Rate My Professor Tomohiko Akiyama

Tomohiko Akiyama is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University School of Medicine. He earned a PhD in Life Science from the University of Tokyo in 2008, following a bachelor's degree from Waseda University in 2003 and master's studies at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. His prior appointments include positions at Keio University School of Medicine from 2013 to 2022, a JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health in the United States from 2011 to 2013, and earlier roles at the University of Tokyo. Akiyama received the Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award from the University of Tokyo in 2008.

His research centers on transcription control, epigenetics, and developmental biology, with a focus on preimplantation embryos, stem cells, enhancer regulation, sex difference formation, and molecular mechanisms such as liquid-liquid phase separation. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers, including the 2026 publication in Development on the functional redundancy between UTY and UTX in regulating transcription factors involved in pluripotency. Akiyama is a member of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine, and the Japan Epigenetics Research Association. Professional Email: null