Noriaki Emoto

Noriaki Emoto, MD, PhD, is Professor at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and at the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmaceutical Science at Kobe Pharmaceutical University. After his residency as a cardiologist in Kobe University Hospital, Japan, he conducted his graduate studies and postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Masashi Yanagisawa in Dallas, Texas. He won the Louis N. Katz Basic Science Research Prizes of the American Heart Association in 1994 for the molecular identification and characterization of endothelin-converting enzymes, ECE-1 and ECE-2. He moved back to Kobe, where he leads his own laboratory as a physician-scientist. His group is staffed by two medical associate professors, three postdoctoral fellows and medical PhD students from various countries. His major research interest is the translational research of endothelin. He is a member of Endothelin International Advisory Board. He is a member of a board of directors in Japanese Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary hypertension Society. He chaired the Thirteenth International Conference on Endothelin (ET-13) held in Tokyo in 2013 and the Sixteenth International Conference on Endothelin (ET-16) held in Kobe in 2019.