Hiro graduated from Kitasato University with a D.V.M. degree and earned his Ph.D. from the same institution. His dissertation focused on developing a new genetic tool to identify genes crucial for neutrophil evasion in Vibrio vulnificus, an opportunistic pathogen that can kill the infected host within 48 hours by causing sepsis. He acquired basic and advanced immunology and molecular biology techniques in bacteria. 

Hiro then moved to the University of Massachusetts for his postdoc career, supported by a postdoc fellowship from the Uehara Memorial Foundation, to study the mechanisms of plasma membrane domains important for cell envelope synthesis in mycobacteria, using the non-pathogenic model organism Mycobacterium smegmatis. He identified 11 genes critical for domain formation and discovered feedback mechanisms from the cell envelope to the plasma membrane. 

Hiro's interests include plasma membrane domains in different growth states of mycobacteria, drug development targeting these domains, and pathoadaptation mechanisms of the mycobacterial cell envelope. He is currently an assistant professor at Missouri State University.

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