Hiroyuki Nakamura

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Prof. Hiroyuki Nakamura has been President of the Japanese Society of Neutron Capture Therapy since 2015. He received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 1996 under the supervision of Prof. Yoshinori Yamamoto. He was an assistant professor at Kyushu University (1995-1997) and Tohoku University (1997-2002). He worked with Prof. Dennis Curran at the University of Pittsburgh (2000-2001). He was appointed Associate Professor at Gakushuin University in 2002 and promoted to Professor in 2006. In 2013 he was appointed Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 2017, he has been a visiting professor at Dalian University of Science and Technology. Prof Nakamura received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists in 1999 and the Japanese Society of Molecular Targeting Therapy of Cancer Award in 2007. His research interests include the development of new synthetic methodologies, boron-based medicinal chemistry, chemical biology for target protein identification and modification, and neutron capture therapy.