Masashi Suganuma MD, Ph.D
Founder, Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer

Masashi has been a medical doctor for 30 years, with about 20 years of research and drug discovery experience. He is currently the President and Director of Medical Corporation Suganuma Clinic, Founder / President Director of KOINOBORI Associate Inc. After training as a surgeon, he studied the cell cycle as a postdoctoral fellow at the Molecular Medicine Institute, School of Medicine, Nagoya City University. Based on these research results, he founded a drug discovery venture company in 2000. As a representative director, he raised funds of 4 billion yen. In business development, he put together an eco-development agreement with a major pharmaceutical company of a lead compound (distribution of net profit separately from royalty by joint development and co-promotion). He also has experienced non-clinical and clinical study in the US. He succeeded IPO for the Mothers in 2009.