Kikuë Tachibana (born 1978 in Graz, Austria[1]) is a Japanese-Austrian molecular biologist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried, Germany.
Formerly, she was a group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna, Austria.
[2] She obtained her PhD working on the cell cycle and cancer formation in the group of Ron Laskey at Cambridge University, UK.
[3][2] She later joined the lab of Kim Nasmyth in Oxford, UK as a post-doc, where she did pioneering work on the role of the protein cohesin in female mouse germ cells.
[2] In 2018, she received the Förderpreis der Stadt Wien, an award from the city of Vienna for outstanding scientific work.