Kenji Tsuge graduated from the Saitama University Department of Applied Chemistry in 1993. He received his doctorate from the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering in 1998. After a fellowship at the Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences Kenji worked as an senior lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences Keio University. He has served as an associate professor at the Kobe University Graduate School of Science Technology and Innovation from 2016 through 2020. Inventor of the OGAB method Kenji is one of Synplogen’s founders and has served as company director since the company’s creation in February 2017.