PROFESSOR SO IWATA

KYOTO University

Professor So Iwata is a professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, and also serves as a group director of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center. He specializes in structural biology of membrane proteins and has solved the structures of more than 25 physiologically and medically important membrane proteins. Many of them are known as important drug targets. He has also recently created a system using the Japanese X-ray free electron laser SACLA to observe the dynamics of proteins in crystals with atomic resolution and very high temporal resolution.