Hiroyuki Osada
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
Biography
Dr. Hiroyuki Osada has received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He joined RIKEN in 1983 and he became a Deputy Director of RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science from 2013. He discovered KGF/FGF7 when he studied with Dr. S.A. Aaronson in NCI, Bethesda, USA as a visiting scientist (1985-86). As a head of the Antibiotics Laboratory, RIKEN, he discovered many novel bioactive compounds (reveromycin, tryprostatin, etc) from microorganisms. He is serving as an editorial board or advisary member to international journals (Cancer Science, Journal of Antibiotics, ACS Chemical Biology, etc). He is the president of the Society for Actinomycetes, Japan and the Japanese Association for Molecular Target Therapy of Cancer. He received many prestigious awards including the Inhoffen Award (2015). He is the author and co-author of over 350 publications and books (Bioprobes, Protein Targeting with Small Molecules, etc).
Abstract
Abstract : Screening of novel antimalarial agents in RIKEN NPDepo
