Hiromi Nakao-Inoue

Hiromi Nakao-Inoue, is the research coordinator of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi) at Kyoto University. She is in charge of developing research acceleration programs for early-stage researchers to help their career achievement. The program focuses on non-research skills such as the scientific communication and personal development. The scientific communication program covers scientific writing, drawing and presentation. The personal development program focuses on leadership, project management and recruitment skill etc.

Hiromi shows her enthusiasm towards supporting researchers to focus on their work to create outstanding findings. She started her career as a technical staff at the neural development lab in RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB). After moving to San Francisco, She joined the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as an Assistant Specialist. There, she soon became a lab manager at Department of Psychiatry/UCSF Weill institute for Neuroscience. As a lab manager, she led the development of institutional protocols, equipment maintenances, meeting organization and recruitment on behalf of the principal investigator in startup of the new lab.

Biography

Hiromi Nakao-Inoue graduated Tokushima University (2004) and obtained Master’s degree from Osaka University (2006). She worked at RIKEN CDB (2006-2012) and UCSF (2013-2020). She joined ASHBi Strategic Research Acceleration Unit in 2020.