Tokyo Tech
Laboratory for
Chem. and Life Sci.
Department of
Materials Science
and Engineering

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Tomohisa Sawada
Associate Professor

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 Affiliation & Address
 
Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
Institute of Innovative Research
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Address:R1-27, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
Phone:+81-45-924-5230 Fax:+81-45-924-5230
E-mail:sawada.t.ak@m.titech.ac.jp

 
 Profile  
 


(Birth: Jan. 1982)
2005 B.S. The University of Tokyo
2007 M.S. The University of Tokyo
2010 Ph.D. The University of Tokyo
2007-2010 JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
2010-2011 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2011-2016 Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
2016-2018 Lecturer, The University of Tokyo
2018-2022 Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo
2022-present Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2020-present JST PRESTO Researcher (concurrent)

Awards
2018 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists
2020 Best Teaching Award, Sch. of Eng., The Univ. of Tokyo
2020 The Young Scientists’ Award, MEXT commendation, Japan


 
 Recent Publication
 
 For all the publication lists, please see the Researchmap page.

  • E. Tsunekawa, Y. Otsubo, Y. Yamada, A. Ikeda, N. Adachi, M. Kawasaki, A. Takasu, S. Aramaki, T. Senda, S. Sato, S. Yoshida, M. Fujita,* T. Sawada*
    X‐ray and Electron Diffraction Observations of Steric Zipper Interactions in Metal-Induced Peptide Cross‐β Nanostructures
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 16160-16165.

  • T. Sawada,* M. Fujita
    Orderly Entangled Nanostructures of Metal-Peptide Strands
    Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2021, 94, 2342-2350.

  • Y. Inomata, T. Sawada,* M. Fujita*
    Metal-Peptide Nonafoil Knots and Decafoil Supercoils
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 16734-16739.

  • T. Sawada,* W. Iwasaki, M. Yamagami, M. Fujita*
    Parallel and antiparallel peptide β-helices controlled by metal-induced folding and assembly
    Nat. Sci., 2021, 1, e10008.

  • A. Saito, T. Sawada,* M. Fuijta*
    X-ray Crystallographic Observation of Chiral Transformations within a Metal-peptide Pore
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 20367-20370.

  • T. Sawada,* M. Fujita*
    Folding and Assembly of Metal-linked Peptidic Nanostructures
    Chem, 2020, 6, 1861-1876.

  • Y. Inomata, T. Sawada,* M. Fujita*
    Metal-Peptide Torus Knots from Flexible Short Peptides
    Chem, 2020, 6, 294-303.

  • T. Sawada,* Y. Inomata, K. Shimokawa, M. Fujita*
    A metal-peptide capsule by multiple ring threading
    Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 5687.

  • T. Sawada,* A. Saito, K. Tamiya, K. Shimokawa, M. Fujita*
    Metal-peptide rings form highly entangled topologically inequivalent frameworks with the same ring- and crossing-numbers
    Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 921.

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