Fujita, Satoshi, Dr.

Fujita, Satoshi

ETH Zürich
Guest Senior Research Scientist 01.04.2013-31.03.2014

Research Interests

My principal research interests lie in the development of cellular nano-device technology combined with nanotechnology, molecular biology and cell biology. The technologies will become one of the powerful tools for medical application such as drug discovery, theranostic and regenerative therapy. Especially, I have been interested in one of the cell microarrays, transfected cell microarray (TCM), where plasmid DNA and/or siRNA are spotted on the surface of a substrate and are reverse-transfected locally into adherent cells. I believe that TCM will become standard tool for parallel cell-based omics analysis (cellomics). I applied the TCM technology to medical tools and devices as well.
My background before getting PhD is molecular biology, cell biology, nucleic chemistry and protein engineering. Therefore, I would like to learn in the field of soft lithography, micro-fabrication and soft interface regulation to fuse each field technologies and make innovative miniaturized device for cell validation. Now, I am progressing project to make the surface where we can easily control the release timing of transfection of plasmid DNA.

Fujita, Satoshi

Scientific Expertise

Molecular biology
Cell biology
Surface chemistry
Protein engineering
Nucleic chemistry
Microarray technology
In vitro selection (SELEX) technology

Work Experience

2013-         Guest Senior Research Scientist, ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering
2008-         Senior Research Scientist (PI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2004-2008   Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
2003           Project Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2000-2003   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
1998-2000   Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Education

2000       PhD “Construction of Rational Screening System for Selection of Rational RNA and Protein” in Engineering, University of Tsukuba
1997       Master of Engineering, University of Tsukuba

Teaching Experience

2012       Lecturer, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
2009       Lecturer, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba (2009)

Academic Honors

2011       Excellent Paper Award, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan
2007       Tsukuba Chemistry & Biotechnology Award
2002       12th Nikkei BP Technology Award, Section Prizes, Healthcare/Biotechnology,
2000       Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Publication in LBB

1) Qiu, F., Mhanna, R., Zhang, L., Ding, Y., Fujita, S., Nelson, B.J., (2014) Artificial bacterial flagella functionalized with temperature-sensitive liposomes for controlled release. Sens Actuators B Chem, In press.

Publication list (external pageonly Japanese) before coming LBB

Link

My group page (external pageJapanese and external pageEnglish) at AIST in Japan

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