Biography
Masaharu Somiya is an Associate Professor at IMRAM, Tohoku University. He is interested in computational protein design, protein editing, drug delivery using bio-inspired nanomaterials (viruses, VLPs, and extracellular vesicles). Ex-visiting scholar at Neil King’s laboratory at Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, to study protein design for drug delivery (2022-2024).
Interests
- Protein design
- Drug delivery
- Extracellular vesicles
- Membrane fusion
- Nanoparticles
- Viruses
Education
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Doctor (Agriculture), 2016
Nagoya University
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Master (Agriculture), 2013
Nagoya University
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Bachelor (Engineering), 2011
National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College
Projects
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Experience
Associate Professor
IMRAM, Tohoku University
Working on design of synthetic fusogens, synthetic organele biology, protein editing, and more!
Associate Professor
SANKEN, Osaka University
Working on design of synthetic fusogens and protein nanoparticles
Visiting Scholar/JSPS Overseas Fellow
At Neil King lab, I was working on the protein design for drug delivery applications
Assistant Professor
SANKEN, Osaka University
At Shun’ichi Kuroda’s Lab, I was working on the drug delivery using bio-inspired nanoparticles
JSPS Research Fellowship (SPD)
National Cancer Center Research Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher
National Cancer Center Research Institute
At Takahiro Ochiya’s Lab, I was working on the bovine-milk derived EVs for the drug delivery application
JSPS Research Fellowship (DC1)
Nagoya University
At Shun’ichi Kuroda’s Lab, I was working on the hepatitis B virus-inspired virus-like particles for drug delivery
Accomplishments
2025 The University of Osaka Prize (Young Investigator Prize)
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ISEV Scholarship 2021
Outstanding Team Presentation
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Recent Posts
Recent Publications
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(2018).
Biocompatibility of highly purified bovine milk-derived extracellular vesicles.
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.
(2021).
Reporter gene assay for membrane fusion of extracellular vesicles.
bioRxiv.
Skills
Biochemistry
Protein design
Molecular bioloby
Cell bioloby
Bioimaging
Nanoscience
Playing with cats
Contact
- +81-22-217-5848
- Katahira 2-1-1, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577