Ph.D. in Pharmacy
Graduated from Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, and completed his Master’s degree at the same university. He worked on dermatology and skincare product development at a major Japanese cosmetics company. In 1999, he became a faculty member in the Department of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. After serving as Associate Research Professor and Research Professor, he assumed his current post as Research Professor (Dermatological Research) at Hallym University in 2021. That same year, he designed the Symfonia Cocktail™︎ based on the "Skin Stress Harmony Theory", leading to the development of SKINFONIA.