Ryuji Kawano's Biography

Ryuji Kawano, Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Dr. Ryuji Kawano is an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT). He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Yokohama National University, and then he spent 3 years in Prof. Henry S. White’s lab. at the U. of Utah, where he conducted research on nanopore measurements. He then joined Prof. S. Takeuchi’s group at KAST and U. of Tokyo, where he carried out research on the construction of durable lipid bilayer systems using microfabricated devices. Since 2014 he worked as an associate professor at the present university. His current research interests include molecular robotics based on synthetic membrane proteins, DNA computing, and nanopore technology based on microfabricated technologies.