Noritada Kaji's Biography

Noritada Kaji, Associate Professor, Nagoya University

Dr. Noritada Kaji is an associate professor of the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan. He obtained a Bachelor degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2000 and Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the University of Tokushima, Japan. In his PhD study, he developed Nanopillar Chips that were a state-of-the-art µTAS combined with nano-fabricated structures for DNA analysis. After his postdoctoral research, he started working as an assistant professor of the Department of Applied Chemistry at Nagoya University from February 2005. After 7 months work as a designated associate professor and a group leader of Engineering Technology Group of ERATO Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project in the Graduate School of Science at Nagoya University, he became an associate professor of the Department of Applied Chemistry at the same university. His current research interests are mainly divided into the following parts; Development of nanostructures on a chip for single molecule biophysics and molecular biology, integration of whole biological processes on a single chip for systems biology.