Nov. 24, 2024 Updated
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 fs Medical College
- 1986
- Associate Professor, The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Women fs 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 gCenter for Medical System Innovation h
- 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 fs 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 FGutenberg Research Award Goes to Kataoka
▶ ChemMedChem FKazunori 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
- 2023 Highly Cited Researcher in Clarivate Analytics (Web of Scinece)
- 2024
- 2024 Highly Cited Researcher in Clarivate Analytics (Web of Scinece)
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.