Masato Mitsuhashi

Dr. Masato Mitsuhashi began his career as a pediatrician with a subspecialty in allergy/immunology. In 1985 he joined Dr. Goetzl's laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco as a postdoc, developing expertise in molecular technologies. He subsequently joined Hitachi Chemical Research Center, advancing to the position of CSO. During his tenure at Hitachi, Dr. Mitsuhashi served as president/CEO for two spin-off companies; Advanced Gene Computing Technologies, Inc. (1993) and RNAture, Inc. (2000). During this period, he also held the position of associate professor in the Department of Pathology, University of California, Irvine (UCI) (1992-2005). Dr. Mitsuhashi has been an early advisory board member for the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the UCI School of Engineering and the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at the UCI School of Medicine.

Over the past several years, Dr. Mitsuhashi's work has been focused on developing various approaches, techniques and products for the isolation and characterization of nanosomes (nano-particles that include exosomes and ectosomes). As the Chief Technology Officer at NanoSomiX, he is using this expertise to translate innovative research advancements using exosomes in the blood into clinically applicable laboratory-developed tests.

Dr. Mitsuhashi received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Gunma University, Japan.