Education and Academic Professional Experience
1974 B.S., Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo
1980 Ph.D., Department of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo
1980 Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Assistant Professor
1996 Associate Professor
1982–1985 Visiting Scientist, c/o Dr. Alexander Bloch, Grace Cancer Drug, Center, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York
1997–2017 Professor, Division of Pharmacology, Meikai University School of Dentistry
2017 Director and Professor, Meikai University Research Institute of Odontology
Present Positions
2014–Present Director of the Board of Trustees, Meikai University
2014–Present Director of the Board of Trustees, Asahi University
Editorial Boards
1992–Present In Vivo
2020– Editor-in-Chief, Medicines
Grant Awards
1991–1992 A grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan (General Research C) “Mechanism of antiviral activity induction by newly synthesized lignin having anti-HIV activity": (Principal Investigator, No. 03807149).
1993–1994 A grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan (General Research C)
2020–2022 Elucidation of mechanism of tumor-specific cytotoxicity of chromone derivatives against malignant cells.(I)