Akiko Koide (小出明子) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health. She is an expert in protein engineering, directed evolution and microbiology with >25 year experience in cutting-edge research. Together with her husband, Professor Shohei Koide, she has established the Monobody system, technology to generate small synthetic binding protein based on fibronectin type III domain that achieves potency that rivals antibodies. She is known as the mother of all Monobodies. In parallel, she has made important contribution to the development of synthetic antibodies, technology to develop antibodies without the use of animals. Using these powerful technologies, she has been developing novel therapeutics against cancer. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo (農学部農芸化学科), Japan, and has published >70 peer-reviewed articles. She is the proud mother of two amazing daughters.
