Masakazu Tsuchiya, PhD Charles River Laboratories

Dr. Masakazu Tsuchiya has been with Charles River since2007 in the Research and Development, Endotoxin and Microbial Detection. He has more than 25 years experience in the detection of endotoxin and other microbial cell wall components at Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd, Osaka, Japan, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC, USA, Wako Chemicals USA Inc., St. Louis, MO, USA, and Charles River, Charleston, SC, USA. He holds a doctorate of Agriculture and a MS degree in Food Science and Technology from Kyoto University, Japan. His notable achievement is development of tools for microbial cell wall components, such as an endotoxin-specific LAL reagent, a -glucan-specific LAL reagent, and the Silkworm Larvae Plasma (SLP) reagent to detect peptidoglycan and -glucan.