Japanese

Departments of Basic Medicine

Department	Professor	Research Keyword
Anatomy and Developmental Biology	Koji Ikegami	Cilia, cytoskeleton, extracellular vesicles, cell migration, cell division, stress response, circadian rhythm, body wall formation, imaging, cell biology, developmental biology
Neurobiology	Hidenori Aizawa	Depression, Dopamine, Serotonin, Habenula, Model animals
Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine		Atherosclerosis, DNA damage, Biomedical engineering
Neurophysiology	Kouichi Hashimoto	Neuron, synapse, neuronal circuitry
Biochemistry	Kazunori Imaizumi	Endoplasmic reticulum stress, Unfolded protein response, Stress response, Biochemistry, Cell biology, Molecular biology, Neurodegenerative disorder, Skeletal diseases
Biomedical Chemistry	Tomoichiro Asano
Molecular and pharmacological neuroscience	Norio Sakai	Protein kinase C, spinocerebellar atrophy, Parkinson disease, elongation of neural processes, survival of neurons, ischemic brain disease, microglia, serotonin transporter
Molecular Pathology		Morpho-pathological genomics, Molecular diagnosis, Systemic analysis of genome, transcriptome and epigenome, Gastrointestinal cancer, Urological cancer, Novel diagnostic and therapeutic target, non-coding RNA, Cancer stem cell, Genome-editing
Pathology	Yukio Takeshima	Human cancer, Pathology, Environmental carcinogenesis, Asbestos, Mesothelioma, Lung Cancer, Pathological Diagnosis, Molecular target therapy
Virology	Takemasa Sakaguchi	virus, innate immunity, interferon, crystal structure of protein、anti-viral reagents, hepatitis B virus, amyotrophic lateralosclerosis, optineurin
Epidemiology,Infectious Disease Control and Prevention	Junko Tanaka	Hepatitis Virus (HBV, HCV, HAV, and HEV), epidemiology, disease control and prevention, theoretical epidemiology (Bayes and Markov), immune analysis of virus, effectiveness evaluation of cancer screening, blood programme and blood donation promotion, big data analysis and data health, medical statistics, global epidemiology
Public Health and Health Policy	Tatsuhiko Kubo	Public health, Occupational Health, Emergency Medical Team, International Disaster Relief, J-SPEED, WHO EMT MDS, Chronobiology, Chrono-Nutrition, Chrono-Health Science
Forensic Medicine	Masataka Nagao	Clinical forensic medicine, Child abuse, Domestic violence, Elder abuse, Drug, Chromatography, Mass spectrometry, Cell cycle, DNA damage, Epigenetics， Differentiation
Forensic Medicine	Akira Namera	Drug intoxication, Industrial poisoning, Drug dependence, Simple detection method, Chromatography, Mass spectrometry, Metabolites analysis, Drug analysis in hair
Immunology	Tomoharu Yasuda	Antigen receptor, Development of lymphocytes, Immunodeficiency, Lymphoma, Immune surveillance, Gene therapy, Allergy, Autoimmune disease