Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University in Japan

CEO, Rheology Functional Food Research Institute Co.& Fujino Brain Research Inc.

Founder of Plasmalogen Research Association & BOOCS Science Inc.

She was previously the CSO at a prestigious Japanese medical group for over 12 years and the COO at a biotech start-up developing Dementia Treatments.

Global head of clinical development from 2015 to 2022, helping global biotech companies enter the Japanese and US market.

700+ clinical study experience in the CNS area.

Christopher has over twenty-five years of global experience in the pharma and biotech sectors. In past years with Bayer, Abbott and Sanofi, he held executive roles in general management, sales & marketing, commercial operations, finance and human resources.

Executive expertise in commercialization of innovation, strategic and operational reviews, market analysis, business development assessments, organizational transformations and growth, customer engagement and business partnerships in developed and emerging markets.

She is a regulatory specialist, especially in orphan and rare disease drug development.

She has supported 300+ FDA and 100+ EMA Orphan drug submissions and 100+ Fast Track, Breakthrough, and RMAT submissions.

Scientist and senior leader with international experience in pharmaceutical research and a proven track record of advancing drug candidates through discovery and early clinical development in CNS areas.

Previously, she was Chief Scientific Officer in 3 medium biotech companies and Vice President and global program leader of a multinational pharmaceutical company.

M.D.Ph.D. (Internal Medicine and Neurology Specialist) Director, IRFF

At IRFF, he has developed new measurement and extraction techniques for lipids and other substances, and is engaged in the extraction and development of functional substances from food materials using these techniques. As part of these efforts, he has. developed a method for mass extraction and simple measurement of plasmalogen and discovered new polyphenols.

• 1971 D., Graduate School of Medicine, Kyushu Univ. 1972 Research Assistant, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University
• 1972 Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  (Biochemical studies of erythrocyte membranes in dystrophy)
• 1973 Fellow, Columbia University, Institute of Neurological Diseases
  (biochemical studies of erythrocyte membranes in dystrophy)
• 1976 Associate Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology
• 1981 Deputy Director, National Sanatorium Chikugo Hospital
• 1989 Director, NTT Fukuoka Headquarters or Health Management Center
• 1994 Professor, Faculty of Human Environment, Fukuoka Women’s University
• 2005 Director, IRFF

IRFF Director of Basic Research

His experience in molecular biology has led him to study neuroinflammation, memory dysfunction, diabetes, pathogenic susceptibility, cancer, and more related to aging.

• 2003 M.S. Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
• 2009 Ph.D., Chiba Univ. Graduate School of Medicine (Research on novel proto-oncogenes in tumorigenesis)
• 2003 Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmacy, Rajshahi Univ.
• 2009 Chiba Cancer Center Research Department Growth Factors in Cancer Development
• 2012 Associate Professor, Chiba Cancer Center
• 2016 Kyushu Univ. Medical Research Aging and Pathological Repair
  Associate Professor/Principal Investigator -Age-related physiological changes. -neuroinflammation, memory impairment, intestinal bacterial sac symbiosis, metabolic syndrome, immune dysfunction (NK cells, macrophages immune dysfunction (NK cells, macrophages), etc.

Graduate School of Kyushu Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Ph.D. in Science, The University of Tokyo, Dr. of Tokyo University.

• 1992-1995 Synthesis Researcher, Exploratory
  Research Dept. 5, Eisai Tsukuba Research Laboratories (Development of Novel Anticancer Drugs)
• 1995-1999 Research Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Development of catalytic asymmetric synthetic reactions using optically active phosphorus ligands)
• 1999-2002 Lecturer,
  Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Development of organic synthetic reactions using metal- olefin complexes)
• 2002-2008 Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Synthesis of bioactive compounds with phosphorus atom)
• 2008– Associate Professor,
  Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology
  (Development of new synthetic methods for
  phosphate esters; Synthesis of bioactive compounds with phosphorus atoms) [incumbent].