Hiroaki Suga, Ph.D.
Professor
Education
- 1986:
- B.Sc., Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University
Thesis advisor: Prof. Sigeru Torii - 1987-19XX:
- Department of Chemistry, University of Lausanne
Thesis advisor: Prof. Manfred Schlossor - 1989:
- M.Sc., Graduate School of Engineering, Okayama University
Thesis advisor: Prof. Sigeru Torii - 1994:
- Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis advisor: Prof. Satoru Masamune
Professional career
- 1994-1997:
- Postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Advisor: Prof. Jack W. Szostak - 1997-2002:
- Assistant professor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- 2002-2003:
- Associate professor (tenured), University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- 2003-2005:
- Associate professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
- 2005-2010:
- Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
- 2010-present:
- Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Editor and Editorial Board
- ・Advisory Editor, Angewandte Chemie, Wiley
- ・Chair of the Editorial Board, RSC Chemical Biology, Royal Chemical Society
- ・Associate Editor, Cell Chemical Biology (formally Chemistry and Biology) Cell Press, Elsevier (2011–2019)
- ・Advisory Board, Royal Chemical Review, Royal Chemical Society
- ・Editorial Board Member, Biotechnology Journal, Wiley-VHC (2009–2012)
- ・Editor, Chemistry and Biology, Cell Press
- ・Regional editor, Bioorganic Chemistry, ELSEVIER
- ・Editorial Advisory Board, ACS Chemical Biology, ACS
- ・Editorial Board, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, Elsevier
- ・Editorial Advisory Board, ChemBioChem, Wiley-VCH
- ・Editorial Board, The Chemical Record, Wiley-VCH
Honors and Awards
- 2024:
- WARF Therapeutics lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- 2024:
- Merck-University of Chicago Lectureship, University of Chicago, USA
- 2024:
- Japan Academy Award (Gakushiin-sho), The Japan Academy
- 2024:
- Iwao Ojima Distinguished Lectureship, SUNY Stony Brook University, USA
- 2023:
- Van’t Hoff Award Lectureship, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, Netherlands
- 2023:
- Nelson J. Leonard Distinguished Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- 2023:
- Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Foundation, Israel
- 2022:
- Hisayuki Matsuo Award, NPO Japan Hormone Station, Japan
- 2022:
- The Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2022:
- Prelog Lecture (announced in 2020), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 2022:
- T.Y. Shen Lecture (announced in 2020), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- 2019:
- Bohlmann Lecture 2019, Berlin Technical University, Germany
- 2019:
- The Vincent du Vigneaud Award 2019, American Peptide Society, USA
- 2019:
- R. U. Lemieux Lecture on Biotechnology, University of Alberta, Canada
- 2017:
- Nagoya Medal Silver 2017, Japan
- 2016:
- Japan Innovator Award 2016, Japan
- 2016:
- Max-Bergmann Medal 2016, Germany
- 2016:
- Yomiuri Techno-Forum Gold Medal 2016 (April 22nd), Japan
- 2015:
- The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Prizes for Science and Technology, Japan
- 2014:
- Akabori Memorial Award 2014, Japanese Peptide Society, Japan
- 2013:
- Lilly Distinguished Lecturer at Colorado State University, USA
- 2013:
- Award of The Chemical Society of Japan for Creative Work, Japan
- 2012:
- Boehringer Ingelheim Lectureship at Montreal University, Canada
- 2012:
- President Award of Science Council of Japan for New Inventions in Government-Industry-Academic Relation, Cabinet Office, Japan
Contact Info
- Room #0215, East wing, Chemistry Bildg.
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo - E-mail… hsuga"at"chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (change "at" to @)
- TEL…+81-3-5841-8372
- FAX…+81-3-5841-8372