Personal
Place of birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: September 15, 1973.
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 –Researcher, The Kitasato Institute
January 2005 to March 2005
Visiting researcher, The Scripps Research Institute
(Prof. K. Barry Sharpless)
June 2006 –Assistant Manager, The Kitasato Institute
July 2008 –Lecturer, Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences,
Kitasato University
June 2010 –present
Associate Professor, Kitasato Institute for Life
Sciences, 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