Professor
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Takanori Ichiki is currently Professor/Department Head of Department of Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in Japan.
He received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Metallurgy from the University of Tokyo in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He joined the Department of Electric and Electronics Engineering, Toyo University in 1995, where he studied ULSI nano/microfabrication technology and extended it to the nanobiodevice. In 2004, he was assigned to the University of Tokyo, as Associate Professor of Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Engineering Innovation from 2006 to 2015. In 2016 he was appointed Professor of Department of Materials Engineering. He is also the Principal Research Scientist/Laboratory Head of Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM), Institute of Industry Promotion-Kawasaki, that launched in 2015.
His current research activities include the development of rapid blood testing devices for early cancer detection, a high-speed enzyme molecule evolution system using in situ synthesized ultrahigh-density microarray chip, and a new analytical platform for nanobioparticles such as exosomes.