Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lab

AboutAbout the lab

Understanding the body as a system to drive drug discovery

The Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lab is part of the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Tokyo Hospital, and conducts research to understand the living body as a single system.
The lab clarifies not only how each molecule that makes up the body functions, but also how these molecules combine to operate as a whole.
Using systems pharmacology approaches, the lab aims to identify effective drug targets and to predict adverse drug reactions at an early stage.
The lab also conducts clinical research on patients who visit the hospital.

ResearchResearch themes

To create more reliable and efficient next-generation drug discovery methods, the lab conducts research to understand the living body as a system. Its research topics include the transport of lipids, bile acids, and uric acid in the body; bone metabolism; molecularly targeted anticancer drugs; the molecular mechanisms of adverse drug reactions investigated through omics analysis; and the pharmacokinetics of drugs.

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Solving Drug Discovery Challenges with Systems Pharmacology↗

Using systems pharmacology approaches, the lab tackles problems that are currently difficult to solve, such as selecting the most effective drug target from among many candidate molecules and comprehensively predicting adverse drug reactions that may arise in the early stages of drug discovery.

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