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
Physiology and Biophysics Yuichiro Fujiwara Principles of operation of ion channels, receptors and transporters, Electrophysiology, Structural biology, Intermolecular interaction, Biosensor, Artificial ion channel creation, Channelopathy
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    
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 Shingo Fukuma Big health data, epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, behavioural science, clinical epidemiological research in hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, epidemiological research, and genetic analysis for infectious diseases such as hepatitis virus and new coronavirus, international collaborative epidemiological research, blood services and blood donation promotion
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
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


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