Professor Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University Tsutsumidori-Amamiyamachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 981-8555, JAPAN Tel.: +81 -22-717-8803 FAX: +81 -22-717-8806 Email: arimoto@biochem.tohoku.ac.jp

Education:

Keio University: B.S., 1988. Keio University: Ph.D., 1995 (Thesis advisors: Shosuke Yamamura & Shigeru Nishiyama). University of Pennsylvania: Postdoctoral Associate, 1996-97 (Postdoctoral advisor: Amos B. Smith, III).

Prior Employment:

Asahi Glass Company, Yokohama, Researcher (1990-1992).

Shizuoka University, Shizuoka: Assistant Professor (1994), Associate Professor (1999).

Nagoya University, Nagoya: Associate Professor (2001-2005).

Experience:

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT): Senior Science Specialist (Program officer of "Kaken-hi" grant, 2002-2004)

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST):  PRESTO project, Synthesis and Control, Researcher (2001-2005).

Professional Memberships:  Chemical Society of Japan; American Chemical Society; The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.
 

Honors and Awards:

Incentive Award in Symposium on Chemistry of Natural Product, Japan, 1999.

Shionogi Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, 2000.

Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, 2001.

Sasakawa Science fellowship, Japan Science Society, 1998.

Fellowship, Grant for Basic Science Research Projects, The Sumitomo Foundation, 1999.

Fellowship, The NOVARTIS Foundation (Japan) for the Promotion of Science, 1999.

Fellowship, The Inamori Foundation, 2000.

Fellowship, Uehara Memorial Foundation, 2001.

Fellowship, The Fujisawa Foundation, 2002.

Areas of Research:

Total Synthesis of Natural Products

Design and Synthesis of Glycopeptides with Antibacterial Activity against Vancomycin-resisitant Bacteria (VRE, VRSA)

Paralytic substances in venom of Spider Wasps

Synthesis and Biological Functions of Nitroguanosin Derivatives (with Prof. Akaike, Kumamoto University)

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