Dr Tohru Yamada

Dr Tohru Yamada

Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA

Dr. Tohru Yamada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Illinois, College of Medicine. Dr. Yamada was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the school's Department of Microbiology & Immunology. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His 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. Dr. Yamada is also Director, Drug Development of CDG Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company (Chicago, IL) engaged in the development and commercialization of proprietary peptides derived from pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria and green plants. He holds ~25 issued and pending US and international patents, and has authored a number of original research/review/news articles featured in Nature Medicine, Nature Review Clinical Oncology, Science, Lancet Oncology, etc. Dr. Yamada is currently a member of the Editorial Board of several peer-reviewed scientific journals such as International Journal of Nanomedicine.

Updated 7 August 2023