Masanori Sawada

Masanori Sawada joined Healios K.K. in 2012, after working at the Department of Medicine in the Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology at Kurume University Hospital.

His work helped to launch Kobe Research Institute, and he has contributed to establishing culturing methods for iPS cell–derived RPE cells at actual production levels.

He opened a collaborative research laboratory with Osaka University in 2014, and is now engaged in developing an automated cell culture system.