Torao Ishida is an Honorary Professor at Suzuka University of Medical Science, a Member of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Director of the Japanese Society of Medicinal Dietetics. Educational background: 1970, Ph.D., School of Science, Graduate School of the University of Tokyo. Work experience: 1962–1998, Member of Asahi Chemical Industry Co. Ltd., Director General of the Institute of Life Science from 1990; 1998–2019, Director, Councilor, and Professor of Suzuka University of Medical Science. Research interests: anticancer drug development, medical biology, and immunology. Memberships of professional societies and awards received: Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, the Japanese Society of Medicinal Dietetics; 1996, Asahi Prize, Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation; 1997, Person of Invention Research Merit, Tokyo Metropolitan Government; 2007, Science and Technology Prize, Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Commendation; Special Prize by Asahi Kasei Co.; the Prize of the Chairman of the Joint Meeting of the 11th Japanese Association for Alternative, Complementary and Traditional Medicine and the 7th Japanese Medical Treatment Society; 2009, the International AMS Awards of the Symposium on Acupuncture and Meridian Studies 2009.