Organizing Committee Member
Haruo Sugi
Professor
Tokyo University
Japan
Biography
Dr. Haruo Sugi was born in 1933 in Tokyo, and graduated from Postgraduate School of Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo with Ph.D. degree in 1962, and appointed to be Instructor in Physiology at the University of Tokyo. From 1965 to 1967, Sugi stayed in USA as a research associate at Columbia University and as a visiting scientist in NIH. In 1973, he became Professor and Chairman in the Department of Physiology, Teikyo University. From 1994 to 2006, Dr. Sugi was chairman of Muscle Commission in the International Union of Physiological Sciences. In 2004, he retired from his position in Teikyo University, and is now Emeritus Professor of Teikyo University.
Research Area
EM recording of hydrated myosin head movement coupled with ATP hydrolysis