Kazunori kataoka biography

Kazunori Kataoka

Affiliated Society: Japanese Society for Biomaterials
Country of Residence: Japan
Current Position: Director General

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Dr. Kazunori Kataoka is a Senior Vice-President and a Director General of Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM), Kawasaki Institute of Industry Promotion. He is also a Professor at Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The University of Tokyo.

He received his () in Organic Chemistry, () and Ph.D. () in Polymer Chemistry from The University of Tokyo.  He started his academic career at Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Women_Ñés Medical College as Assistant Professor () and was promoted to Associate Professor in He moved to Department of Materials Engineering, Tokyo University of Science in as Associate Professor and was promoted to full Professor in He joined Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo in as full Professor. He was appointed joint-position of full Professor at Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, The University of Toyo Medical School in In , he took mandatory retirement from Graduate School of Engineering/Graduate School of Medicine, The Univers

In response to the progress of bioscience in recent years, growing attention has been paid to the materials, named biomaterials, that interact with a living body or its composition elements like proteins or the cells, and so on. Many of such biomaterials were already put to practical use with the high-tech devices as central materials, such as artificial organs, drug delivery system and biosensors. In addition, the research and development of new biomaterials are actively carried out all around the world, e.g the material whose structures and functions are changed responding to external stimuli (Intelligent materials) or those who are guiding the proliferation and differentiation of the cells.
by Kazunori Kataoka From 'Biomaterial Engineering' (Publisher, Shokabo)

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Prof. Kazunori Kataoka

University of Tokyo, Japan

Professor Kazunori Kataoka is one of the world's leading polymer chemists, having developed specific polymers for biomedical applications. His nano-transporters are remarkable as they are based on long-chain molecules, i.e., polymers, which are used for the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to tumors and for the transport of genetic material in gene therapy. He is a pioneer of a new concept in which the drug is enclosed in micelles. These are aggregates of specially developed polymers. It is possible to specifically guide these nano-transporters to affected tissues or organs. For this purpose, they need to circulate in the blood for a relatively long time so that they eventually accumulate in tumor tissue. Several differently designed polymer micelles that Kataoka has developed for cancer therapy are currently in clinical trials in various countries, including the UK and France. Some of these polymer agents are close to actual application. This would confirm the ultimate breakthrough of this concept.


(fltr) GRC Director Professor Matthias Neubert, Professor Kazunori Kataoka, winner of the Gutenberg Research Award, and U

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Kazunori Kataoka

Director General Laboratory Head


Education

B. Eng. in Organic Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
in Polymer Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry, The University of Tokyo

Antecedents

Assistant, The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Women fs Medical College
Associate Professor, The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Women fs Medical College
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering at Tokyo University of Science
Visiting Professor, University of Paris XIII, France
Professor, Department of Materials Engineering at Tokyo University of Science
Visiting Professor, University of Paris XIII, France
Professor of Biomaterials at Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Adjunct Director, The Biomaterials Center at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
Professor, The Division of Clinical Biotechnology at the Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo.
Director, Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo
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