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Yoshinobu Baba, Ph.D., FRSC Yoshinobu Baba, Ph.D., FRSC

Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Microdevice Group Leader, MEXT Innovative Research Center for Preventive Medical Engineering, Nagoya University
Professor at the Plasma Nanotechnology Research Center, Nagoya University
Director for Nanobiotechnology Research, Health Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Dr. Yoshinobu Baba is professor at Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He is also Director of Nanobio Research, at Health Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the Microdevice Group Leader, MEXT Innovative Research Center for Preventive Medical Engineering, Nagoya University, and Professor at the Plasma Nanotechnology Research Center, Nagoya University

Experience and Contributions

He serves as board member on over 10 scientific journals, including Analytic Chemistry, Lab on a Chip, and Nanobiotechnology.

He is a member of Steering Committee for International Symposium on Micro Total Analysis System (uTAS). He is a co-initiator for Nanotech/Nanobio International Meeting and Exhibition in Japan.

He is a general chair of several international meetings including, uTAS 2002, ISBC 2003, and MSB Kobe 2005.

He has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received several awards for his contributions in capillary electrophoresis, microchip, and nanobiotechnology: Young Scientist Award from the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan in 1997, Science Award from Tokushima Newspaper in 2002, Takeda International Award for Science and Technology in 2003, Award form the Society of Toxicology in 2004, and MERCK Award in 2004.

His major area of interest is nanobiosicence and nanobiotechnology for genomics, proteomics, glycomics, systems biology, single molecule manipulation, and medical applications.

He is the author or co-author of 470 publications, including research papers, proceedings, review articles, books, and book chapters.

He has delivered more than 435 plenary and invited lectures at conferences, universities, and governmental/industrial laboratories.

Nagoya University


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