Rate My Professor Yosuke Yamada

Yosuke Yamada is a Professor in the Department of Sports and Health Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at Tohoku University. He also serves as Professor in the Department of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Graduate School of Medicine at Tohoku University. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies at Kyoto University in 2003, his Master of Science from the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University in 2005, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University in 2009.

Before his appointments at Tohoku University beginning in 2024, Yamada held positions including Researcher, Associate Researcher, Special Researcher, and Section Head at the National Institute of Health and Nutrition and the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition. His research interests include physical activity, energy metabolism, skeletal muscle, body composition, sarcopenia, frailty, exercise physiology, nutrition, and gerontology. He is a recipient of the 21st JSPS Prize awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2024, along with other honors such as Young Investigator Awards and article recognition awards.