Telhisa Hasegawa
Chief Researcher: Equine Research Institute, Japan

The Japanese love horses and this is nowhere more apparent than in the support they provide for horse research.  Telhisa and his colleagues have been active in building the gene map and using it to investigate horse behavior, fertility and performance. 

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Teruaki Tozaki
Scientist, Laboratory of Racing Chemistry, Japan

The Laboratory of Racing Chemistry (LRC) is the organization for doping and pedigree test for all racing horses in Japan. I was captain of a horse back riding team at my university, and now train jumping and dressage for the lab's horseback riding team. Recently I have become interested in the secrets of performance of racing horses.

Kazuhiko Imakawa
Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

I grew up on a rice and beef cattle farm in Japan.  Then, as a young man, I was a cowboy riding horses and working cattle in Idaho for almost two years before deciding my true vocation was to become a research scientist.  I love the placenta! The focus of my work is to understand development of the horse embryo, before implantation, and the causes of early fetal losses in mares. 

Biography - translated from Japanese