Rate My Professor Eijiro Miyako

Eijiro Miyako is Professor at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials at Tohoku University, with concurrent appointments as Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering Department of Biomolecular Engineering and at the Tohoku University Advanced Research Center for Innovations in Next-Generation Medicine. He earned a PhD in Engineering from Kyushu University in 2006, following a master’s degree from the same institution and an undergraduate degree from Kagoshima University. His research centers on bioengineering, materials chemistry, nanotechnology, and nanomedicine, with emphasis on creating innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies for cancer through functional biomaterials, nanomaterials responsive to physical stimuli, and bacteria that selectively accumulate in tumor environments.

Miyako joined Tohoku University in April 2026. Prior to this, he held positions at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, including Professor from 2024 to 2026, Associate Professor from 2019 to 2024, and Research Director roles, as well as earlier positions as Senior Researcher and Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. He has received multiple awards, including the Innovation Award from Tech Startup HOKURIKU in 2026, the “Changing Tomorrow” Pitch Competition Winner in 2026, the Best Seed Science Award from NINEJP in 2025, the Prof. Sumio Iijima Research Encouragement Award in 2015, and the PCCP Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014. Key recent publications include “Tumour-resident oncolytic bacteria trigger potent anticancer effects through selective intratumoural thrombosis and necrosis” in Nature Biomedical Engineering (2026) and “Multifunctional amino acid-based nanoparticles for sequential drug delivery to overcome multidrug resistant cancer” in Journal of Controlled Release (2026). He serves on editorial advisory boards for Small Science, Cell Reports Physical Science, and iScience. His work has garnered over 3,800 citations on Google Scholar.