Department of Chemistry for Life Sciences and Agriculture
Chemistry for life and ecosystem from the levels of atoms and molecules
The Department of Chemistry for Life Sciences and Agriculture offers lectures and experimental subjects based on molecules and atoms, which are the smallest units in ordinary space, as the basis of Agricultural and Life sciences. By acquiring the basic and evolving ability based on the knowledge of Chemistry, we foster human resources who can respond to various issues in the fields of Agricultural and Life sciences. In modern society, the chemical industry, including pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, is facing a great challenge to secure R&D human resources, compared to other industries. To meet these social needs, fostering human recourses with high research ability is also our mission.
Graduate School Advisory Faculty
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ISHIGAMI Ken, Professor
Synthesis and structural analysis of natural antibiotics to overcome drug resistance
Synthetic study on bioactive natural products to probe their mechanism of action
TOMIZAWA Motohiro, Professor
Defining drug-binding surfaces through chemical biology approach and designing neuroactive agents based on the target structure
HASHIMOTO Kimiko, Professor
Structural and functional analyses of naturally occurring organic compounds
YAJIMA Arata, Professor
Synthetic organic chemistry
Chemical biology of microorganisms
URAI Makoto,Professor
Structural and functional analysis of microbial glycoconjugates involved in the interspecies interaction between microbes and other organisms
Screening of functional molecules from microbial metabolites
KATSUTA Ryo, Associate Professor
Design and synthesis of anticancer compounds with unique mode of action
Development of alternative synthetic route toward heterocyclic compounds