Tetsuya KonishiTetsuya Konishi is Professor Emeritus in Functional and Analytical Food Sciences at NUPALS, Japan. After graduating from Tokyo College of Pharmacy, he completed his graduate research working on radioactive tracer in drug metabolism as a research assitant at the college's physical pharmacy department. After obtained his PhD degree in Pharmaceutical sciences, Prof Konishi joined Dr. Lester Packer's lab as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley where he engaged in membrane bioenergetics research on halobacterial rhodopsin. In 1985, he obtained a professor position and established the radiopharmaceutical science lab at Niigata College of Pharmacy, where free radical biology and molecular biological researches were developed. In 2001, he was involved in establishing the Food Science department in NUPALS and started food function study using antioxidant traditional oriental medicine formula as a food model. His current research topics are the food functions modulating DNA damage responses and aging, especially cell cycle checkpoint kinases and their application in complementary medicine and cancer treatment. He has published over 150 papers in peer reviewed journals, serves as reviewer and editor of several scientific journals, and has been chairing the International Niigata Symposium on Diet and Health since 2004. Read More Read Less