Seiichi Ishida PhD

Seiichi Ishida has been a Professor of the Division of Applied Life Science, at the Graduate School of Engineering, Sojo University, and a Guest Researcher at the Biological Safety Research Centre at the National Institute of Health Sciences since 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1993, and conducted postdoctoral studies at The Cancer Institute (Tokyo) and at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Duke University Medical Centre. He used to be Senior Researcher (2000-2007) and Section Chief (2007-2020) of the Division of Pharmacology at the National Institute of Health Sciences. His research focuses primarily on the development of in vitro cell assay platform for the evaluation of drug metabolism and drug-induced liver injury and their application to the regulatory science field.