Prof. Dr. Hirohide Saito is now Professor at Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University. After completing predoctoral training at the University of Tokyo and SUNY Buffalo in USA, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2002. He is interested in the field of synthetic biology & nanotechnology. He aims to understand design principle of living systems and develop new technologies that are useful for cell research. Recently he developed RNA switch technology to detect and control live cell functions in a customized manner.