Kazunori Hoshino

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Professor Hoshino studies nano/micro-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS) for biomedical applications. The two focus areas are: (1) Nano and microscale mechanical sensing and optical imaging. Microfabricated mechanical sensors and actuators are strong tools for biomedical analysis. He has created several types of micro-scale mechanical manipulators for the analysis of live microtissues and cells. He integrates his expertise in image analysis and numerical analysis to open up a unique research area, namely microscale robotics for tissue engineering. (2) Detection and analysis of cancer cells. He investigates smart microfluidic systems to capture and analyze cancer cells. He developed a system that successfully separated cancer cells from clinical blood samples of patients with breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancer.

He co-authored a textbook, Molecular Sensors and Nanodevices, from Elsevier (1st edition in 2013, 2nd edition in 2018), and has more than 110 peer-reviewed publications. He is the inventor of 6 US patents and 12 Japanese patents.