Hiroshi Sakagami
Hiroshi Sakagami received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo. He worked for 17 years in the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Showa University, with a 3-year post-doctoral stay at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY. Since 1997 he has been working as a professor at the Division of Pharmacology, Meikai University School of Dentistry, and also as the director of Media Center and chairman of an international exchange program. His research interest includes the structure and the biological function of the lignin-carbohydrate complex (LCC), the application of LCC-containing plant extract to oral diseases, and the quest for the compounds that specifically kill oral squamous cell carcinoma.