Yoshitaka Ishii 23rd International Society of Magnetic Resonance Conference 2023

Yoshitaka Ishii

Yoshitaka Ishii (Yoshi) has contributed to the fields of NMR spectroscopy, chemistry, and structural biology for his development of solid-state NMR (SSNMR) methods such as 1H-detected SSNMR using fast MAS and paramagnetic SSNMR as well as for his SSNMR-based structural studies on amyloid fibrils/oligomers and graphene based nano-systems. Yoshi is currently a Professor of Life Science and Technology at Tokyo Institute of Technology and a principal investigator at BDR Center, RIKEN in Japan. After receiving a Ph. D. from Kyoto University, Japan for his work at Prof. Takehiko Terao’s lab, he moved to the U.S. to work with Dr. Robert Tycko at the NIH as a postdoc in 1998. Then, he set up his own lab at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2001, where he developed ultra-fast MAS approaches for paramagnetic systems and proteins. He was a Professor in Chemistry and the Director of UIC Center for Structural Biology when he left Chicago in 2016 to move to Japan. Yoshi’s lab has recently succeeded in developing a 1.01 GHz NMR system with his colleagues at RIKEN and JEOL as a vital steppingstone for a 1.3 GHz NMR system. His lab also continues to work on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s related amyloid aggregates by high-field SSNMR in combination with cryoEM and other methods.