Katsutoshi Hayashi


Katsuhiko Hayashi has been a professor at Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Kyushu University, since 2014. In 2004, he received PhD from Tokyo University of Science and joined to Yasuhisa Matsui’s lab at Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital. In 2005, He joined Azim Surani’s lab at University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2009, He joined Mitinori Saitou’s lab at Kyoto University. Throughout his research career, Hayashi has worked on understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying germ cell specification and differentiation in mice. He recently developed a culture system that reproduces germ cell differentiation using pluripotent stem cells. With the system, his lab focus on early differentiation of oocytes from primordial germ cells.