Principles of Solid-State Biosensing Devices

Yuji Miyahara is Director of the Bioelectronics Group at the Biomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science in Japan, as well as Professor at the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Miyahara has received several scientific awards, including the 6th Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize from the Foundation for the Promotion of Material Science and Technology of Japan. His scientific interests include solid-state biosensors, micro total analysis systems and bioelectronics. Toshiya Sakata is a Lecturer at the Center for NanoBio-Integration and at the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Having obtained his Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, he spent most of his career working for the National Institute of Materials Science in Japan before taking up his present position at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Sakata has authored over 20 scientific publications and has received several scientific awards, including the 6th Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize from the Foundation of the Promotion of Material Science and Technology of Japan. Akira Matsumoto is Assistant Professor at the department of Bioengineering, University of Tokyo. Having obtained his degrees in Material Science from The University of Tokyo, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Boston. He then returned to the University of Tokyo where he was offered his current position. Professor Matsumoto's scientific interests include functional (intelligent) material design, interface issues between material-biology and inorganic-organic, and Tissue Engineering.