Medical Chemistry

Graduate School of Medical Science
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Makoto OBA

Makoto OBA

Makoto OBA

Appointment
Professor
Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medical Science,
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
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Education

1999 B.S., Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University
2001 M.S., Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University
2004 Ph.D., Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University

Employment

2002-2004 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow (DC), Kyushu University
2004 Post Doctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2004-2010 Assistant Professor, Division of Tissue Engineering, The University of Tokyo Hospital
2010-2020 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University
2020-present Professor, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Concurrent Position

2008 Visiting Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
2013-present Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Health Sciences
2016 Visiting Researcher, European Institute for Chemistry and Biology, Bordeaux
2020 Part-time Lecture, Nagasaki University
2020-present Guest Professor, Osaka University

Awards

2002 27th European Peptide Symposium Travel Award
2012 Daiichi-Sankyo Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
2013 The Pharmaceutical Society of Japana Award for Young Scientists
2016 Nagasaki Prefectural Science and Technology Award for Youg Scientists
2019 Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemisty, Japan, Kyushu-Yamaguchi Branch

International Journal Activities

  • Editorial Board of Molecules (September 2019-present), Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
  • Editor of Cell-Penetrating Peptides: Design, Development and Applications, Makoto Oba and Yosuke Demizu, Editors, Wiley-VCH-GmbH, ISBN: 978-3-527-35011-7(November 2022)