B. Enginnering, University of Okayama, 1986 M. Engineering, University of Okayama, 1989 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical　School/Massachusetts General Hospital　(1994 - 1997) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo (SUNY)　(1997–2002) Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo (SUNY) (2002–2003) Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (2003–2004) Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (2005–2010) Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo (2010-present)

Bioorganic Chemistry

Y. Goto, T. Katoh H. Suga* "Flexizymes for genetic code reprogramming" Nature Protocols, in press (2011) T. Kawakami, A. Ohta, M. Ohuchi, H. Ashigai, H. Murakami, H. Suga* "Diverse backbone-cyclized peptides via codon reprogramming" Nature Chemical Biology, 5, 888-890 (2009) Y. Goto, H. Suga, "Translation initiation with initiator tRNA charged with exotic peptides" Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, 5040-5041 (2009). H. Murakami, A. Ohta, H. Suga* "Bases in the anticodon loop of tRNA(GGC)(Ala) prevent misreading" Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 16, 353-358 (2009). T. Kawakami, H. Murakami, H. Suga* "Ribosomal synthesis of polypeptoids and peptoid-peptide hybrids" Journal of American Chemical Society 130, 16861-16863 (2008).

H. Xiao, H. Murakami, H. Suga, A. R. Ferre-D'Amare "Strcutural basis of specific tRNA aminoacylation by a small in vitro selected ribozyme" Nature 454, 358-361 (2008).