Yuuki is a graduate of the University of Essex with a degree in Biology. He completed his dissertation with Dr. Vlad Teif on circulating cell-free DNA as a biomarker of age in extremely long-lived individuals. Prior to Retro, he was part of the Cavanaugh Lab responsible for recombinant protein expression of carbonic anhydrases in transgenic phaseolus vulgaris. He joined Retro in 2022 to build protein quantification and scRNA-seq capabilities for plasma-inspired therapeutics.