Masako Tada, Ph.D.

Masako Tada has been a member of the Stem Cells & Reprogramming Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Japan since April 2017. She completed her doctoral work with Nobuo Takagi at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and then pursued three years of further doctoral and postdoctoral studies with Azim M. Surani at the Wellcome/CRC Institute, Cambridge, UK. She was a Principal Investigator with the JSPS Foundation for three years and with JST Sakigake Foundation for another three years. She was a professor at the Chromosome Research Technology Center, Tottori University, Japan for seven years. Her laboratory uses mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the maintenance of stem cell properties and epigenetic reprogramming during germline development. In recent years, her laboratory has also engaged in applied research on stem cells that can support drug discovery and development by producing human adult hepatocyte-like cells from the bipotential hepatic carcinoma cell line HepaRG and pluripotent iPS cells.