Hidetoshi Arima
Kumamoto University, Japan
Biography
Hidetoshi Arima is Professor of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan. He received a Ph.D. in 1991 from Kumamoto University in Japan. From 1991 to 1993, he worked at Eisai Co., Ltd. in Japan. From 1993-1998, he worked at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences as research associate. In 1998, he moved to Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Kumamoto University in Japan, and then was promoted to associate professor in 2001. In 2007, he was promoted to Professor in Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University in Japan. His research interest is design and evaluation of integrated drug delivery system (DDS) based on cyclodextrins. In addition, he started to research the potential use of sacran, a supergiant cyanobacterial polysaccharide, as natural drugs and DDS carriers. Over 150 research papers and 10 patents have been published since 1986. Further growth of the DDS research is expected.