Akimitsu Okamoto

Co-founder & Director, TKG Therapeutics and Professor at The University of Tokyo

Speaker

AO obtained his PhD in synthetic chemistry and biological chemistry
from Kyoto University in 1998, where he was appointed Assistant
Professor in 1999 after a year as a postdoctoral fellow at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He moved to RIKEN as an
initiative research scientist (unit leader) in 2006. AO joined the
faculty at the University of Tokyo in 2012 as Professor. His research
focuses on the design, synthesis, and physical properties of new,
manmade biopolymers with various functionalities, and the design of
unique organic chemical systems for recognizing, transforming, and
visualizing a single component or atom in biopolymers of interest.