Hiroshi Makino

Assistant Professor Hiroshi Makino is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. Dr Makino started his scientific career at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he studied adult neurogenesis in the mammalian hippocampus. He obtained his PhD from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where he studied AMPA receptor dynamics and synaptic plasticity. He conducted his postdoctoral research at University of California, San Diego where he investigated learning-related transformations of micro- and macro-scale cortical activity. He is a recipient of the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and the Young Investigator Award from the Japan Neuroscience Society.