Curriculum Vita



Professor Okamoto received a Ph.D. in 1994 from Tokyo Institute of Technology under the direction of Professor Takashi Inoue. Following post-doctoral stay in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Sci. & Tech., Kyushu, he joined the faculty at Toyota Technological Institute.
He is recipient of the "Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004" for Biopolymer-based Nanocomposites. In addition, he has received "Royal Society Joint Project Award" from Royal Society/UK in 2009 and "Science and Technology Award 2019" for Anticancer activity of Natural Rubber Latex and application in regenerative medicines from The Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan.
Recently, he is an associate editor of Journal of Functional Biomaterials, Journal of Unexplored Medical Data, and Vice-president of The Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan.
His research covers aspects of nano-structured materials, tissue-based bio-composites, and cancer cell biology, publishing over 150 scientific publications with more than 17,500 citations, registered numerous patents and a number of books. (h-index: 46; Web of Science, 2020).