Yoshinobu Baba

Dr. Yoshinobu Baba received PhD degree in 1986 from Kyushu University. After postdoctoral research, Assistant Professor at Oita Univ., and Associate Prof. at Kobe Pharm. Univ., he was promoted to the full professor at The University of Tokushima in 1997. He has been Professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University since 2004. He is also a Director of FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevices, Nagoya University and Satellite Principal Investigator, Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center, Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He is an Associate Editor of Anal. Chem. of American Chemical Society and serving to over 20 scientific journals, including Nanoscale of Royal Society of Chemistry and Biomicrofluidics of American Institute of Physics, as an editorial/advisory board member. He is a co-initiator for the world largest Nanotech/Nanobio International Meeting and Exhibition in Japan and International Academy of Nanomedicine. He is a general chair of numerous international meetings (microTAS, MSB, NanoBioEXPO, ISMM). He has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received over 110 awards for his contributions in nanobiotechnology: MERCK Award in 2004, award from the Applied Physics Society of Japan in 2006, The CSJ (Chemical Society of Japan) award for creative work in 2008, and Award for Industrial-Academy Collaboration in 2009. His major area of interest is nanobiosicence and nanobiotechnology for omics, systems biology, medical diagnosis, tissue engineering, and molecular imaging. He is the author or co-author of 740 publications, including research papers, proceedings, reviews, and books and is also an inventor of over 70 patents. He has delivered more than 725 plenary and invited lectures at conferences. His work has been cited on 298 occasions by newspapers and televisions.