Hiroyuki Kagechika

Hiroyuki Kagechika is a professor and director at the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He received his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1989. Prof. Kagechika’s major research interest is in the development of functional organic molecules in the fields of medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, and materials sciences. He has developed various novel bioactive compounds, including a drug for acute promyelocytic leukemia.