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Drug Lifetime Management Lab
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The lab studies how to use good medicines correctly and nurture them well over their lifetime.

AboutAbout the lab
Skillfully nurturing a drug's life
The Drug Lifetime Management Lab studies ways to help medicines that have reached the market realize their full potential.
This approach is called Drug Lifetime Management (DLM).
The lab analyzes post-marketing information collected from healthcare and nursing care settings, homes, and pharmaceutical companies, aiming to apply it to the proper use of medicines and to post-marketing drug development.
The lab also works on building educational systems to train the people who will carry out DLM.
Key terms
- Post-marketing drug development
- Using marketed drugs correctly, discovering new adverse effects and new ways of use, and thereby nurturing the drugs to make them better
- Pharmacy preavoid
- Efforts by pharmacists, through dialogue with patients and other means, to prevent or reduce adverse drug reactions before they occur
- Qualitative research
- A research method that interprets actual conditions from words and cases gathered through interviews and observation, rather than from numerical data
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The lab collects and analyzes information from after drugs go on the market, and conducts research to promote their proper use and post-marketing drug development. Its themes clarify the roles of pharmacies and pharmacists and the value of drugs to society.
*Illustrative imageDrug Evaluation Based on Social Costs
The lab develops new evaluation methods that measure the broad value of drugs, such as ease of use in clinical settings, nursing care costs, and the burden on patients and families, and clarifies how value and cost to society differ from product to product.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the Roles of Pharmacies and Pharmacists Through Qualitative Research
The lab identifies the needs expected of pharmacies and the services they provide, and uses qualitative research to clarify how these contribute to patients' treatment and health, while also considering differences in practice across regions.
*Illustrative imageClassification Model for Pharmacy Preavoid Cases
The lab aims to analyze the numerous and varied pharmacy preavoid cases efficiently and objectively with a machine-learning classification model, and to apply the results to pharmacist education and patient-oriented pharmacy services.
*Illustrative imageEconomic Evaluation of Pharmacy Preavoid
The lab systematically analyzes cases of pharmacy interventions with a classification model and quantifies the economic value of each type of intervention. It aims to build a foundation for properly evaluating pharmacists' professional skills.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Drug Lifetime Management Lab consist of faculty, part-time lecturers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, researchers, academic specialists, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorHiroki SatohPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorSayo ItoPublications ↗
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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: “Kaisei Pharmacy Nagata Higashi-Osaka” Mr.ち
ゅらさん / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Drug Evaluation Based on Social Costs: “NanningTianchiShanPharmacy” Félix An / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the Roles of Pharmacies and Pharmacists Through Qualitative Research: “LAMAT 2026- Guyana, U S Pharmacy Team play critical role in building lasting care (9588466)” U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Stephani Schafer / Public domain (cropped)
- Classification Model for Pharmacy Preavoid Cases: “Multiclass classification” SoroushJahanzad / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Economic Evaluation of Pharmacy Preavoid: “Qol Pharmacy Tennoji” Mr.ち
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