Research Departments

Division of Radiation Basic Science

Department	Professor	Research Keyword
Environmetrics and Biometrics	Shinji Yoshinaga
Radiation Biophysics	Hiroshi Yasuda	radiological protection, dosimetry, radiation measurement, health risk assessment, Fukushima Daiichi accident, UNSCEAR
Molecular Epidemiology	Hideshi Kawakami
Stem Cell Biology	Tomonobu Watanabe	Advanced optical imaging technology, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), radiation damage prediction
Cellular Biology	Satoshi Tashiro	Ionizing radiation, chromosome abnormalities, DNA repair, higher order nuclear architectures

 

Division of Radiation Translational Medicine

Department	Professor	Research Keyword
Disease Model	Osamu Kaminuma	Experimental animals, Immunology, Genetic modification, Genome editing, Somatic cell cloning, Radiation effects, T cell, Allergy
Genetics and Cell Biology	Shinya Matsuura	Medical genetics, Chromosome maintenance, Radiosensitivity, Primary cilia, Genome editing, Primary microcephaly
Molecular Oncology
Experimental Oncology		Radiation biology, Radiation-induced carcinogenesis, Radiation disaster medicine, Low dose radiation effects

 

Division of Radiation Medical Science

Department	Professor	Research Keyword
Radiation Disaster Medicine	Nobuyuki Hirohashi	Molecular mechanisms of hypoxic response, Genomic analyses, Nuclear/Radiation disaster medicine
Hematology and Oncology	Tatsuo Ichinohe	Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, adoptive cellular therapy, immunobioinformatics, low-dose/low dose-rate irradiation, zebrafish, mesenchymal stem/stromal cells, quality-of-life/patient-reported outcome(QOL/PRO)
Surgical Oncology	Morihito Okada	Surgical oncology, Esophageal cancer, Lung cancer, Breast cancer, Mesothelioma, Surgery, Endoscopic surgery, Thoracosocopic surgery, Chemotherapy, Chemoradiotherapy, Immunotherapy, Oncogenes, Gene therapy, PET, Biomarker, Liquid biopsy
Regenerative Medicine	Yukihito Higashi	Endothelial cell, Vascular function, Rho-associated kinase, Angiogenesis, Regenerative medicine for radiation injury

 

Affiliated Institutions ,and others

Division of Radiation Information Registry	Chief Osamu Kaminuma
Radiation Research Center for Frontier Science	Chief Shinji Yoshinaga
Center for Radiation Disaster Medical Science	Chief Yukihito Higashi

 

Collaborative Research Laboratory

Next Generation Development of Genome and Cellular Therapy Program

Cancer immunotherapy, Adoptive genome-edited T-cell therapy, Clinically usable high-fidelity artificial nuclease, Targeted T-cell genome editing, Comprehensive single-cell-based immune repertoire analyses