Takashi Sato, PhD

Chief Scientist & Technical Architect, Life Science Product Division at Rigaku Corporation

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Dr. Takashi SATO is a Chief Scientist and Technical Architect of the Life Science Product Division of Rigaku Corporation, a long-established company in X-ray analytical instruments, primarily well-known in laboratory protein crystallography and devices for synchrotron beamlines. He is currently leading the R&D of EDT and MAXS technologies for 3D analysis of therapeutic biomolecules to connect the unmet needs of state-of-the-art technology to the fields where it is entirely unfamiliar with the tech. His works are firmly based on the users' point of view with his decades of experience as a university professor and company researcher in protein science, biophysics, organic chemistry, basic biology, and medicinal sciences, especially pathology, physiology, and obstetrics/gynecology.