Sekiguchi Lab

Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi is currently Nippi Endowed Chair and Professor of Institute for Protein Research at Osaka University. He was born in 1950 and grew up in Hokkaido until he moved to Tokyo in 1961. He graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Osaka University in 1978. Kiyotoshi did post-doctoral work at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, with Sen-itiroh Hakomori, investigating the domain structure of fibronectin from 1979 through 1986. He was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science at Fujita Health University, and the Director of Research Institute, Osaka Medical Center for Maternal and Child Health, before he became Professor at Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University in 1998. His current research focuses on the structure and function of cell-adhesive proteins and engineering of 2D and 3D matrices for stem cells in regenerative medicine. He served as the Director of ERATO Sekiguchi Biomatrix Signaling Project (1999-2006) funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency and constructed a high-resolution immunohistochemical image database for more than 40 basement membrane proteins including all laminin subunits, which is named "Mouse Basement Membrane Bodymap" available on the web at http://dbarchive.biosciencedbc.jp/archive/matrixome/bm/home.html.