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Dr. Akihiro Imamura

 

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Akihiro Imamura received his B.Sc. degree (2001) and Ph.D. degree (2006) from Gifu University under the supervision of Professor Makoto Kiso. From 2006 to 2009, he joined the CREST project (Japan Science and Technology Corporation) and the iCeMS (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University) project at Gifu University as a postdoctoral fellow. In February of 2009, he joined Dr. Todd Lowary’s group. His current interest is the synthesis of biologically relevant carbohydrates containing furanose such as Araf, Galf, and GalfNAc.