

Experience

  1. One GenomicsCo-Founder, Head of Agingcurrent2023 — presentアメリカ合衆国
  2. Tokyo University of ScienceAssociate Professorcurrent2025 — present
  3. ASAGI Labs foundationChaircurrent2024 — presentToyko
  4. ASAGI Labs.IncCEOcurrent2024 — presentToyko
  5. ASAGI Labs Venturesco-foundercurrent2025 — presentToyko
  6. 慶應義塾大学Assistant Professorcurrent2023 — presentTokyo
  7. 慶應義塾大学Assistant Professor2021 — 2023
  8. 慶應義塾大学Assistant Professor2017 — 2021Tokyo
  9. Flox BioCo-Foundercurrent2023 — present日本 東京都
  10. ASG-KeioChairmancurrent2019 — presentTokyo
  11. United Japanese researchers Around the worldBoard Membercurrent2015 — presentJapan/USA
  12. Cheiron-InitiativeBoard Membercurrent2019 — presentTokyo
  13. Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical ScienceVisiting Researchercurrent2018 — presentTokyo
  14. anriAdvisor2018 — 2025
  15. Tsubota Laboratory, Inc.Chief Scientific Officer2017 — 2025Tokyo
  16. 株式会社慶應イノベーション・イニシアティブAdvisor2020 — 2024
  17. Japanese foundation for cancer researchVisiting Researcher2018 — 2022Tokyo
  18. Keio University, Faculty of Science and TechnologyAssistant Professor2021 — 2022
  19. npj Aging and Mechanisms of DiseaseAssistant Editor2017 — 2019Tokyo
  20. Harvard Medical SchoolVisiting Researcher2017 — 2018Boston

Education

  1. The University of TokyoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), graduate school of frontier sciences2005 — 2011

Skills & more

分子遺伝学ゲノミクス分子生物学細胞培養細胞生物学ウェスタンブロッティング生化学生命科学研究開発科学PCR顕微鏡使
  • Teaching licence, high school — United Latino Students Association

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