Hideo Tsukada

Hideo Tsukada received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Pharmacology, Shizuoka Collage of Pharmacy, Shizuoka, Japan, in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. He is currently with the Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. He was sent to the National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba, Japan, on a mission to research positron emission tomography (PET), from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1991, he was sent to the PET Centre, Uppsala University, directed by Prof. B. Langstrom, Uppsala, Sweden, to research the applications of PET technology for drug discovery and development. In 1991, he returned to Hamamatsu, and established the PET Center, Hamamatsu Photonics, in 1992, which was the first PET facility owned by a private company, and being dedicated for basic PET research with experimental animals not for clinical use and conducted PET studies from preclinical to clinical stages. He has been a Visiting Professor with the Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, since 2007, and the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, since 2006. He is currently an Adviser of CREST and ERATO projects of Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan. He has published over 250 papers. He has received the Society for Nuclear Medicine, in 2009, and the Japan Molecular Imaging Award, in 2010.