Hirokazu Sugiyama, Ph.D.

Hirokazu Sugiyama studied chemical engineering at the University of Tokyo (BEng in 2001, MEng in 2003), and earned PhD from ETH Zurich (2007).Subsequently he joined F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, and held different positions in a start-up facility of biological drug product manufacturing with increasing responsibilities. His last position was Head of Prefilled Syringe Production. In 2013 Dr. Sugiyama was appointed as an associate professor at the Department of Chemical System Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. His research is on process systems engineering for pharmaceutical process design and operation with covering small molecules, biopharmaceuticals, and regenerative medicine.