Takenaka Lab
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Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Takenaka’s laboratory

1-1 Sensui-cyo, Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu-shi
Fukuoka 804-8550 Japan
Tel&Fax: +81-93-884-3322

[Shigeori Takenaka]
Prof. Shigeori Takenaka

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Shigeori Takenaka was born in 1959 in Fukuoka. He received his PhD in 1988 at Kyushu University. He worked at Kyushu University as Research Associate (1987-1989) and as Associate Professor (1989-1991, 1996-2005). He also worked at Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) as Associate Professor (1991-1996) and as Professor (2005-). He was a visiting scientist for Prof. W. David Wilson, Georgia State University (1994-1995). He was Director of Research Center for Bio-microsensing Technology (RCBT). Prof. Takenaka received several prestigious awards in Award such as 2019 Award of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, 2015 SPSJ Mitsubishi Chemical Award (The Society of Polymer Science, Japan), 2003 Award of new product (Asahi Foundation, Japan), and 2001 Nanotechnology Award (International Nanotechnology Conference, Japan). Prof. Takenaka has authored more than 245 papers in refereed journals, 40 reviews and 25 contributing book.



Latest research subject

  1. Anti-cancer drugs based on G-quadruplex DNA ligands

  2. Cancer diagnostic methods using telomerase activity as an indicator

  3. Molecules recognizing G-quadruplex clusters

  4. Ligands for searching G-quadruplex DNA formation sites on the genome

  5. Ligands for Viral G-quadruplex RNA


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