Professor/Senior Staff/Dean

KUDO Masatoshi

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Professor Kudo has been a member of the ILCA (International Liver Cancer Association) Governing Board since 2009 and president of Kindai University Medical Center since 2008. He has published over 600 international scientific peer review papers in well-regarded journals and 800-plus scientific papers in Japan-based publications.

Professor/Senior Staff

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/Manager

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.