• Department of Medical Education
• School of Medicine
• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Edinburg, Texas 78541
• Email: shizue.mito@utrgv.edu
• Tel: 956-296-2301
• Office: ETBLC 2.108

“Do or do not. There is no try.”––Yoda
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."––Walt Disney

Education
1993 B.S., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
1995 M.S., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
2004 Ph. D., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan

2005 – 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
2004 – 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan


Work Experience
2025 – present Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
2023 – 2025 Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
2015 – 2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
2008 – 2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso
2001 – 2004 Graduate Research Assistant, Catalytic Research Center, Hokkaido University and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan
1995 – 2001 Research Scientist, Material Science Laboratory, Toray Research Center Inc. Shiga, Japan
1993- 1995 Pharmacist

Shizue's short biography
Shizue wrote her short biography in Japanese. It was published in Chemistry & Chemical Industry (Kagaku to Kogyo), which is a monthly newsletter/journal of the Chemical Society of Japan.
Japanese Original (pdf)
English translation (pdf)

English translation by Shizue.