Stimuli-Responsive π-Conjugated Molecules for Molecular Imaging and Drug Delivery

 

Date: 18^th November, 2024 (Monday)

Time: 11 am - 12 noon (HKT)

Prof. Koji MIKI

 

Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry

Graduate School of Engineering

Kyoto University

Koji Miki was born in Hyogo prefecture, Japan in 1976. He received his B. Eng. degree from Kyoto University in 1999 and received his Ph. D. from Kyoto University in 2003 under the direction of Professor Sakae Uemura. He worked for Professor K. C. Nicolaou as a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute in 2003–2004. He joined to Professor Yoshito Tobe’s group at Osaka University as a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD) for 2004–2005. During this period, he got a chance to work with Professor Timothy M. Swager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005, he became a program-specific assistant professor of Nano-medicine Merger Education Unit in Kyoto University. He became an assistant professor of Professor Kouichi Ohe’s group at Kyoto University in 2008 and was promoted to be a senior lecturer in 2009, and then be an associate professor in 2014. He received Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (2010), an opportunity to talk in Young Scholar Lectures of The Chemical Society of Japan (2012), Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (2013), Academic Incentive Award from The UBE Foundation (2017), and Asian Core Program Lectureship Award 2023 (Hong Kong). His research interest is organic synthesis, especially synthesizing functionalized π-conjugated molecules for biological application (molecular imaging and drug delivery).