Hiroaki Kitano

Affiliation

Cancer Institute, Cancer Systems Biology Chief

Contact

Room 208, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550 Japan
Tel：+81-3-3570-0544
Fax：+81-3-3570-0544
Mail：kitano@sbi.jp

Education & Professional Career

March 1984, B.A. (Physics), School of Liberal Arts, Division of Natural Science - Physics, International Christian University
September 1991, Ph.D. (Computer Science), Kyoto University

Area of Research

・Systems biology
・Computational biology
・Artificial intelligence
・Robotics

Membership

・Founding President, The RoboCup Federation
・Chair, The International Society for Systems Biology

Awards

August 1993, The Computers and Thought Award, IJCAI-93, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
December 2009, Nature’s 2009 Japan Mid-career Award for Creative Mentoring in Science

Research Projects

Understanding biological systems at the system-level has been my long standing research agenda. I have been working on systems biology since mid 90s. For systems-approach to be successful, one must integrate theory, computational infrastructure, and experiments in a coordinated manner. On the theory front, I have been trying to develop a "theory of biological robustness" which sheds lights on robustness and its trade-offs in biological systems. For computational infrastructure is concerned, my team, together with international collaborators, has been working on development and standard formation of SBML and SBGN as well as software complying with these standards: CellDesigner. In addition, we have developed a gTOW method that enables us to measure robustness of cellular systems. With these research results so far, we are now embarking on research to find cure for cancer.