Start-Up Workshop Panelist
Hiroaki Suga
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Start-Up Workshop Panelist
Hiroaki Suga is a Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science in the University of Tokyo. He was born in Okayama City, Japan in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (1986) and Master of Engineering (1989) from Okayama University, and Ph. D. in Chemistry (1994) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After three years of post-doctoral work in Massachusetts General Hospital, he was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the State University of New York at Buffalo (1997) and promoted to the tenured Associate Professor (2002). In 2003, he moved to the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology in the University of Tokyo as an Associate Professor, and soon after he was promoted to Full Professor. In 2010, he changed his affiliation to the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science. His research interests are in the field of bioorganic chemistry, chemical biology and biotechnology related to RNA, translation, peptides and pseudo-natural products. He is the recipient of Akabori Memorial Award 2014, Japanese Peptide Society, Max-Bergmann Gold Medal 2016, Nagoya Medal Silver 2017, and Vincent du Vigneaud Award 2019. He is also a founder of PeptiDream Inc. Tokyo, a publicly traded company in the Tokyo First Stock Exchange Market, which has many partnerships with pharmaceutical companies in worldwide. He resigned the Board of Directors of PeptiDream in June, 2018. He is also a founder of MiraBiologics Inc. and the Board of Directors since 2017.