Noriaki Emoto MD, PhD

Noriaki Emoto, MD, Ph.D., is a professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and in the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmaceutical Science at Kobe Pharmaceutical University in Japan. He also heads the pulmonary hypertension program at Kobe University Hospital. Emoto’s major research interest is the translational research of endothelin. He co-chaired the Thirteenth (ET-13) and Sixteenth (ET-16) International Conferences on Endothelin and won the Louis N. Katz Basic Science Research Prizes of the American Heart Association in 1994 for the molecular identification and characterization of endothelin-converting enzymes, ECE-1 and ECE-2.

In 1987 he graduated from Kobe University School of Medicine with Clinical training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. In 1990 he entered Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. In the same year, he studied pharmacology at the University of Tsukuba in Japan and started his research under the guidance of Professor Masafumi Yanagisawa. In 1992, when Professor Yanagisawa moved to the United States, he studied abroad at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In 1997, he returned to Japan as an assistant at the Kobe University School of Medicine/International Exchange Center.