Introduction of Institute Members

Division of Rare Sugar Production

Enzyme/Gene Resource

Izumori, Ken Research Adviser & Professor Emeritus	Akimitsu, Kazuya Vice Director & Professor
Yoshihara, Akihide Assistant Director & Associate Professor	Mochizuki, Susumu Associate Professor
Kato, Shiro Associate Professor

Biochemistry

Kamitori, Shigehiro Director of LSRC & Professor	Yoshida, Hiromi Associate Professor
Nakakita, Shinichi Associate Professor

Sugar Organic Chemistry

George Fleet
Visiting Professor

Lingbing Kong
Associate Professor

Division of Application Development

Physical Sciences

Fukada, Kazuhiro Professor	Ishii, Tomohiko Professor
Takao, Hidekuni Director of Micro-Nano Structure Device Integrated Research Center & Professor	Kakegawa, Hisao Professor
Okazaki, Shinichiro Associate Professor	Terao, Kyohei Associate Professor
Isoda, Kyosuke Associate Professor

Molecular Tool Development

Hoshino, Katsuaki Professor	Kadowaki, Norimitsu Professor
Kuwahara, Tomomi Professor	Sugimoto, Mikio Professor
Suzuma, Kiyoshi Professor	Nishiyama, Akira Professor
Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Professor	Fujiwara, Yuichiro Professor
Masaki, Tsutomu Professor	Minamino, Tetsuo Professor
Miyake,Keisuke Professor	Kurahara, Rin Associate Professor
Taoka, Rikiya Assistant Professor

Clinical Trial

Murao, Koji Professor	Imachi, Hitomi Associate Professor
Kobayashi, Toshihiro Assistant Professor

Microbial Sciences

Sakuraba, Haruhiko Professor	Akimitsu, Kazuya Vice Director & Professor
Takata, Goro Professor	Morimoto, Kenji Professor
Yoshihara, Akihide Assistant Director & Associate Professor	Kato, Shiro Associate Professor
Mochizuki, Susumu Associate Professor

Animal Sciences

Sato, Masashi Professor	Ito, Fuminori Professor
Tsukamoto, Ikuko Professor	Hoshikawa, Hiroshi Professor
Miyake, Minoru Professor	Ueno, Masaki Professor
Okano, Keiichi Professor	Arai, Meiji Associate Professor
Kawasaki, Kiyonori Associate Professor	Sugiyama, Yasunori Associate Professor
Yanagida, Ryo Associate Professor	Kumamoto, Kensuke Associate Professor
Kamitori, Kazuyo Assistant Professor	Hanaki, Yusuke Assistant Professor
Miyai, Yumi Assistant Professor

Plant Sciences

Akimitsu, Kazuya Vice Director & Professor	Kataoka, Ikuo Director & Board of Trustee
Fukai, Seiichi Professor	Takamura, Takejiro Professor
Nomura, Mika Professor	Ichimura, Kazuya Professor
Gomi, Kenji Professor

Food Sciences

Ogawa, Masahiro Professor	Matsuo, Tatsuhiro Professor
Kawamura, Osamu Professor	Tamura, Hirotoshi Professor
Morimoto, Kenji Professor	Yonekura, Lina Professor
Ishii, Toya Assistant Professor

Teaching Material Development

Kitabayashi, Masahiro Professor	Yamashita, Naoko Professor
Komori, Hirofumi Professor	Shinohara, Wataru Professor
Miyake, Takashi Associate Professor

Division of Global Outreach

International Research Cooperation

Takagi, Yumiko Professor	Wada, Kenji Professor
Hirao, Tomohiro Professor	Ogawa, Masahiro Professor
Tamura, Hirotoshi Professor	Miyatake, Nobuyuki Associate Professor

Division of Social Collaboration and Intellectual Property

Nagatomi, Taichi
Director of the Center for Industry-Academia Collaboration and Intellectual Property & Associate Professor

2022 International Institute of Rare Sugar Research and Education Steering Committee

Affiliation	Titles	Division	Field	Name
Board of Trustee	Director			Kataoka, Ikuo
Agriculture	Vice Director			Akimitsu, Kazuya
IIRSRE	Assistant Director			Yoshihara, Akihide
Agriculture	Research Adviser			Izumori, Ken
Research Facility Center for Science and Technology	Director of LSRC & Professor	Rare Sugar Production	Biochemistry	Kamitori, Shigehiro
Agriculture	Vice Director	ibid	Enzyme/Gene Resource	Akimitsu, Kazuya
Agriculture	Professor	Application Development	Physical Science	Fukada, Kazuhiro
Medicine	Professor	ibid	Molecular Tool Development	Hoshino, Katsuaki
Medicine	Professor	ibid	Clinical Trial	Murao, Koji
Agriculture	Professor	ibid	Microbial Sciences	Sakuraba, Haruhiko
Agriculture	Professor	ibid	Animal Sciences	Sato, Masashi
Agriculture	Vice Director	ibid	Plant Sciences	Akimitsu, Kazuya
Agriculture	Professor	ibid	Food Sciences	Ogawa, Masahiro
Education	Professor	ibid	Teaching Material Development	Kitabayashi, Masahiro
Education	Professor	Global Outreach	International Research Cooperation	Takagi, Yumiko
Center for Industry-Academia Collaboration and Intellectual Property	Director of CCIP & Associate Professor	Social Collaboration and Intellectual Property		Nagatomi, Taichi
Academic Office	Director			Maekawa, Toyohiro