My name is Shiori Sekine. On October 1, 2025, I was appointed as a Professor to the Laboratory of Organelle Signaling in the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kyoto University. After graduating from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tokyo in 2006, I earned my Master’s and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the same university. I then continued my research there for about five years as Assistant Professor. In 2016, I moved to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States as a postdoctoral fellow. Since 2019, I have been leading my independent laboratory at the Aging Institute, University of […]

My name is ZHU Chengyuan. I was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Drug Delivery Research in July 2025. In 2017, I graduated with my bachelor’s degree from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Zhejiang University in China. In 2018, I joined Kyoto University’s Department of Drug Delivery Research to study drug delivery systems and completed my master’s and PhD there. After graduation, I worked at a pharmaceutical venture capital firm, investing in innovative drugs for unmet clinical needs from pre-IND through clinical stages. That role taught me what it takes to turn lab findings into real medicines. Now I’ve returned to the same department, researching how to control […]

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My name is TOYA Mika. I have been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Histogenetic Dynamics starting from the 2025 academic year. After graduating from the Department of Chemical and Biological Science, Faculty of Science at Japan Women’s University, I spent several years working in industry before deciding to return to the path of becoming a researcher. Although my path was not a conventional one, I was fortunate to receive guidance and support from excellent mentors and colleagues, and in 2001, I obtained a PhD (Doctor of Science) under the supervision of Professor Masayuki Yamamoto at the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo. Following this, I […]

Dr. YANAGAWA Masataka Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology Appointed April 1, 2025. I earned my Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University in 2006, followed by a Ph.D. in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Yoshinori Shichida. My doctoral research focused on the “Activation Mechanism of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors.” I subsequently completed postdoctoral research on “Thermal activation of rhodopsin and cone pigments” in Prof. Shichida’s laboratory. In 2013, I joined RIKEN as a Special Postdoctoral Researcher under Prof. Yasushi Sako, where I developed innovative methods for evaluating drug effects based on single-molecule dynamics of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in living cells. From 2023 to early […]

I am UECHI Hiroyuki, appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Histogenetic Dynamics, starting from the 2025 academic year. In 2015, I obtained my Ph.D. from the laboratory of Professor Shigeo Murata at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo. My research focused on the ubiquitin-proteasome system, one of the intracellular protein degradation pathways. Subsequently, I studied epithelial tissue morphogenesis at the RIKEN (Kobe) and the Graduate School of Life Sciences at Tohoku University. Following these periods, I moved to Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, where I engaged in research on intracellular phase separation – the phenomenon where […]

My name is IKEDA Hiroaki, and I have been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of System Chemotherapy and Molecular Sciences, effective April 1, 2025. I completed both my Master’s and Doctoral programs under the supervision of Professor Masaya Imoto at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, obtaining my Ph.D. (Doctor of Science) in July 2020. Since April 2020, I have had the privilege of working as a Research Staff member in this same Department of System Chemotherapy and Molecular Sciences here at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University. Throughout my academic career, starting from my student years, I have consistently engaged in […]