Office
(631) 632-1339
Email
Iwao.Ojima@stonybrook.edu
Stony Brook University
Department of Chemistry
717 Chemistry
100 Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Iwao Ojima, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
Stony Brook University
Director, Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
Research Program
Oncogenic Drivers and Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Department
Research Interest
Dr. Ojima has a long track record of successful research projects in the area of drug discovery and medicinal chemistry of anticancer agents, especially in the taxane-based agents, tumor-targeted drug delivery, nano-drug delivery systems, and chemical biology. He has also been successfully promoting multidisciplinary drug discovery and development projects on fatty acid binding protein (FABP) inhibitors for next-generation anticancer agents. He has also been promoting computer-aided drug design and in silico screening/predictions for efficient drug discovery. One next-generation taxane of his invention advanced to the phase IIb human clinical trials, and a FABP inhibitor of his invention is currently in phase I/II human clinical trials. Another next-generation taxane with nanoemulsion formulation is about to begin human clinical trials.
Education
BS: The University of Tokyo
MS: The University of Tokyo
PhD: The University of Tokyo