Shunsuke A. SakaiBioinformatics · Cancer informatics
Shunsuke A. Sakai

Shunsuke A. Sakai

酒井俊輔
Research Scientist, Division of Translational Informatics, Exploratory Oncology Research & Clinical Trial Center (EPOC), National Cancer Center JapanVisiting Researcher, Self-Care Implementation Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

I work on cancer informatics and spatial omics, aiming to connect bioinformatics with clinical medicine.

BioinformaticsCancer informaticsSpatial transcriptomicsSpatial omicsMetagenomicsTool development
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News

  • Gave an oral presentation on SPATNIC at IIBMP2026 (Sagamihara) and co-chaired the young researchers' session.
  • Selected for the AIST Kakusei Project (FY2026) and joined AIST as a Visiting Researcher.
  • Gave an oral presentation on SPATNIC at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Medical AI (Tokyo).
  • Two co-authored papers were published in Cancer Science. Two Japanese review articles (腫瘍内科, BIO Clinica) were also published.
  • Joined the Division of Translational Informatics, EPOC, National Cancer Center Japan as a Research Scientist.
  • Received a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the University of Tokyo, with the Dean's Award and the Doctoral Dissertation Special Encouragement Award.
  • First-author paper published in British Journal of Cancer. doi
  • First-author paper on SpatialKNifeY (SKNY) published in PLOS Computational Biology. doi
  • The JMAI 2024 award was featured on the GSFS (UTokyo) website. link
  • The IIBMP2023 award was featured on the GSFS (UTokyo) website. link
  • QINDAO version 2 released. link
  • Website launched.