Director

Yusuke Tominari is responsible for the overall success of a business entity or other organization and for making top-level managerial decisions as a CEO. He launched FIMECS with his colleagues in 2018 as a curve-out biotech from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. He started his career of a medicinal chemist at Takeda in 2006 after getting a Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in Japan. His expertise is medicinal chemistry in immunology, oncology and immuno-oncology areas, Natural product synthesis and Chemical biology (Bifunctional molecules, Photo-affinity labeling probes, Cleavable linkers and others). Through his thirteen years of the pharmaceutical experience, he has contributed 2 out-licensing and 1 IND filing as a leader of medicinal chemistry. He is currently having a big challenge, “Drugging Undruggable Targets” by the targeted protein degradation technology with a proprietary RaPPIDS platform.

Kanae Gamo is leading overall operations of R&D activities as a CSO. She co-founded FIMECS with her colleagues in 2018 as a curve-out biotech from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. She started her career at Takeda in 2009. She has expertise in many techniques of molecular biology, genetics, epigenetics and next-generation sequencing in oncology and immunology areas. Through her nine years of pharmaceutical experience at Takeda, she increased responsibility of roles across target identification and validation. In parallel with FIMECS work, she got Ph.D. at University of Tsukuba in 2020. Utilizing proprietary drug discovery platform, RaPPIDS, to internal and collaborative programs, FIMECS seeks to provide life-saving medicine to patients all over the world.

Mikio Kawahara has joined UTokyo IPC, the investment arm of the University of Tokyo, since 2016 and has led investment and business development. He has joined FIMECS since 2020 as an outside director.
He has 25+ years’ experience in bio/medical (therapeutics/ medical devices / diagnostics) and deep technology (ICT/ AI/ hardware/ semiconductor) industries with broad knowledge of science and technology.
He received M.E. in Engineering from The University of Tokyo, and MBA/MEM from Northwestern University.

Yusuke Miyazaki is a member of FIMECS’s board of directors since 2020. He is Principal at ANRI, a seed/early stage VC in Japan, and responsible for investment in biotechnology companies. Prior to joining ANRI/FIMECS, he was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, and involved in mainly new business development in Healthcare area. Prior to BCG, he was a Research scientist at Nikon and Stanford. He received his B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from The University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.

He is an attorney registered in 2008 after graduating from Keio University Graduate School of Law in 2007. After UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, Purdue University Graduate School, Preferred Networks, Inc. and Mercari Inc., he established LAB-01 Law Office in 2019. Serving as the representative attorney at the firm, he also serves as the CEO at Cohh Inc., a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo Institute for Future Initiatives, a board member of various startups, and a policy advisor to the government and local public bodies.