M. S. degree from department of Physics, the University of Tokyo. B. S. degree from department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science. Her career includes: Nomura Securities, Co., Ltd. (analyst, Investment Banking division.), Bloomberg LLP (data analyst), Ginza Galleries (International Public Relations/Overseas Project Integration) and Linkers Corporation (Managing Executive Officer). At Linkers Corporation, a start-up company in the technology matching service industry, she won MVP for top sales.

B. S. and M. S. degree from faculty of Materials Engineering, the University of Tokyo (Top Graduate, Dean’s Award). He is currently attending the Ph. D. course at Yoshida lab, faculty of Materials Engineering, Department of Engineering, the University of Tokyo.
Under the supervision of Prof. Yoshida, he is engaged in research on functional polymers, biomaterials, biomimetics, and non-linear non-equilibrium chemistry.
He was awarded the University of Tokyo President’s Award on his research about artificial amoeba utilizing polymeric fluids. In his career, he won more than ten awards at domestic and international conferences including Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter Award.
In addition to his research, he established science media and works as a writer collaborating with

B. S. degree from faculty of Chemistry and Biotechnology Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He is currently attending the master course at Nagamune lab., faculty of Chemistry and Biotechnology Engineering, Department of Engineering, the University of Tokyo.
Under the supervision of Prof. Nagamune, he is engaged in research on biotechnology such as cell and protein engineering, and developing a system to detect protein-protein interaction utilizing a cell fate and signaling. In this work, he was awarded Best Oral Presentation Award at The 29th Annual and International Meeting of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology (JAACT 2016).

B. S., M. S., and Ph. D. degree from school of Chemical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1973, 1975, and 1985. His career includes: RIKEN (Research Scientist from 1977), University of Illinois (Visiting Researcher from 1988), RIKEN (Vice Senior Research Scientist from 1992), the University of Tokyo (Professor from 1993). Dr. Nagamune is the winner of the 25th Ichimura Award (1993), The SCEJ Award (Tamaki Medal) (2002), Ichimura Prize, IUPAC Fellow on Biotechnology, The SCEJ Award (Ikeda Medal) (2014), etc.

The target of the research group is to invent applications in the field of medical engineering by applying gene engineering, protein engineering, enzyme engineering, etc to biomolecules such as cells or proteins.

Ryo Yoshida, Ph. D.

Dr. Ryo Yoshida is a full professor at The University of Tokyo. He received a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering in 1993 from Waseda University, Japan. He was a research associate at Tokyo Women’s Medical University in 1993, a researcher at the National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research from 1994–1997, and an assistant professor at University of Tukuba from 1997–2000. In 2001, he moved to The University of Tokyo as an associate professor and became a full professor in 2012. He won the Society of Polymer Science, Japan Wiley Award in 2009.

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