Project Associate Professor

Physician-scientist with expertise in molecular biology and genetics, interested in oligonucleotide therapeutics. My research centers around pediatric neurology and epilepsy to treat rare neurodevelopmental disorders. Tojo Nakayama completed pediatric neurology training at the National Center for Neurology & Psychiatry (NCNP). After earning PhD in molecular genetics research on intractable epilepsy at RIKEN, he spent eight years as a postdoc at Boston Children's Hospital, working on drug discovery programs for pediatric epilepsy disorders. Since relocating to the Institute of Science Tokyo in 2022, Tojo Nakayama has been engaged in setting up the N-of-1 drug discovery research program in Japan.