Professor/Senior Staff

KUDO Masatoshi

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Professor Kudo has been a member of the ILCA (International Liver Cancer Association) Governing Board since 2009 and is a past president of APPLE (Asia-Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Expert Association). He has published over 1,100 international scientific peer-reviewed papers in well-regarded journals. He received a Highly Cited Researchers award in the Clinical Medicine category from Clarivate Analytics in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Professor

DOTERA Tomonari

Physics

Professor Dotera specializes in condensed matter physics and does research on soft matter quasicrystals. He has created several complex Archimedean tiling patterns in polymer, and showed evidence of a 'polymeric quasicrystal' tiling for the first time. In 2014, his paper clarifying the origin of unusual non-periodic ordering that defines soft matter quasicrystals was published in Nature.

Professor

SUGIURA Reiko

Molecular Pharmacogenomics and Drug Discovery

Professor Sugiura is a pioneer researcher on the identification of regulatory factors of MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) and the elucidation of its control mechanisms. Along with her distinguished work as a scientist and a medical doctor, she is developing a groundbreaking strategy to combat cancer on a molecular-targeted basis. She currently serves as a research project leader for the Strategic Research Foundation, which is supported by the Japanese government.