Itaru Hamachi
Kyoto University
Biography
I was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1960 and received my Ph.D. in 1988 from Kyoto University under the guidance of the late Professor Iwao Tabushi. Immediately thereafter I joined Kyushu University, where I worked as an Assistant Professor for three years in the Kunitake laboratory before I became an Associate Professor in the Shinkai laboratory in 1992.
In 2001, I was promoted to Full Professor at IFOC, Kyushu University, and moved to Kyoto University in 2005 where I currently head the bioorganic chemistry wing.
I have been a PRESTO investigator for 7 years (from 2000 to 2006) and a team leader of two CREST projects (from 2008 to 2013 and then from 2013 to 2018), which are all supported by the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency. My research group targets challenges in chemical biology with specific expertise in live-cell organic chemistry, chemical biology, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, and supramolecular biomaterials.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, ChemComm
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