Kazunori Kataoka

Center Director, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, Kawasaki-City, Japan

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Prof. Kazunori Kataoka is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and the Center Director of the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) at the Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion. Over the past 40 years, Prof. Kataoka has made significant contributions to the field of biomaterials, particularly in drug delivery, drug targeting, non-viral gene delivery, and nanomedicine. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed articles, garnered over 100,000 citations, achieving an h-index of 168. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics 9 times since 2014. He holds over 600 issued patents and has founded five start-ups. Prof. Kataoka's numerous awards include the Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials (2004), the Founder’s Award from the Controlled Release Society (2006), the NIMS Award from the National Institute of Materials Science, Japan (2009), the Humboldt Research Award (2012), the Leo Esaki Prize (2012), the Gutenberg Research Award (2015), the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund Prize (2017), the Biomaterials Global Impact Award (2023), and the Clarivate Citation Laureate in Chemistry (2023). He has also been elected as a Member of the Engineering Academy of Japan (2011), an International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2017), and a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (2017).