She received her PhD from Osaka University in Japan where she studied gene regulatory networks underlying neural plate development in vertebrates. She performed her postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania where her research focused on basic mechanisms by which pioneer transcription factor FoxA regulates the configuration of chromatin. While at Penn she received postdoctoral fellowships from JSPS, Naito, Astellas, and Uehara foundations. She joined Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in November 2017.