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Kazuki Saito graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1977 and obtained PhD for bio-organic chemistry/biochemistry of pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Tokyo. After staying in Keio University in Japan and Ghent University in Belgium (Prof. Marc Van Montagu's laboratory), he began molecular biology and biotechnology of plant primary and secondary metabolism in Chiba University in Japan. He has been appointed as a full professor since 1995 at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, until now. Since 2005, he has been further involved as the Group Director to establish the Metabolomics Group in the RIKEN Plant Science Center, now renamed the Center for Sustainable Resource Science since 2013. He is now additionally appointed as Deputy Center Director.His current research interests are metabolomics-based functional genomics, biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology of primary and secondary metabolism in plants. Recent focus has been put on the development of integration of multi-omics emphasizing metabolomics. By means of this integrated approach, he is engaging in biosynthetic/metabolic study of a wide-range of plant products; e.g., sulfur-containing compounds, amino acids, flavonoids, phenolics, alkaloids and terpenoids. For his distinguished research, he was awarded The Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan in 2010, selected as one of American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) TOP AUTHORS in 2010, awarded The Award for Distinguished Research from Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology in 2011, selected as Highly Cited Researchers (Plant & Animal Science) by Thomson Reuters in 2014, and awarded The JSP Award from The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy in 2014.