Mitsuji Yamashita has completed his PhD in 1972 from Nagoya University, Japan, and Post-doctoral studies from Toyota Science and Chemistry Research Center, Japan, and Iowa State University, USA. He was a visiting professor of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, and a visiting researcher of Oxford University, UK, in 1994. He started his studies on phospha sugars in 1973 and promoted to be a Professor of Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1996 and retired at the age of 65 years to be a professor emeritus of Shizuoka University, Japan. His research field is now focused on medicinal materials based on chemistry of carbohydrates and phosphorus compounds to develop phospha sugar antitumor agents and sugar dendritic Gd-DTPA MRI contrast agents so as to be clinical use for innovating in cancer therapy. He has published more than 180 papers and patents as well as four books. Mitsuji Yamashita has completed his PhD in 1972 from Nagoya University, Japan, and Post-doctoral studies from Toyota Science and Chemistry Research Center, Japan, and Iowa State University, USA. He was a visiting professor of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, and a visiting researcher of Oxford University, UK, in 1994. He started his studies on phospha sugars in 1973 and promoted to be a Professor of Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1996 and retired at the age of 65 years to be a professor emeritus of Shizuoka University, Japan. His research field is now focused on medicinal materials based on chemistry of carbohydrates and phosphorus compounds to develop phospha sugar antitumor agents and sugar dendritic Gd-DTPA MRI contrast agents so as to be clinical use for innovating in cancer therapy. He has published more than 180 papers and patents as well as four books.

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