Takahiro Yano
Co-Founder President CEO at Endless Biopolymers Inc.
Tokyo, United States
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Top SchoolTakahiro Yano is a life sciences founder and scientist-executive with 14+ years of experience translating biochemical and microbiological research into funded drug-discovery and diagnostic projects. As Co-Founder and CEO of Endless Biopolymers and former senior scientist/project leader at Vironika and RMH Sciences, he has led antiviral and antibiotic discovery programs, secured multiple NIH SBIR/STTR awards as PI, and shepherded candidates from hit ID to development. Trained as a PhD chemist, he combines deep mechanistic expertise in enzymology, protein chemistry and bioengineering with hands-on assay design, HTS, and novel diagnostic platform development. He excels at project planning, budgeting, and cross-disciplinary team leadership, having designed research facilities and run international collaborations across academia, national institutes, and industry. Less obvious is his track record of turning fundamental biophysics discoveries (e.g., complex I and ATP synthase work) into practical screening assays and patentable technologies that drive business outcomes. Based in Tokyo with a global footprint, he pairs rigorous academic pedigree with entrepreneurial grit to accelerate early-stage biotech programs.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology
English, Japanese
Github Skills (56)
pytorch10
deploying10
python10
machine-learning-models10
mxnet10
machine-learning10
sagemaker10
huggingface10
aws10
amazon10
render9
jinja29
tensorflow9
argparse9
amazon-sagemaker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
speg03/shishakai_bot
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 16 pushes, 5 tags in 3 years 4 months
speg03/coursera-machine-learning
Aug 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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