Curriculum Vitae

So NAKAGAWA, Ph.D.

Work Experiences:

Apr 2025 – Present. Visiting Researcher, Center for Intractable Diseases and ImmunoGenomics, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBN)

Apr 2025 – Present. Part-time Researcher, The IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University

Apr 2022 – Present. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine

Jul 2021 – Mar 2024. (Adjunct) Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Bioinformation and DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics

Apr 2018 – Mar 2022. Junior Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine

Apr 2013 – Mar 2018. Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine

Sep 2011 – Mar 2013. Visiting Scholar, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Apr 2008 – Mar 2013. Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), National Institute of Genetics (NIG)

Oct 2007 – Mar 2008. Technical Staff, Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Education:

2008 Ph.D., Bioinformatics

Department of Systems Biology, School of Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.

Thesis: Comparative evolutionary analysis of the nucleotide sequences around the translation initiation codon.

2005 M.S., Bioinformatics

Department of Systems Biology, School of Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University,  Tokyo, Japan

Thesis: Mathematical analysis for protein-protein interactions in yeasts.

2004 B.S., Applied Chemistry

National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation. (Department of Applied Chemistry, Keio University)

Thesis: Dissipative structures and biological networks.

Awards and Honors:

Encouragement Award, Genetics Society of Japan (2023) 

Good Design Award, Japan Institute of Design Promotion, Japan (2022)

Shigeyoshi Matsumae Academic Promotion Award, Tokai University, Japan (2021)

Young Scientist Initiative Award, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan (2017) 

Best Oral Presentation Award, The 3rd Asian Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology (2010)

The Medical Research Institute Award (3rd) for Young Researchers, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (2008)

The Biomedical Research Award, School of Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (2005)

Professional Service:

2025 – Present. Editor, mSphere 

2024 – Present. Associate Editor, Virus Evolution 

2021 – Present. Associate Editor, Frontiers in Virology 

2021 – Present. Associate Editor, and 2024 - Present. Editorial Steering Committee member,  FEBS Open Bio 

Fellowships and Grants:

2025 – 2028 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI)

2025 Kurata Research Fund (PI)

2020 – 2024 JST CREST Fundamental technologies for COVID-19 (Co-PI, PI: Toshiya Senda)

2020 – 2022 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (PI)

2017 – 2020 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Neo-Virology" (PI)

2016 – 2018 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (Co-PI, PI: Tadashi Imanishi)

2016 – 2017 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (PI)

2014 – 2018 MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities (Co-PI, PI: Rio Kita)

2013 – 2014 JSPS Start-Up Grant (PI)

2013 Tokai University Start-Up Grant (PI)

2011 – 2012 JSPS Research Fellow (PI)

2010 NIG Collaborate Research (A)

2009 NIG Collaborate Research (B)

2007 Internship grants from TMDU Global Linkage Program

Publications:

See Publication list or Google Scholar

References:

Available upon request