Kazunori Kataoka

Director General／Laboratory Head

Education

1974

B. Eng. in Organic Chemistry, The University of Tokyo

1976

M.Eng. in Polymer Chemistry, The University of Tokyo

1979

Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry, The University of Tokyo

Antecedents

1979

Assistant, The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Women’s Medical College

1986

Associate Professor, The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Women’s Medical College

1989

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering at Tokyo University of Science

1992

Visiting Professor, University of Paris XIII, France

1994

Professor, Department of Materials Engineering at Tokyo University of Science

1996

Visiting Professor, University of Paris XIII, France

1998

Professor of Biomaterials at Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan

2001-2004

Adjunct Director, The Biomaterials Center at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan

2004

Professor, The Division of Clinical Biotechnology at the Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo.

2005

Director, Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo

2006

Associate Member, Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

2008

Director, Global COE Program“Center for Medical System Innovation”

2008

Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximillians University (LMU), Munich, Germany

2009

Core-Researcher, Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST)

2010

Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University, Hanzhou, China

2011

Member, The engineering academy of japan

2012

Honorary Professor, Sichuan University, China

2013

Research Leader, Center of Open Innovation Network for Smart Health (COINS)

2014

Member, Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

2015

Director General, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM)

2015

A Part-Time Professor at Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of North Carolina, USA

2016

Specially-appointed Professor, Policy Alternative Research Institute, The University of Tokyo

Director, Biomedical Institute for Convergence at SKKU (BICS), Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

2018

Visiting Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

2019

Project Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo

Award

1993

Japanese Society for Biomaterials

1994

Outstanding Paper Award of the Controlled Release Society

2000

Award of the Society of Polymer Science

2005

Clemson Award : Society for Biomaterials

2006

Barré Award, University of Montreal

2006

Latta Lectureship Award : Nanobiotechnology-based Pharmaceutics in the Medical Frontier, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

2008

Founder’s Award : Controlled Release Society

2009

NIMS Award, National Institute of Materials Science, Japan

2010

The Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category), The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)

2011

Distinguished Lectureship Award (University of Waterloo, Canada)

2012

Humboldt Research Award

2012

Leo Esaki Prize

2014

2014 SPSJ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science and Technology, Society of Polymer Science, Japan

2014

Lifetime Achievement Award (Journal of Drug Targeting)
▶ In honour of Professor Kazunori Kataoka, recipient of the Journal of Drug Targeting's Life-time Achievement Award for 2014

2015

Gutenberg Research Award
▶ 2015 - Prof. Kazunori Kataoka and Prof. Kwok Pui Lan
▶ ChemistryOpen：Gutenberg Research Award Goes to Kataoka
▶ ChemMedChem：Kazunori Kataoka Receives Gutenberg Research Award
▶ YouTube: Gutenberg Research College welcomes new members and bestows the 2015 Gutenberg Research Award

2016

Louis W. Busse Lectureship Award (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)

2017

Foreign Member, United States National Academy of Engineering (USA)

2017

H. C. Brown Lectureship Award (Purdue University, Indiana, USA)

2017

Fellow, United States National Academy of Inventors (NAI)

2023

The 2023 Biomaterials Global Impact Award

Society

2004 - 2006

Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE)

1999

Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

2012 - 2013

President of the Controlled Release Society

Editor

He has more than 400 publications and is on the editorial board of sixteen international journals. He is Editor of Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, Associate Editor of Biomacromolecules (American Chemical Society), Associate Editor of Biomaterials and ACS Nano (American Chemical Society). His current major research interest is supramolecular materials for nanobiotechnology, particularly focusing on gene and drug delivery.