Graduate School of Medical Science
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

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
2025	The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Promotion

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）
• Guest Editor of Themed Collection “Foldamers” in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry（October 2025）