Hiroaki Suga

Biography

Hiroaki Suga is a Professor of the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo. He was born in Okayama City, Japan in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (1986) and Master of Engineering (1989) from Okayama University, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1994) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After three years of post-doctoral work at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1997) and promoted to tenured Associate Professor (2002). In 2003, he moved to the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo as an Associate Professor, and soon after he was promoted to Full Professor. In 2010, he changed his affiliation to the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science.

His research interests are in the field of bioorganic chemistry, chemical biology and biotechnology related to RNA, translation, and peptides. He is also a founder of PeptiDream Inc. Tokyo, a publicly traded company at the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which has many partnerships with pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Nowadays, Professor Suga is serving a two-year term as President of The Chemical Society of Japan. He has received many awards in Japan and Max-Bergmann Medal 2016.

RSC affiliations

• Editor-in-Chief, RSC Chemical Biology