Professional Experience

2020–present

Professor, Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tokushima University

2014–2020

Assistant Professor, Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science
Hokkaido University

2014–2018

PRESTO researcher, JST

2011–2015

Postdoctoral associate, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, U.S.A.

2011

Postdoctoral associate, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Education

2011

Ph.D., Life Science
Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Dissertation, “NMR analyses of protein structure and interaction using the paramagnetic lanthanide tag”

2008-2011

Ph. D. student, Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Focusing on “Protein structure determinations and interaction analyses using paramagnetic lanthanide probes”
Advisor: Prof. Fuyuhiko Inagaki

2006-2008

Master of science, Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, “Paramagnetic lanthanide tagging for NMR structural analysis”
Advisor: Prof. Fuyuhiko Inagaki

2006

Diploma thesis, “Cell-free protein production for NMR structural analysis”
Advisor: Prof. Fuyuhiko Inagaki

2002-2006

Under graduate studies in pharmaceutical sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan

Honors and Awards

2021

Astellas Award for the Best Biomedical Research 2021

2018

Young Investigator Award, The Japanese Biochemical Society Hokkaido Branch

2018

Research Incentive Award, The Chemical Society of Japan Hokkaido Branch

2014

Young Scientist Award at The 15th Annual Meeting of the Protein Science Society of Japan

2010

Student Poster Award at 24th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS)

2009

Travel grant for The 3rd APNMR in South Korea, The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of Japan

2008

Young Scientist Poster Award at The 47th Annual Meeting of the NMR Society of Japan