Dr. Sugano (MD, PhD) is a Professor at the Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. The main emphasis of his research is to identify and collect genes of human en masse in the form of full-length cDNAs. He initiated the FLJ project of collecting and determining the entire sequences of human full-length cDNAs in 1999. He is now using second generation sequencers to characterize transcriptome landscape.
He was a Council Member of the Human Genome Organisation (2002-2008) and was Chair of Human Genome Organisation Asia Pacific during the same period.
