Group Leader/Professor
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Dr. Kohsaku Kawakami is currently working for National Institute for Materials Science as a group leader, where he is leading Medical Soft Matter Group, and also as a director for Materials Open Platform for Pharmaceutical Sciences. He also serves as a professor for University of Tsukuba. Before joining the current institute in 2006, he has 13 years' experience in pharmaceutical companies including Merck and Shionogi, where he was responsible for physicochemical characterization and formulation studies for new chemical entities and their global development. His Ph.D. was conferred from Kyoto University.