People

Staff

Associate Professor

Kazuya KANEMOTO

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Career

• 2011. 3:        M. Sc. (Engineering)
  Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
  (Supervisors: Prof. Norio Miyaura and Assistant Prof. Yasunori Yamamoto)
• 2011. 4 – 2018. 4: Astellas Pharma Inc.
• 2018. 3: Ph. D. (Engineering)
  Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences,
  Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  (Supervisors: Prof. Takamitsu Hosoya and Associate Prof. Suguru Yoshida)
• 2018. 5: Assistant Professor
  Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering
  Tokyo Medical and Dental University
• 2019. 4: Assistant Professor
  Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering
  Chuo University
• 2022. 3: Assistant Professor
  Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University
• 2025. 2: Lecturer (Junior Associate Professor)
  Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University
• 2025. 9: Project Associate Professor
  Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Institute of Science Tokyo
• 2025. 10: JST FOREST Researcher (concurrent appointment)
• 2026. 4: Associate Professor (PI)
  Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Institute of Science Tokyo

Awards

• 2025 Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan)
• 2025 Dean’s Award for Top Young Research Paper, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University
• 2025 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University
• 2024 Certificate for a Special Lecture by a Young Scholar (The Chemical Society of Japan)
• 2020 Meiji Seika Pharma Research Planning Award (The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan)
• 2017 15th IBB BioFuture Research Encouragement Prize, Doctoral Course Division, Grand Prize (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)

Research Funding (Principal Investigator Only)

• JST FOREST Program (FY2025–FY2032)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (FY2025–FY2027)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (FY2022–FY2023)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (FY2020–FY2021)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (FY2019–FY2020)

• Takeda Science Foundation, Pharmaceutical Research Grants (FY2025–FY2029)
• Tohoku University–AIST Matching Research Support Program (FY2024)
• Kobayashi Foundation, Research Grant (FY2024–FY2026)
• The Noguchi Institute, the Shitagau Noguchi Research Grant (FY2024)
• Pharmaceutical Research Promotion Foundation, Research Grant (FY2023–FY2024)
• Novartis Research Grant (FY2023)
• The Uehara Memorial Foundation, Research Incentive Grant (FY2022)
• Takahashi Industrial and Economic Research Foundation, Research Grant (FY2021–FY2022)
• Meiji Seika Pharma Research Planning Award, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (FY2021–FY2022)
• Tokyo Biochemical Research Foundation, Research Encouragement Grant-I (FY2021)
• Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation, Research Grant (FY2020–FY2021)

Students

Scheduled to join the laboratory in April 2026