Masafumi Yohda

Masafumi YOHDA

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tokyo. After working as a researcher at Asahi Glass Central Research Laboratory, a full-time researcher at RIKEN, and an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, he became a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, TUAT in 2003. He has been a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering of TUAT since April 2025, and is a project leader of the "Carbon Cultivation Center for Challenging the Limits of Carbon Negativity" (FY2023-FY2032) under the JST COI-NEXT (Co-creation Opportunity Formation Support Program). His specialties include structure-function research of proteins called molecular chaperones and development of gene analysis technology.