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Biography

Hiroaki Suga is a Professor of 乐天堂app下载 Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science at 乐天堂app下载 University of Tokyo. He was born in Okayama City, Japan in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (1986) and Master of Engineering (1989) from Okayama University, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1994) from 乐天堂app下载 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After three years of post-doctoral work at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 乐天堂app下载 Department of Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 State University of New York at Buffalo (1997) and promoted to tenured Associate Professor (2002). In 2003, he moved to 乐天堂app下载 Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at 乐天堂app下载 University of Tokyo as an Associate Professor, and soon after he was promoted to Full Professor. In 2010, he changed his affiliation to 乐天堂app下载 Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science.

His research interests are in 乐天堂app下载 field of bioorganic chemistry, chemical biology and biotechnology related to RNA, translation, and peptides. He is also a founder of PeptiDream Inc. Tokyo, a publicly traded company at 乐天堂app下载 first section of 乐天堂app下载 Tokyo Stock Exchange, which has many partnerships with pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Nowadays, Professor Suga is serving a two-year term as President of . He has received many awards in Japan and Max-Bergmann Medal 2016.

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