Education
Niikawa completed his Doctor of Medicine
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Niikawa completed his Doctor of Medicine
He and his colleagues also identified a gene for the syndrome. In 1967 from Hokkaido University School of Medicine. After residency in Pediatrics at Hokkaido University Hospital, he worked as pediatrician for several years.
From 1972 to 1975, he worked in the embryology and cytogenetics laboratory at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in the Cantonal Hospital, Geneva University.
He was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Human Genetics at Nagasaki University in 1984. After retiring from the position and becoming Professor Emeritus, he was Professor and Director at Research Institute of Personalized Health Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido where he became president in 2010.