Yasuhiro Igarashi
Toyama Prefectural University, Japan
Biography
Yasuhiro Igarashi studied at the University of Tokyo and received his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in 1992. After two years of research activity at Fujifilm Corporation, he conducted Postdoctoral Research at Johns Hopkins University for two years. In 1996, he joined the faculty at Toyama Prefectural University, Japan, as Assistant Professor. In 1998, he was appointed Associate Professor and, in 2009, was appointed Professor. He is the author of up to 200 papers and has been the Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Antibiotics since 2011. For the last 20 years, he has focused his efforts on discovering novel bioactive compounds from natural resources.
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