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Regenerative Medicine (Junji Fukuda) Lab
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The lab creates tissues and devices for regenerative medicine using microfabrication and cell culture.
AboutAbout the lab
Using engineering to build tissue that can be transplanted
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, medical diagnostics, and more.
In particular, the lab works on fabricating three-dimensional tissues with vascular networks using electrochemical reactions, fabricating liver tissue from iPS cells, and hair regeneration.
The lab also researches on-chip cell culture and its functional evaluation, as well as biofuel cells.
Prof. Fukuda believes that engineering design and technology are essential to realizing regenerative medicine and bioartificial organs.
Key terms
- Regenerative medicine
- A new form of medicine that uses cells themselves for treatment.
- Tissue engineering
- A technology that uses cells to create 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.
ResearchResearch themes
To address the global shortage of donors, the lab works on tissue engineering, creating tissues and organs outside the body from cells. Combining engineering design with electrochemical reactions and measurement, microfabrication technology, and more, it develops technologies to realize regenerative medicine and bioartificial livers.
*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 imageRegenerating hair
Research on creating hair follicle germs, the seeds of hair follicles, outside the body is active, and it has been found that transplanting them into model animals can regenerate hair. Using a culture device it developed itself, the lab works to elucidate the mechanism of regeneration and improve regeneration efficiency.
*Illustrative imageAiming to treat diabetes with pancreatic β cells
Type 1 diabetes is caused by an excessive immune response against pancreatic β cells. The lab studies culturing these β cells outside the body, forming higher-order tissues such as spheroids and cylindroids, and transplanting them to help treat diabetes.
MembersFaculty
Members of Fukuda Lab are faculty, a lab manager, a ROUTE 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: “YPD petri dishes” Ns takes photos / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Building blood vessel structures outside the body: “Blood vessels-3D rendering” Antonino Paolo Di Giovanna / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Building liver tissue outside the body: “Hepatocyte (NIH BioArt 202)” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
- Regenerating hair: “Humanhairfollicle400x6” John Alan Elson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Aiming to treat diabetes with pancreatic β cells: “Islet Cell Transplant” BruceBlaus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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