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Professor Kazunori Kataoka, University of Tokyo, Japan

Kazunori KataokaKazunori Kataoka, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biomaterials at Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan.  He has been appointed joint position since 2004 from Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo as a Professor of Clinical Biotechnology at Center of Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine.  He received B.S. (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Kataoka received the Society Award from the Japanese Society for Biomaterials (1993), the Society Award from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2000), Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials, USA (2005), and Founder’s Award from the Controlled Release Society (2008).  He has been a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering since 1999, and a vice president of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan since 2008.

His current major research interest includes the development of new polymeric carrier systems, especially block copolymer micelles, for drug and gene targeting.

LOCATION

Congress Centrum Mainz, Germany

DATES

7–9 June 2009

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