Keisuke Okuhara is the co-founder and CEO of PtBio inc. He also leads a co-creation consortium between industry and academia (COI-NEXT) to promote “Bio-Digital Transformation” with CTO, Takashi Yamamoto.
He served as a member of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Cabinet Secretariat, Higashi-Hiroshima City, and then to Hiroshima University. He experienced Entrepreneurship programs such as EDGE sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, Technology, Program of Start-up incubation from COre Research (SCORE) sponsored by JST, and Blockbuster TOKYO, and then established PtBIo Inc.

Takashi Yamamoto is the co-founder and CTO of PtBio inc. He is the Professor and Director of Hiroshima University Genome editing Innovation Center. He has been a top runner in genome editing research and president of the Japanese Society for genome editing. He promotes all-Japan industry-academia co-creation as the area manager of the OPERA “Genome editing” industry-academia co-creation consortium and the project leader of COI-NEXT to promote “Bio-Digital Transformation” . He also works on developing advanced human resources for genome editing through WISE Program (Doctoral Program for World-leading Innovative & Smart Education) sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Hidemasa BONO is the science and technology advisor. He is the specially appointed professor in Hiroshima University Graduate School of Integrated Science for Life and the visiting professor of Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS). He is a top runner in bioinformatics, which is an essential part of genome information analysis. He has been involved in a number of research projects, including the development of a database for FANTOM international joint research (RIKEN) and the development of an AOE index of public genome expression data (DBCLS).

Tetsushi Sakuma is the science and technology advisor. He is the Professor in Hiroshima University Graduate School of Integrated Science for Life. He has been a top runner in genome editing research, and engaged in the development and application of new genome editing technologies. He developed the highly efficient genome editing tool “Platinum TALEN”, the simple genome insertion method “PITCh method”, and the systems which are modified from CRISPR-Cas9, “TREE system” and “LoAD system”.