Mitsuji Yamashita
Shizuoka University
Japan
Biography
Mitsuji Yamashita was born in 1944 and has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Nagoya University, Japan, and postdoctoral studies from Iowa State University, USA. He was a visiting professor of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, and a visiting researcher of Oxford University, UK, in 1994. He was promoted to be a professor of Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1996 and retired at the age of 65 years to be a professor emeritus of Shizuoka University, Japan. His research field is now focused on medicinal materials based on chemistry of carbohydrates and phosphorus compounds regarding phospha sugar antitumor agents and sugar dendritic Gd-DTPA MRI contrast agents for innovating in cancer therapy. He has published more than 180 papers and patents as well as four books.