Gota Kawai - Professor
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Gota Kawai received undergraduate and doctorate degrees in Biophysics and Biochemistry from the University of Tokyo (Faculty of Science) with Prof. Tatsuo Miyazawa for NMR analysis of modified nucleotides in tRNA.
He moved to Yokohama National University with Prof. Miyazawa who retired the University of Tokyo as his research assistant to continue the NMR work as well as to start his new project on the allo-protein in 1989.
After Prof. Miyazawa moved to the Protein Engineering Research Institute (PERI), GK moved to the University of Tokyo (Faculty of Engineering) in 1991 and continue to the work on NMR of RNA.
In 1997, GK moved to Chiba Institute of Technology to start new project on RNA structural biology, including HIV-1 DIS, SRP RNA, tmRNA and so on. In 2000, new project on X-ray crystallography was also started.