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Professor　　　浜地 格　- Itaru Hamachi - †

Itaru Hamachi was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1960 and received his Ph.D. in 1988 from Kyoto University under the guidance of the late Professor Iwao Tabushi.
Immediately thereafter he joined Kyushu University, where he worked as an assistant professor for 3 years in Kunitake laboratory and became an associate professor in Shinkai laboratory in 1992.
In 2001, he became a full professor of IFOC, Kyushu University and then moved to Kyoto University in 2005.

He had been a PRESTO investigator for 7 years (from 2000 to 2006), a team leader of two CREST projects (from 2008 to 2013 and then from 2013 to 2018) and has been ERATO research director (from2018 to 2023) which all are supported by Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency.
He is now a supervisor of a PRESTO project (Single cell analysis) in JST program from 2014-2019.
His research interests include live-cell organic chemistry, chemical biology, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, and supramolecular biomaterials.

＜Award＞
The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2006)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK, 2011)
Nagoya Silver Medal of Organic Chemistry (2014)
Peking University Eli-Lily Lectureship award (China, 2014)
UC Berkeley BASF Lectureship award (USA, 2017)
The Chemical Society of Japan Award (2018)
Peking University Xingda Lectureship Award (China, 2020)

＜Editorial board＞
Cell Chemical Biology 2002～
Journal of Biochemistry 2010～2013
Scientific Reports 2010～2019
ChemBioChem 2012～2020
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2012～
Chemistry- An Asian Journal 2014～2021
Chemical Society Reviews 2014～
ASC Central Science 2015～
Advanced Science 2015〜
Chemical Communications : Associate editor 2016〜
Chem 2016〜
Bioconjugate Chemistry 2019〜
Chemical Science 2023〜

＜Paper List＞
Paper List 2020～
Paper List 2010～2019
Paper List 2000～2009
Paper List 1990～1999
Paper List 1980～1989