Masahiko Yamaguchi was born in 1954 in Fukuoka, Japan. He received his BSc (1977) and PhD degrees (1982) from the university of Tokyo under guidance of professor T. Mukaiyama. He joined Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1982 as an assistant professor and was promoted to an associate professor in 1985. During1987 to 1988 he worked as a post doctorate fellow in Yale university with Professor S. Danishefsky. He moved to the department of chemistryinTohoku university in1991.In 1997, he was appointed a professor in the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences of Tohoku university, and then professor of graduate school of pharmaceutical sciences.Hewasprofessor of the graduate school of science of the same university during 2006-2012, and a professor of WPI-AIMR during 2007-2012. During 2007-2012, he was a group leader of GCOE program for chemistry in Tohoku university. He is Dean of the graduate school of pharmaceutical sciences since 2014 April. He received theChemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists in 1986 and the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award, Japan in 2007.
Research interest
1) Transition metal catalysed synthesis of organosulfur and organophosphorus compounds
2) Synthesis and property of helicenes
3) Synthesis and property of built-up macromolecules
4) Development of organic materials and biomaterials
