Associate Professor Kaori Shigetomi (Kuribayashi)

Affiliation: Institute for the Advancement of Graduate Education

Born in Takikawa. Dosanko grown in Eniwa, Shizunai, and Sapporo. At the university, he aims to develop solar panels that can be deployed in space, and will research the unfolding and folding of lauan butterfly leaves as a model in the natural world. While studying abroad in the United States, he took a medical class and decided that he wanted to use his engineering knowledge to contribute to medical care. In his master's degree program at Hokkaido University, he conducted research on the development of medical devices, and in his doctoral degree program at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, he developed an origami stent-graft, a medical device that utilizes the folding pattern of origami. Since then, he has conducted various research as a doctor of origami engineering. After returning to Japan, at the University of Tokyo, he developed the ``cell origami'' technology, which uses micro-nano processing technology to fold cells like origami and culture them three-dimensionally. Currently at Hokkaido University, he is conducting research with the aim of applying cell origami technology to regenerative medicine.

Professor Shigetomi's research is introduced in ``Interview ``Medical x Engineering Innovation Led by Origami''''.

Professor Shigetomi's research is also introduced in ``Lecture video by Hokkaido University faculty members, ``The cutting edge of origami engineering aimed at application to the medical field.'' *Move to Yume Navi.