Masaaki Fujiki, Ph

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Masaaki Fujiki, Ph.D.

 

Masaaki is a molecular biologist who received his B.S in applied biological sciences from the Science 

University of Tokyo, his M.S. in biology from California State University and his PhD in cell and 

molecular biology with a minor in biochemistry from Penn State.   After Masaaki received his Ph.D. 

from the Penn State, he did a short post-doc at Duke University before returning to Japan where he 

worked at RIKEN Institute. Upon returning to the USA he completed post-docs at St. Louis, MO 

(Washington University, and then Donald Danforth Plant Science Center), before joining Fraunhofer 

Center for Molecular Biotechnology. Currently he works as a research associate in vector 

development group, trying to build and improve the plant expression vectors based on various plant 

viruses