Ken-ichiro Kamei's Biography

Ken-ichiro Kamei, Associate Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University

Ken-ichiro Kamei is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at WPI-iCeMS, Kyoto University, where he joined as a faculty member in 2010. He obtained his doctorate in Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003. During 2003-2006, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2006, he was promoted to Staff Research Associate at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA (along with Prof. H. R. Tseng). He has developed microfluidic platforms for the phenotypic analysis of human PSCs and in vitro cancer diagnosis. His current research interests focus on the development of “Body on a Chip” platforms to recapitulate in vivo physiological conditions by integrating micro/nano-technology and stem cell biology.