Yamada Lab in Department of Surgery at UIC
Principal Investigator
Education
2003 Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology
2001 M.S., Tokyo Institute of Technology
1999 B.S., Tokyo Institute of Technology
Appointments
2019- present
Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and , UIC College of Medicine
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2018-present
Translational Oncology Program, UI Cancer Center
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2020-present
Associate Professor (By courtesy) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, UIC College of Engineering
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2004-2019
Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, UIC, College of Medicine
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2003-2004
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UIC, College of Medicine.
My research interests and expertise are the discovery and development of new class of peptide-based anticancer agents and carriers for imaging agent targeting cancers on the basis of molecular biology, protein/peptide chemistry, cell biology and cancer biology.