Hideaki Nagase 9th General Meeting of the International Proteolysis Society 2015

Hideaki Nagase

Hideaki Nagase is Honorary Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Biotechnology, Amrita University, Kollam, India. He was Professor and Head of Matrix Biology at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology of University of Oxford from 2011 till 2014. Prior appointments include Professor of Matrix Biology at Imperial College London, UK, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Kansas Medical Center, USA and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA. He holds a B.Sc. in Pharmacy from Tokyo College of Pharmacy, a M.Sc. degree in Physiological Chemistry from Science University of Tokyo in Japan and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Miami, USA. He received his postdoctoral training at Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK and Dartmouth Medical School, USA. He was elected as an Honorary Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians in 2004. He investigates the structure and function of matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) and their roles in cartilage matrix destruction during the progression of arthritis.