Prof. Masatsune Kainosho

Personal data

• Date of birth: March 10, 1942
• Marital status: Married, one daughter

Work address

• Graduate School of Science
  Department of Chemistry
  Tokyo Metropolitan University
  1-1 Minami-ohsawa, Hachioji
  Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
• Phone/Fax: +81-42-677-2544
• Email: kainosho at nmr.chem.metro-u.ac.jp

Research Results

• Publications

Education

• 1960-64 Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo
• 1970 Ph.D., Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo

Professional Career

• 1964-73 Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Central Research Laboratories, Research Scientist
• 1973-75 California Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, USA
• 1975-80 Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Central Research Laboratories, Senior Research Scientist
• 1980-92 Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Department of Chemistry
• 1992-2005 Professor of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• 2005 Professor Emeritus
• 2006-2007 COE Professor, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Science
• 2007- Specially Coordinated Professor, Structural Biology Center, Nagoya University
• 2007- Specially Coordinated Professor, Strategic Research Center, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• 2007- Adjunct Professor, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Honors and Appointments

Visiting Lectureships

• 1980-84 Visiting Scientist, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
• 1982 Visiting Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
• 1984-85 Visiting Professor, Institute for Protein research, Osaka University
• 1987-88 Visiting Scientist, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo
• 1987 Visiting Professor, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
• 1987 Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• 1988-90 Visiting Scientist, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Medical Research, Tokyo
• 1988 Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo
• 1988-90 Visiting Professor, Tokyo University
• 1989 Visiting Professor, Gumma College of Technology
• 1993 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University
• 1994 Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Hokkaido University
• 1994 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ibaragi University
• 1995 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science, Kobe University
• 1996 Visiting Professor, Yokohama City University
• 1996- Visiting Principal Research Scientist, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
• 2006- Visiting Professor, Yokohama City University

Grants

• 1981-82 Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
• 1985-89 Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (A)
• 1985-88 Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research
• 1986-88 Grant-in-Aid for Special Project Research
• 1987-93 Special Coordination Fund (Science and Technology Agency)
• 1988-90 Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research
• 1990-92 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area
• 1993-95 Special Coordination Fund (Science and Technology Agency)
• 1993-96 Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research
• 1987-90 NEDO Bioscience Grant
• 1991-94 Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant
• 1995-98 Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant
• 1996-2001 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST Award, JST)
• 2001-06 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST Award, JST)
• 2001-05 NIH Structural Genomics Pilot Project, Center of Eukaryotic Gene Structure Genomics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (as an external collaborator)

Editorial Board Member

• 1979-81 J. Organic Synthesis (Tokyo)
• 1981-83 Editorial Board, Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan
• 1988-90 Editorial Board, J. Biochemistry (Tokyo)
• 1990- Advisory Board, J. Biomol. NMR (ESCOM)
• 1998- Editorial Board, Spectroscopy (IOC Press)
• 1999- Editorial Board, J. Magnetic Resonance (Academic Press)

Organization of International Conferences

• 1988 International Workshop on Molecular Approaches to the Elucidation of Biological Function by Stable Isotope Aided NMR Spectroscopy, Organizer, Oiso, Japan (Feb 6-10)
• 1988 28th NMR Symposium (Japan), Tokyo (Nov 20-22), Organizer
• 1991 UCLA Symposium “Frontier of NMR in Molecular Biology”, Co-organizer, Keystone, CO (Apr 8-14)
• 1995 PACIFICHEM’95 “Advanced NMR Techniques and Biomolecular Structure”, Principle Organizer, Honolulu, HI (Dec 17-22)
• 1998 18th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Organizer, Tokyo, Japan (Aug 23-28)
• 2000 PACIFICHEM 2000 “Biomolecular Structure and NMR”, Co-organizer, Honolulu, HI (Dec 17-19)
• 2005 PACIFICHEM 2005, Co-organizer, Honolulu, HI
• 2007 Workshop on Stable Isotope Aided NMR Spectroscopy, Organizer, Osaka, Japan (March 30-31)

Affiliations

• The Chemical Society of Japan
• American Chemical Society
• The Biophysical Society of Japan
• The Japanese Biochemical Society
• Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry
• Society of NMR Medicine
• International Isotope Society
• ICMRBS, President (2006-2008)
• ISMAR, Committee (2000-)