Daisuke Takahashi, PhD

Executive Specialist at Ajinomoto Co. Inc.

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He graduated from Nihon University and earned his Ph.D. from Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 2012. After joining AJINOMOTO Co., Inc., he worked as a process chemist specializing in amino acids and nucleosides derivatives, heterocyclic chemistry. To date, he has published over 10 scientific papers and applied more than 50 patents. He began his research in peptide chemistry in 2005 and is the originator of AJIPHASE^® technology, which combines the strengths of both solid-phase and liquid-phase chemistry for peptides and oligonucleotides. He was awarded the International Symposium on Process Chemistry Award in 2011. Currently, he oversees technology in peptide and oligonucleotide chemistry at AJINOMOTO.