Dr. Tadashi Kondo National Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan E-mail : takondo@gan2.res.ncc.go.jp Web-site :

Tadashi Kondo is currently a Project Leader at Proteome Bioinformatics Project, the National Cancer Center Research Institute.

Dr. Kondo graduated from Okayama University Medical School, and received M.D. and Ph.D. degree. He started cancer proteomics using 2D-PAGE in his Ph.D. course, and had postdoctoral training in the University of Michigan.

Dr. Kondo has a major interest in application of cancer proteomics to biomarker development for personalized medicine. He has established the largest gel-based proteomics laboratory in Japan, identifying proteins associated with important clinico-pathological features by collaborating with many clinicians and pathologists. He takes a proteomics part of Genome Medicine Database of Japan (GeMDBJ), where omics data are integrated with disease data. Recently he has been elected as a board member of the Japanese Cancer Association, and Japanese Electrophoresis Society.