Rate My Professor Kenji Kadomatsu

Kenji Kadomatsu is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Kyushu University School of Medicine in 1982 and his PhD in Medicine from Kyushu University. Kadomatsu joined Nagoya University in 1993 as an assistant in the First Department of Biochemistry and advanced through lecturer and associate professor roles before becoming full professor in 2004. His career includes appointments as assistant at Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine and visiting researcher at the National Institutes of Health in the United States.

Kadomatsu has held numerous leadership positions at Nagoya University, including Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine, Vice President, Provost, Trustee of the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, and Director of the Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE). His research centers on medical biochemistry with emphasis on midkine, glycosaminoglycans such as chondroitin sulfate, and mechanisms of axon growth, regeneration, and related disease processes. He has received awards including the Flokert Belzer Award in 2001 and the Japan Biochemical Society Encouragement Award in 1997. Kadomatsu has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biochemistry, Associate Editor of Cancer Science, and in various roles with the Japan Academy of Sciences, Japanese Cancer Society, and Japanese Society for Carbohydrate Research. He maintains an active publication record with hundreds of papers on topics in glycobiology, neurobiology, and oncology.

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