Cell Biology
Hisakazu Mihara
Professor
Chemical BiologyPeptide Engineering
Biography
Hisakazu Mihara received his Doctor of Science degree in chemistry from Kyushu University under the direction of N. Izumiya in 1986. He was a postdoctoral fellow in E. T. Kaiser’s group at the Rockefeller University, New York (1986-1988). He was appointed as an assistant professor in applied chemistry at Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1988 and was promoted to an associate professor in applied chemistry at Nagasaki University in 1993 and in bioengineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1995. He was a professor in Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2005-2015). Currently, he is a professor and dean of School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016-2020). His research interests include peptide design and synthesis, de novo design of functional peptides including self-assembling peptides for biomaterials and peptide biochips, and peptide-phage display technology for drug design and peptide probes.
Expectations for WRHI
Expanding the research hub in life sciences
| 2020- | Vice president for strategic initiative, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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| 2016-2020 | Dean, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2016- | Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2015-2016 | Dean, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2005-2016 | Professor, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 1995-2005 | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 1993-1995 | Associate Professor, Nagasaki University |
| 1988-1993 | Assistant Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology |
| 1986-1988 | Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University |
| 2021 | Japanese Peptide Society Award |
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| 2015 | Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work |
| 2011 | Award for Good Education, Tokyo Tech |
| 2009 | Award of Japan Bioindustry Association |
| 2005 | Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) |
| 2001 | Teshima Memorial Award for Research |
| 2019 | Fukunaga, H. Tsutsumi, H. Mihara, Self-Assembling Peptides as Building Blocks of Functional Materials for Biomedical Applications, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 92, 391-399 (2019) |
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| 2018 | Syahir, K. Kajikawa, H. Mihara, Signal Enhancement Strategies for Refractive Index-Sensitive Nanobiosensor, Protein Peptide Lett., 25, 34-41 (2018) |
| 2017 | I.V. Chang, H.Tsutsumi, H. Mihara, Screening for Concanavalin A Binders from a Mannose-modified alpha-Helix Peptide Phage Library, Mol. BioSyst., 13, 2222-2225 (2017) |
| 2016 | K. Fukunaga, H. Tsutsumi, H. Mihara, Cell Differentiation on Disk- and String-Shaped Hydrogels Fabricated From Ca2+-Responsive Self-Assembling Peptides, Biopolymers, 106, 476-483 (2016) |
| 2015 | H. Tsutsumi, K. Nakano, H. Mihara, Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitory Peptides Screened from a Structured Designed beta-Loop Peptide Library Displayed on Phage, Mol. BioSyst., 11, 2713-2716 (2015) |
| 2014 | H.J. Park, H. Tsutsumi, H. Mihara, Cell-selective Intracellular Drug Delivery Using Doxorubicin and alpha-Helical Peptides Conjugated to Gold Nanoparticles, Biomaterials, 35, 3480-3487 (2014) |