Bio
Dr. Nobuyuki Matoba received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Life Science from Kyoto University, Japan in 2001. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (2000-2002) and was selected again for a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad (2004-2006).
Since he came to ASU in July 2001, Dr. Matoba has been working on a project with Dr. Tsafrir Mor and Dr. Charles Arntzen to create a mucosal subunit vaccine designed to prevent mucosal transmission of HIV-1.
In conjunction with his previous five years of HIV vaccine research, Dr. Matoba is currently providing key leadership in new projects, including the development of new generation vaccines and microbicides against major human diseases that are posing serious global health concerns, with the main focus on HIV/AIDS. His projects are propelled by various technologies, including recombinant DNA, protein engineering, phage display and protein expression/production utilizing E. coli, insect and plant cells. Dr. Matoba’s research goal is to help improve human life in developing countries by bridging basic and applied sciences.
Dr. Matoba’s research interests include: developing vaccines and microbicides against human diseases; searching for novel immunomodulators; and exploring various prokaryotic/eukaryotic recombinant expression systems.