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Regenerative Medicine (SEO JIEUN) Lab
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The lab studies devices for regenerative medicine using microfabrication and cell culture.
AboutAbout the lab
Using engineering to build tissue outside the body
Fukuda Lab uses microfabrication, surface chemical modification, and cell and tissue culture technologies to research devices that can be used in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and medical diagnostics.
The lab works on fabricating three-dimensional tissues with vascular networks using electrochemical reactions, fabricating liver tissue from iPS cells, and hair regeneration.
Prof. Fukuda holds that cutting-edge medicine cannot exist without engineering design and devices, and aims to develop medical devices, materials, and technologies.
The lab's website also uses the name "Bio Microsystem lab."
Key terms
- Tissue engineering
- A field that uses cells to build tissues and organs outside the body.
- Hair follicle germ
- The "seed" of a hair follicle. It has been found that transplanting it into mice and other animals can regenerate hair.
- Spheroid
- One form of higher-order tissue made by culturing cells outside the body. Others include cylindroids.
ResearchResearch themes
Fukuda Lab develops technologies to create, from cells in vitro, tissues that can be transplanted, aiming to realize regenerative medicine and bioartificial livers. In addition to engineering design, it uses electrochemical reactions and measurement, and microfabrication techniques such as photolithography.
*Illustrative imageBuilding blood vessel structures outside the body
Establishing a method for building vascular structures is essential for creating three-dimensional tissues such as liver and pancreas. Applying a technology that electrochemically detaches cells from gold surfaces, the lab studies how to build vascular structures outside the body.
*Illustrative imageBuilding liver tissue outside the body
This research builds liver tissue outside the body in order to fundamentally treat diseases such as fulminant hepatitis and acute liver failure. Rapid cell transfer technology enables tissue fabrication in a short time, and the lab is also working on highly functional liver tissue using iPS liver spheroids.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms and efficiency of hair regeneration
The need for treatment of alopecia is high, and research on creating hair follicle germs, the seeds of hair follicles, outside the body is active. Using a culture device it developed itself, the lab works to elucidate the mechanisms of hair regeneration and improve regeneration efficiency.
*Illustrative imageCulturing pancreatic β cells for diabetes treatment
Type 1 diabetes is caused by an excessive immune response against pancreatic β cells. The lab studies culturing β cells outside the body to form higher-order tissues such as spheroids, and transplanting them to help treat diabetes.
MembersFaculty
Members of Fukuda Lab are faculty, a lab manager, a secretary, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorJunji Fukuda
- Assistant ProfessorJIEUN SEO
- Assistant ProfessorLei Yan
- IAS Assistant Professor南茂 彩華
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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: “Hair follicle” Deset.apple / CC0 (cropped)
- Building blood vessel structures outside the body: “Arteriovenous malformation - brain - low mag” Nephron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Building liver tissue outside the body: “Organoid (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
- Mechanisms and efficiency of hair regeneration: “Hair follicle of feline - Microscopic view 2” Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Culturing pancreatic β cells for diabetes treatment: “Mouse pancreatic islet” Jakob Suckale / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Regenerative Medicine (Junji Fukuda) Lab): “YPD petri dishes” Ns takes photos / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physical Organic Chemistry and Molecular Design Lab): “Chlorophacinone-3D-molecular-model-engraved-render-CAS” MolGod Scientific / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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