Toyota Masatsugu

Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama UniversityCity

Toyota Masatsugu graduated from the Department of Physics in the Nagoya University School of Science in 2002. He completed a master’s degree in materials science (physics) at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, in 2004. He then completed his doctorate in cell signaling and medical studies, earning a PhD in medicine in the same university’s Graduate School of Medicine in 2008. Toyota served as a JSPS Research Fellow and JST PRESTO researcher at Nara Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, among other institutions, before taking up his current position in 2022. Toyota’s numerous awards include the Early Career Award in Biophysics from the Biophysical Society of Japan in 2015, the Young Scientists Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2017, the Encouragement Award from the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists in 2024, and the Shimadzu Encouragement Award and the Okazaki Prize in 2025.Last Updated: 2026.04

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