Tooru Ooya(Detailed profile)
Biography (Tooru Ooya)
Tooru Ooya is Professor of Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Medical Device Engineering and Center for Advanced Medical Engineering Research & Development (CAMED) at Kobe University (Japan), where he has been since 2023. He received B.S. in Food and Nutritional Science from University of Shizuoka, Japan (1993) and his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) (1997). He spent 8 years as a Research Assistant Professor at JAIST, then moved to Toyama Prefectural University (Japan) as Associate Professor in 2006. Two-years later, he moved to Graduate School of Engineering at Kobe University and worked there for 15 years. In 2023, he moved to the precent position. From 2001 to 2002, he worked at Purdue University (USA) as a Visiting Research Scholar. Selected honors include The Award for Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Biomaterials (2008). He is the author or co-author of over 160 peer-reviewed journal papers, 24 book chapters, and 29 patents with h-index 52. His research interests are: biomaterials; design of biofunctional materials for cancer therapy; food-based materials for biomedical applications; polysaccharide-based hydrogels for medicine; dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers as biocompatible materials. Now, he has started the rational design of biomedical devices based on "Design Thinking" with medical doctors of Kobe University.
Tooru Ooya is Professor of Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Medical Device Engineering and Center for Advanced Medical Engineering Research & Development (CAMED) at Kobe University (Japan), where he has been since 2023. He received B.S. in Food and Nutritional Science from University of Shizuoka, Japan (1993) and his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) (1997). He spent 8 years as a Research Assistant Professor at JAIST, then moved to Toyama Prefectural University (Japan) as Associate Professor in 2006. Two-years later, he moved to Graduate School of Engineering at Kobe University and worked there for 15 years. In 2023, he moved to the precent position. From 2001 to 2002, he worked at Purdue University (USA) as a Visiting Research Scholar. Selected honors include The Award for Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Biomaterials (2008). He is the author or co-author of over 160 peer-reviewed journal papers, 24 book chapters, and 29 patents with h-index 52. His research interests are: biomaterials; design of biofunctional materials for cancer therapy; food-based materials for biomedical applications; polysaccharide-based hydrogels for medicine; dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers as biocompatible materials. Now, he has started the rational design of biomedical devices based on "Design Thinking" with medical doctors of Kobe University.
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