Team Leader
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan
Yoshihiro Shimizu is a Team Leader in RIKEN BDR. He developed a reconstituted cell-free protein synthesis system (PURE system) in his Ph.D. research in the University of Tokyo. After supporting the commercialization of the PURE system in a startup company, he became an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo and continued his research for the development of applied techniques using the PURE system. In 2010, he started his own research group in RIKEN which aims to further apply the cell-free system for the field of synthetic biology and proteomics study.