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Masahiro Iwamoto, DDS, PhD
About Masahiro Iwamoto, DDS, PhD
Titles
Faculty, Biomedical Research Program in Pediatric Orthopaedics
Certifications
Dental Surgery
Research Interests
Molecular mechanisms that control skeletal growth at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level; Molecular mechanisms that stimulate cartilage and bone repair; How aberrations in molecular mechanisms lead to acquired conditions such as heterotopic ossification (HO)
Education & training
Graduate Degree
PhD, Dentistry — Osaka University, Okayama, Japan (1988)
Medical Degree
DDS — Tokushima University, School of Dental Medicine, Tokushima, Japan (1984)