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	Professor: Department of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University

	3-3-35 Yamate, Suita, Osaka 564-8680, Japan

	yhiranokansai-u.ac.jp

	+81-6-6368-1111 [ext：5885]

Entered Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, April, 1982, and graduated March, 1987, with the degree of Bachelor of Engineering.
Obtained an M.S., in March, 1989 from Osaka Institute of Technology.
Received a Ph.D. in March, 1992 from Osaka Institute of Technology for a thesis entitled:
Studies on Synthesis and Evaluation of Cell-Attachment Activity of Bioactive Oligopeptides.
(PI: Prof. Akio Nakajima)

Served as a research associate (1992-1994), lecturer (1994-1998), associate professor (1998-2007), Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology.
Presently, Professor, at Kansai University (2008 to date)

Advanced Materials Letters Scientist Award (2013)
Best Poster Award of Asian Biomaterials Congress (2009)
The Award of Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Biomaterials (1996)

Grant-in-aids for Encouragement of Young Scientists,
Grant-in-aids for Scientific Research(C),
Research for Promoting Technological Seeds, 2008-2009
The Science Research Promotion Fund, 2006-2007
"High-Tech Research Center" Project for Private Universities: Matching Fund Subsidy from MEXT(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), 2008-2009.
"Strategic Project to Support the Formation of Research Bases at Private Universities”: Matching Fund Subsidy from MEXT( Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), 2010-2014.