Members
Senior Assistant Professor / Lecturer
Eita Sasaki
e.sasaki_at_keio.jp
Affiliation
Analytical Chemistry for Drug Discovery, Faculty of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University
Education & Research Experience
| Apr 2022 – Present | Senior Assistant Professor / Lecturer (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University) |
| Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 | Project Senior Assistant Professor / Project Lecturer (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University) |
| Apr 2017 – Mar 2021 | Assistant Professor (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo) |
| Sep 2011 – Mar 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich) |
| Apr 2012 – Mar 2014 | JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Overseas Research Fellow (Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich) |
| Sep 2011 – Mr 2012 | Project Research Assistant (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo) |
| Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow (College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin) |
| May 2011 | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Mar 2005 | Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences (The University of Tokyo) |
| Mar 2003 | Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences (The University of Tokyo) |
Selected Publications
- Sasaki, E.; Dragoman, R. M.; Mantri, S.; Dirin, D. N.; Kovalenko, M. V.; Hilvert, D. “Self‐Assembly of Proteinaceous Shells Around Positively Charged Gold Nanomaterials Enhances Colloidal Stability in High Ionic Strength Buffers” ChemBioChem 2020, 21, 74–79.
- Sasaki, E.; Böhringer, D.; van de Waterbeemd, M.; Leibundgut, M.; Zschoche, R.; Heck, A. J. R.; Ban, N.; Hilvert, D. “Structure and Assembly of Scalable Porous Protein Cages” Nat. Commun. 2017, 8, 14663.
- Sasaki, E.; Hilvert, D. “Self-Assembly of Proteinaceous Multishell Structures Mediated by a Supercharged Protein” J. Phys. Chem. B 2016, 120, 6089–6095.
- Sasaki, E.; Zhang, X.; Sun, H.G.; Lu, M.-Y.J.; Liu, T.-l.; Ou, A.; Li, J.-y.; Chen, Y.-h.; Ealick, S.E.; Liu, H.-w. “Co-opting sulphur-carrier proteins from primary metabolic pathways for 2-thiosugar biosynthesis” Nature 2014, 510, 427–431.
- Sasaki, E.; Ogasawara, Y.; Liu, H.-w. “A Biosynthetic Pathway for BE-7585A, a 2-Thiosugar-Containing Angucycline-Type Natural Product” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7405–7417.
