Kazuhiro Ogata
Professor and Chair of Department of Biochemistry
Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine
Japan
Biography
K. Ogata has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Yokohama City University in 1992 and postdoctoral studies from RIKEN tsukuba institute. In 1997, He became the leader of the regulation of protein function project, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), and from 2001, the professor and chairperson of Department of Biochemistry, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine. He has published papers in JMB, PNAS, NSMB, and Cell, and had been serving as an editorial board member of BBRC (2009-2010).
Research Interest
Structural biology, protein function and biochemistry