Motoichi Kurisawa received his PhD degree from the School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), in 1998. He joined the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR, in 2003, and is currently a Team Leader and Principal Research Scientist. He is a recipient of the outstanding paper award from the Journal of Artificial Organs in 1997 and 2002, and won the Grand Prize at The Crown Prince Creative, Innovative Product and Technical Advancement (CIPTA) Awards in 2015. He has served on the editorial board of the journal Biomedical Materials since 2016.
