Tokyo University Prof. Yusuke Nakamura will step down as head of the office promoting medical innovation in the Cabinet Secretariat and move to the University of Chicago, it was learned Monday.
Nakamura, 59, will make the move in April next year.
Nakamura, a leading authority on genomic research, hopes to put new anticancer drugs to practical use in the United States.
His decision likely will cause controversy, as it means a leader of medical innovation in Japan has given up on research and development of medicine here. (Yomiuri)
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