Personal
Place of birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Education
April 1992 – Entered School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University
March 1996 – Graduated from School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University
Aplil 1996 – Entered Master’s Course of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University
March 1998 – Graduated Master’s Course of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University
April 1998 – Entered Docter’s Course of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University
March 2001 – Received a Ph. D degree from School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University
Career
April 2001 to March 2003
– A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (Prof. Amos B. Smith, III)
April 2003 to May 2006
– Researcher, The Kitasato Institute
January 2005 to March 2005
– Visiting researcher, The Scripps Research Institute (Prof. K. Barry Sharpless)
June 2006 to June 2008
– Assistant Manager, The Kitasato Institute
July 2008 to May 2010
– Lecturer, Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University
June 2010 to March 2020
– Associate Professor, Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University
April 2020 to March 2022
– Associate Professor, Ōmura Satoshi Memorial Institute, Kitasato University (Change of Institute name)
April 2022 to present
– Professor, Ōmura Satoshi Memorial Institute, Kitasato University
Honor
April 1998 – March 2001 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
April 2001 – March 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow of Japan Antibiotic Research Association
February 2004 – Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
June 2010 – Ninomiya Yoshimoto Award (from Kitasato Institute)
October 2011 – The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Kanto Branch Award for Young Scientists
February 2012 – Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
July 2014 – Morimura Houmei Award (from Kitasato Institute)
July 2014 – Young Scientists Award of the Synmposium on Enzyme Applications
April 2024 – Nagase Foundation Award