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Plastic Surgery Lab
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The lab studies plastic surgery, which aims to restore both bodily function and appearance in a more beautiful way.
AboutAbout the lab
Function and appearance, restored to be more normal and more beautiful
The lab is a surgical department that aims to restore both bodily function and appearance (aesthetic outcome) to be more normal and more beautiful.
Plastic surgery is a specialty aimed at improving quality of life (QOL), and through reconstruction after cancer surgery and similar procedures, it can greatly change patients' lives.
It is a lab with a long history: in 1978, it became the second plastic surgery department established at a national university in Japan.
Believing that plastic surgery is also an academic discipline, the lab pursues research in both basic and clinical areas.
Key terms
- Quality of life (QOL)
- The degree to which a person is able to live as themselves and feel satisfied, even during illness and treatment
- Reconstruction
- Rebuilding a body part lost through the treatment of disease or injury, for example by transferring tissue from another site
- Wound healing
- The process by which a wound from injury or surgery closes and heals through the body's own functions
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Ishikawa received the Excellent Poster Award at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies
Original paper on basic research published in Archives of Plastic Surgery
A physician of the lab received the Excellent Award of the 2025 Academic Encouragement Award from the Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Original paper on basic research published in Advances in Wound Care
ResearchResearch themes
Believing that plastic surgery is both a clinical specialty and an academic discipline, the lab conducts basic and clinical research. Its main research areas include wound healing (how wounds heal), keloids, reconstruction using tissue transfer, malignant skin tumors, regeneration of blood and lymphatic vessels, and jaw and facial surgery.
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The lab's members consist of faculty, staff physicians, graduate students, lab staff, secretaries, part-time lecturers, and visiting researchers. Physicians from the Department of Plastic Surgery at Hokkaido University Hospital also join in providing guidance.As of 2026
- ProfessorTaku Maeda
- Associate ProfessorKosuke Ishikawa
- Associate ProfessorEmi Funayama
- Assistant ProfessorMasahiro Hojo
- Assistant ProfessorYuki Sasaki
- Assistant ProfessorDongkyung Seo
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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: “Keloid - low mag” Nephron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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