General Director of the Research Institute,
Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health
(Osaka MCHRI)
Education
1975 graduated Osaka University Medical School
1989 PhD (Internal Medicine)
Positions and Employment
1981-1991 Internist & research scientist, Osaka MCHRI
1991-present Head of Molecular Medicine Department, Osaka MCHRI
1998-present General Director, Osaka MCHRI
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
1993-present Adjunct Professor, Osaka University
2000-present Editor of the Journal of Mass Spectrometry (Wiley)
2006-present Adjunct Member of the Science Council of Japan
2007-2011 President of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
Achievements
After earning MD degree, YW started on the mass spectrometry of hemoglobin
variants in collaboration with an instrumentation group in Osaka University
and established the strategy in 1981. In 1991, YW unraveled the molecular
pathology of Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation. With these achievements,
YW pioneered in the introduction of mass spectrometry to disease-related
proteins, with respect to amino acid substitutions and post-translational
modifications.
YW has been studying fundamental technologies of mass spectrometry and
contributing to the mass spectrometry community as well.
Awards
Japanese Soceity for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Young Investigator Award
(1996)
Japanese Soceity for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Isamu Matsumoto Award
(2006)
JHUPO Award (2011)
