Kazuya kikuchi
Osaka University, Japan
Biography
Kazuya Kikuchi graduated from the PhD course of the University of Tokyo (Japan) in 1994 and did his postdoctoral training at UCSD and the Scripps Research Institute. He was appointed as a research associate at the University of Tokyo (Japan) thereafter and promoted to associate professor. He was appointed as a full professor at Osaka University in 2005. During these period he became involved in molecular imaging probes development for both fluorescence imaging and magnetic resonance imaging. He is focused both in in vivo imaging and single molecule cellular imaging.