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Immune Cell Therapy Lab
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A research team that clarifies the relationship between cancer and immunity, aiming for clinical application.
AboutAbout the lab
Harnessing the power of immunity to treat cancer.
The Immune Cell Therapy Lab studies the mechanisms that enhance and regulate immune function in cancer and other diseases.
Going beyond basic research, the lab pursues translational research that leads to practical application in clinical settings.
It is working to bring to humans a new cancer vaccine cell product that elicits both innate and adaptive immunity.
The lab is a team at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (Yokohama). As a cooperative graduate school program with Chiba University, it allows students to earn a degree while doing research here.
Key terms
- Translational research
- Research that bridges the results of basic research to clinical settings, such as the treatment of patients
- Innate immunity
- Immunity that responds quickly to foreign substances entering the body, using mechanisms the body is born with
- Adaptive immunity
- Immunity that remembers foreign substances it has encountered once and attacks them in a targeted way
- NKT cells
- A type of immune cell that has the properties of both innate and adaptive immunity
NewsLab news
Discovery of the mechanism by which NK cells and killer T cells cooperate inside tumors to strengthen anti-tumor immunity
A joint research team has discovered a special type of macrophage that divides tumor immunity into two
A joint research group has clarified an important characteristic of immune cells in cervical cancer
Clarification that neoantigens, which are more easily recognized by the immune system, increase in cancers that have become resistant to drugs
Clarification that giving cancer vaccine cells multiple cancer antigens strengthens the immune response simultaneously and for longer
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research to clarify how the immune system is activated and regulated in the pathology of cancer and other diseases. Going beyond basic research, it pursues translational research that extends to practical application in the clinic.
*Illustrative imageA new cancer vaccine cell product
The lab has created a new cancer vaccine cell product, artificial adjuvant vector cells (aAVC), which can induce both innate and adaptive immunity, and is advancing research toward clinical application in humans.
*Illustrative imageTreatments using NKT cells
As other translational research, the lab is advancing iPS-NKT cell therapy and, through collaborative research, a phase II trial of NKT cells for lung cancer.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Immune Cell Therapy Lab consist of the team director, senior research scientists, research scientists, technicians, and technical staff.As of 2026
- Visiting ProfessorShin-ichiro Fujii
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Bioreactor for cell culture in the laboratory” Habin Zhang / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- A new cancer vaccine cell product: “Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma -- intermed mag” Nephron / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Treatments using NKT cells: “T Lymphocyte, also known as a T cell (yellow color)” NIAID / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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