Shiroh Futaki
Born in 1959 and Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan in 1989. Following his appointment as a Research Associate and an Associate Professor at the University of Tokushima, he moved to Kyoto University in 1997 as an Associate Professor. Meanwhile, he spent 16 months (1989-1991) in the US as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biochemistry, Rockefeller University. He has been a Professor of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, since 2005, and now a Specially Appointed Professor at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University. His research interests include design of bioactive peptides having unique functions (cell penetration, membrane structural organization, and so on). He has published more than 290 original papers and 50 reviews (h-index=76).
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