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Chief Operating Officer: Jason H. Sakamoto, Ph.D.
Dr. Sakamoto runs the daily operations of the Alliance for NanoHealth and serves as the primary contact. If you are interested in learning more about the Alliance, please feel free to contact Dr. Sakamoto (Contact Information Below).
Dr. Sakamoto
is a native Northern Californian recently transplanted to Houston,
Texas. In 1997, he graduated with a B.S. in Material Science
Engineering from The University of California at Berkeley under the
mentorship of Dr. Mauro Ferrari. Dr. Sakamoto entered
the medical device industry after graduation and was employed as a
coronary and peripheral stent manufacturing and process engineer at the
Guidant Corporation in Santa Clara, California. In 2000, Dr.
Sakamoto rejoined Dr. Ferrari and pursued his doctorate in
Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University. During his
graduate school career, Dr. Sakamoto investigated innovative
computational approaches for the molecular analysis of breast cancer
through the utilization of targeted nano-particle ultrasonic contrast
agents. Also during this time, Dr. Sakamoto founded a biotech startup
upon his research and funded this entrepreneurial venture by entering
and winning numerous business plan competitions across the nation that
amounted to over $135,000 in cash and services.
Upon completion of his Ph.D., Dr. Sakamoto remained as a
post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Ferrari’s research group and also
worked as a business development consultant for several biotech
start-ups. Furthermore, Dr. Sakamoto served as the acting
President of the International Society of BioMEMS and Biomedical
Nanotechnology (ISBBN). In 2006, Dr. Sakamoto merged
the ISBBN with the American Academy of Nanomedicine where he now serves
on the Board of Directors.
Currently, Dr. Sakamoto is positioned as the Chief Operating Officer of the Alliance for NanoHealth (ANH), a consortium of research institutions of the Texas Medical Center and Greater Houston Region dedicated to the commercialization of nanotechnology aimed to solve some of medicines most challenging problems.
Contact Information:
Jason Sakamoto, Ph.D.
The Alliance for NanoHealth
Chief Operating Officer
1825 Herman Pressler Street
Suite 537A
Houston, Texas 77030
Tel: (713) 500-2466
Fax: (713) 500-2462
Cell: (614) 378-3456
Senior Staff Asisstant:
Victoria Herrera
Tel: (713) 500-3368
Fax: (713) 500-2462
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