Yukie Akune-Taylor

Biography

Trustee, Tokai National Higher Education and Research System; Provost, Nagoya University; Director, Institute for Glyco-core Research

He graduated from Kyushu University School of Medicine in 1982 and joined the Department of Pediatric Surgery; received his M.D. in 1989, was an NIH fellow in 1990, and returned to Japan in 1993.

He became a professor (Department of Biochemistry) at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in 2004 and was appointed Dean of the same school in 2017; became Director of the Institute for Glyco-core Research in 2021 and Trustee, Tokai National Higher Education and Research System; Provost, Nagoya University in 2022.

In recent years, his research has focused on glycans and neuronal axon regeneration. Seeking a broader perspective, he proposed the Human Glycome Atlas Project, which he continues to work on to this day.

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