The seeds for Hirofumi Seo’s future medical technology startup were planted when he was only 14 years old, courtesy of a television show aired by Japanese national broadcaster NHK. That program, The Universe Within III: The Human Genome, aired in 1999 and featured 3D computer graphics to illustrate life at a cellular level.
“It wasn’t the typical drama or something purely for entertainment,” Seo says. “It was science.”
Around the same time, Seo was already active in his junior high school computer programming club, studying CGI. He particularly enjoyed generating his own graphics through C-language programming, without using any software. He remained involved in computer clubs up until graduating from high school. When it came time to choose a university major, Seo was torn over his two passions: making computer graphics and science.
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