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Koji Ueda

Affiliation

Koji Ueda

Cancer Precision Medicine Center, Personalized Cancer Medicine Realization Project Project Leader

Contact

3-8-31, Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-8550, Japan
Tel:+81-3-3570-0658
Fax:+81-3-3570-0644
Mail:koji.ueda@jfcr.or.jp

Education & Professional Career

2003.3  B.Sc., Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Tokyo
2005.3  M.Sc., Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, the University of Tokyo
2005.4  Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, DC1
2008.3  Ph.D. (Biochemistry), Department of Medical Genome Science, Division of Bioscience, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo
2008.4  Researcher, Laboratory for Biomarker Development, Center for Genomic Medicine RIKEN
2012.4  Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Biomarker Development, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN
2013.4  Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Genome Sequencing Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN
2014.4  Associate Professor, Division of Biosciences, Functional Proteomics Center, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo
2015.7  Group Leader, Cancer Proteomics Group Project Leader, Project for Realization of Personalized Cancer Medicine Cancer Precision Medicine Center,Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Area of Research

・Early detection of cancer
・Companion diagnostics (CDx) of cancer
・Mass spectrometry
・Proteomics, Glycoproteomics
・Exosome

Membership

・Japanese Cancer Association
・Japan Human Proteome Organization
・The Japanese Biochemical Society
・The Japanese Society of HTLV-1 and Associated Diseases
・Japanese Society for Extracellular Vesicles (JSEV)
・American Association for Cancer Research
・Human Proteome Organization (HUPO)

Awards

・2007 The Scholar-in-Training Award for the 2007 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
・2008 The Scholar-in-Training Award for the 2008 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
・2010 Fellowship Award for International Workshop on Viruses, Genes and Cancer (International Workshop on Viruses, Genes and Cancer (Venice, Italy))
・2013 Young Scientist Award, Japan Human Proteome Organization
・2013 Certificate of appreciation from Exactive Director of RIKEN
・2018 The Young Investigator Awards of the Japanese Cancer Association

Research Projects

・Identification of cancer-specific glycan biomarkers by glycoproteomics
・Development of cancer liquid biopsy diagnostics based on extracellular vesicles (exosomes)
・Establishment of innovative cancer immuno-therapy using proteogenomics

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