1994 graduated from okayama university, Japan, majoring in neuroscience.
1994- 1996 As a postdoctoral fellow in molecular cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley,
65438-0997-2006 Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
From 2000 to 2006, he worked as an assistant researcher and associate researcher in Oakland Institute of American Children's Hospital.
From 2003 to 2008, he served as visiting researcher and director of the Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory of Nutrition and Aging, Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Shanghai Academy of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
From 2006 to 2008, he was an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine.
In 2008, he was a professor at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine.
At present, distinguished professor of Xi Jiaotong University is a doctoral supervisor, director of Mitochondrial Biomedical Research Institute, dean of School of Life Science and Technology, and member of Discipline Planning and Development Committee of Jiaotong University.