Prof. Takashi Inui received his Master degree in science from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1989 and joined the International Research Laboratories of Ciba-Geigy Japan Ltd. (currently Novartis Pharma Ltd.). Therein he produced brilliant scientific achievements in pharmacological sciences, leading to receiving his Ph.D. degree from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1997. After leaving the company he completed 4-year postdoctoral training in the Department of Molecular Behavioral Biology at Osaka Bioscience Institute. In 2002, he accepted an associate professor position in the Department of Food and Nutrition at Tsu City College. In 2005, he joined Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Osaka Prefecture University as an associate professor, and has been a professor since 2011 to present.

Currently, his major research interest is to investigate correlation between the structure and function of a lipocalin family protein, which serves as a transporter of lipophilic low-molecular-weight compounds, by use of a variety of physicochemical techniques. As a goal of this research, he aims at development of a new drug delivery system to effectively utilize hydrophobic drugs that have been abandoned to develop in pharmaceutical companies. Besides, he is also interested in development of inhibitors of enzymes involved in nucleic acid biosynthesis in Trypanosoma brucei, protozoa causing African sleeping sickness.

Editors-in-Chief:

Takashi Inui (Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan)  Editors Profile

Editorial Board Members:

Merzougui Abdelkrim (University of Biskra, Biskra, Algeria)

Hamid Ashkenani (Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran)

Tevfik Aysu (Yüzüncü Yil University, Van, Turkey)

Debbie C. Crans (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA)

Hadji Djebar (MT University of Saida, Saida, Algeria)

William E. Acree (University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1177-7419

Feng Yan (Soochow University, Suzhou, China)

Slobodan Gadžurić (University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia)

Georgi Gochev (Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI), Potsdam, Germany)

Mohammad Goodarzi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel-VUB, Brussels, Belgium)

Reza Hosseinzadeh (University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)

Medhat Ahmed Abdel-Khalek Ibrahim (National Research Center, Giza, Egypt)

A. Ghasem Jouyban (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran)

Chi-wai Kan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

Carlos Lafuente (Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3632-6822

Chunxi Li (Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), Beijing, China)

Marcela Raquel Longhi (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina)

Luis Lugo (Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain)

Fleming Martínez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)

Edward Muntean (University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj Napoca, Romania)

Ime Bassey Obot (University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria)

Maria Elisabete C.D. Real Oliveira (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)

Mihalj Poša (University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia)

Tasnim Nisarahmed Shaikh (The M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda, India)

Evgeni B. Starikov (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

Shahid Bader Usmani (Mylan Pharmaceuticals ULC, Ontario, Canada)

Philip Verwimp (Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium)

Yue Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)

Chengliang Xiao (Soochow University, Suzhou, China)

Feng Yan (Soochow University, Suzhou, China)