Professor
Takao Yasui
yasuit[@]life.isct.ac.jp / 045-924-5520
Mar. 2007：B.S. in Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Mar. 2009：M.S. in Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Nov. 2011：Ph.D. in Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University (Supervisor: Prof. Yoshinobu Baba), Doctoral program completed ahead of schedule
Jan. 2012 – Jan. 2018：Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Jan. 2012 – May 2012：Visiting Researcher (concurrent), Uppsala University, Sweden
Oct. 2015 – Mar. 2019：JST PRESTO Researcher (concurrent)
Feb. 2018 – Apr. 2023：Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Oct. 2019 – Mar. 2023：JST PRESTO Researcher (concurrent)
May 2023 – Sep. 2024：Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
May 2018 – present：Co-founder (concurrent), Craif Inc.
Jun. 2023 – present：Designated Professor, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University
Jan. 2024 – present：Senior Researcher, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology
Oct. 2024 – present：Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo (due to institutional merger)
（Selected Awards）
Jan. 2025：7th Japan Medical Research and Development Grand Prize – President’s Award, AMED “Comprehensive analysis of extracellular vesicles using nanowires and its application to liquid biopsy”
Aug. 2024：2023 Kao Science Prize “Pioneering the frontier of liquid biopsy using nanowires”
Apr. 2024：56th Ichimura Prize in Science “Development of liquid biopsy technology using nanowires”
Feb. 2021：2020 Nakatani Award “Development of urine-based liquid biopsy via microRNA measurement and its application to early cancer detection”
Apr. 2020：2020 Young Scientists’ Award, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) “Development of innovative bioanalytical methods through nanospace control”, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)