Wataru Tomosugi

Nikon Corporation
Healthcare Business Division, Technology Management Department

Q1. What do you do?

 I am in charge of system design of microscope systems for laboratories. As a project leader of a microscope system, I am currently working hard every day to bring out a new microscope that can meet the expectations of everyone.

Q2. What have you applied to your current work from what you learned at Nagai Lab, and how has it been utilized.

 Prof. Nagai gave me the opportunity to discover trivial phenomena even in the results of experiments that seemed to be complete failures, and find a new way of the next experiment for me. In our work, if we work hard without understanding the essence of what we are doing, we may get accidental successes, but failures will always happen inevitably. Even if the results of research (or work)seem to be failure, by thinking that I should positively control myself and use these experience to my next research (or work), I became more tolerant of failure and prepared for it. When I deeply understood that the concept of failure itself was actually just a process of success, I grew into a person who will not fail from a wide point of view. lol

Q3. Message to juniors

 As I did, most of the experimental results may be not good for us. So, put your chin on your hand and ask yourself in your low voice, "What is the essence of this failure? (This is important.) There may be a great discovery hidden in it that you never thought of.