Career
He participates in the International Human Epigenome Consortium. Sasaki was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1956, and received his Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy in 1982 and 1987, respectively, from Kyushu University. He was appointed as a professor of the National Institute of Genetics in 1998.
He has been a professor at the Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University since 2010, where he has been serving as a dean since 2012.
He has been a vice president of Kyushu University since 2015.
