[3] After her PhD, Kuroda worked at King's College London and the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK before returning to Japan in 1986.
Her work identified that the direction of the shell spiral is determined at very early stages of snail development.
[6] Her team later used CRISPR genetic editing to show that this process is dependent on a single gene, Lsdia1.
[7] Kuroda has established the Science Interpreter Training Program at the University of Tokyo and was appointed to serve as a governor for the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre in 2006.
[8] On June 10, 2009, Kuroda was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in its class for chemistry.