Ichiro Matsumura Email & Phone Number

Director of Protein EngineeringEager to lead groundbreaking protein engineering initiatives. With a proven track record in both corporate and academic realms, I bring over two decades of experience driving innovation and securing continuous federal funding. My leadership style is direct, decisive, and focused on fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.Key Achievements:Strategic Leadership: Spearheaded long-term, multi-disciplinary research projects, securing $4.5M in federal grants, including a top-ranked NSF Systems and Synthetic Biology grant.Industry Impact: As Associate Director at Bond Pet Foods, developed a high-throughput analytical pipeline for craft muscle proteins and proprietary selectable markers.Entrepreneurial Ventures: Founded and led teams at Emory Start-up Launch Accelerator, earning a seed grant for a poultry industry feed additive.Specialties:Protein EngineeringProject ManagementScientific IdeationInnovation ManagementLaboratory Information ManagementGrant Writing / FundraisingTechnical Reports & Scientific PublicationsEducation:M.B.A., Entrepreneurship, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, GAPh.D., Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CAB.S., Life Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MAScientific Specialties:Identifying Important QuestionsDesigning Informative ExperimentsHigh-Throughput Molecular CloningDNA PurificationProtein PurificationEnzyme Assay DevelopmentNon-Model Bacterial TransformationLeadership Style: Direct & Decisive | Socratic Questioning | Coaching & Mentoring | Team Organizing | Consensus BuildingPatents:Semi-automated Tip Snip: Cloning of restriction fragments into and out of plasmid polylinkers (Provisional Patent 2017)Effector-activated reporter enzymes for disease diagnosis (Provisional Patent 2007)Assays for identifying functional alterations in the p53 tumor suppressor (U.S. Patent 6,429,298; 2002)Let's connect and explore how my expertise can drive transformative advancements in protein engineering!

Listed skills include Molecular Biology, Pcr, Biochemistry, Protein Purification, and 5 others.