Dr. Takeshi Wada, PhD

Professor of Organic Chemistry at Tokyo University of Science

Speaker

Takeshi Wada is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at Tokyo University of Science in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is also a founder and scientific adviser of Wave Life Sciences. In 2018, he received the Society Award of the Nucleic Acids Therapeutics Society of Japan (NatsJ). He served as the President of the Japan Society of Nucleic Acids Chemistry (JSNAC) from 2020 to 2024. In 2023, he co-founded and serves as a scientific advisor to ANRis Inc., a new venture developing RNAi therapeutics. Since 2024, he has also been a Specially Appointed Professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo.