Hiroshi Ueda, Ph.D.

Education

B.S. Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, March 1986.
M.S. As above, March 1988.
Ph.D. As above, December 1992.

Work History

Research Associate: Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, July 1991-July 1997.
Lecturer: Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, July 1997- December 2000.
Visiting Researcher: Centre for Protein Engineering, Medical Research Council, Cambridge UK, March 1998-March 2000. (Sir Dr. Gregory Winter's Lab)
Associate Professor: Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, January 2001-May 2003.
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, May 2003 - Jan 2013.
Project Associate Professor (co): Department of Bioengineering (Donated chair), October 2006 - October 2009.
PRESTO-JST (co): October 2004 - March 2008.

Professor: Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, February, 2013 ~

Misc

Degree PhD. (Engineering)

Specialized subjects
Protein engineering of antibody and other molecules with the aim of biosensing, Immunoassay, Combinatorial technology, Bioluminescence both in basic and applied aspects, Animal cell technology

Awards
Promotion Award from the Society of Chemical Engineers in Japan, March 1995, Osaka.
Japanese Ramsay Memorial Fellowship for 1997-99, March 1997.
Research Award from the Society of Chemical Engineers in Japan, March 2002, Fukuoka.
Visiting Lecturer of the Chemistry Research Promotion Center, Taiwan, July 2009.
Hot Paper Award, Analytical Sciences, September 2009, 2012, 2013.
Biosensors 2012 Best Paper Award Runner-up, May 2012.
Nagase Science and Technology Promotion Award, April 2014.
25th Excellent Paper Award of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan, 2017.
Takeda International Service Award, November, 2017.

Academic society membership
The Society for Biotechnology, Japan (Delegate, East Japan Branch Committee member) / The Japanese Biochemical Society (Councillor) / Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan / The Molecular Biology Society of Japan / Protein Science Society of Japan

Research society membership
Biochemical Assay Society of Japan (President) / Japanese Society of Enzyme Engineering (Vice President) / Japan Association for Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence

Motto

If you do it seriously, everything is interesting.