D., Pharmacist, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. He is a founding member of LIVERNESS. After completing his doctoral studies, he worked as an assistant professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Science, Kitasato University, and an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, before being appointed and concurrently serving as a specially-appointed associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University in 2015, and as a professor of advanced pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University in 2018. While conducting research and development, he is a researcher involved in launching joint research projects with universities and research institutions and supporting the establishment of research institutes.

Born in Beppu City, Oita Prefecture. Studied abroad during his master's program at Kumamoto University Graduate School. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Center for Global Natural Products Science attached to the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University. Since 2017, as a project manager and researcher of UpRod, Kumamoto University's natural products manufacturing project, he has conducted 100 company interviews with pharmaceutical and food companies, and is also conducting his own research on nematode worms. He is also working hard to implement the results of his research on nematodes in society.

Professor, Chemical Biotechnology Program, Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kagoshima University. He specializes in glycobiochemistry and nanobiotechnology. He has established a method for detecting a minute amount of virus from saliva, which is 1/1,000,000 of a conventional simple test kit, using his unique sugar chain nanoparticles, and has succeeded in developing a test kit that can simultaneously measure three types of viruses: influenza (type A and type B) and new coronas. In September 2006, he launched Sudix Biotech Co., Ltd. to develop and market kits and PCR equipment that enable nucleic acid genetic testing (PCR testing) of viruses to be performed quickly and easily anywhere.

B.S., Chemistry, The University of Tokyo. Doctor of Science, Kyushu University. After working in the Research and Development Department of the National Institute of Biochemistry and Serotherapy (KAKETSUKEN), where he was mainly involved in the research and development of pharmaceuticals using genetic recombination technology, he was appointed to his current position in 2015. In July 2018, he transferred from KAKETSUKEN to his current position at KM Biologics.