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Cellular Metabolic Chemistry Lab
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A lab that uses its own original techniques to analyze lipids that are hard to measure, with the aim of contributing to health.
AboutAbout the lab
Contributing to health through new methods for evaluating lipids.
The Cellular Metabolic Chemistry Lab (Advanced Lipid Analysis Laboratory) uses its own original techniques to analyze lipids, and substances involved in lipid metabolism, that cannot be analyzed in ordinary clinical laboratories.
Lipid peroxides involved in arteriosclerosis and inflammation, plasmalogens involved in brain function, and antioxidants that enter the body from food are present in small amounts and are unstable, which makes them difficult to analyze.
The lab has developed its own evaluation methods using high-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry, antibodies, cultured cells, and model animals, and has built up a system for analysis.
The lab carries out joint research with companies in food, pharmaceuticals, and clinical testing as well as with other research institutions, and also works on developing foods that improve lipid metabolism.
Key terms
- Lipids
- A group of body components that do not dissolve easily in water, including oils, fats, and cholesterol
- Plasmalogens
- A type of phospholipid that is abundant in the brain and other tissues. Its relationship to brain function is being studied
- Mass spectrometer
- An instrument that turns substances into electrically charged particles and measures their mass, in order to determine what is present and how much
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Young Investigator Excellent Poster Award at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Medical Mass Spectrometry
Doctoral and master's students received the Best Poster Award at ICATS-FHM2026
Professor Hui received the 2025 Hokkaido University Yoshie Katsurada Award
A master's student received the Young Investigator Excellent Presentation Award at the 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Mibyou (Pre-symptomatic Conditions)
Associate Professor Gowda received the Encouragement Award of the 2025 Society Awards from the Japan Society of Clinical Chemistry
ResearchResearch themes
The lab analyzes lipids and substances involved in lipid metabolism using its own advanced techniques, and also develops foods that improve lipid metabolism. Its research covers plasma lipoproteins, bioactive lipids, abnormalities of lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, functional foods, and metabolomics using mass spectrometry.
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The Cellular Metabolic Chemistry Lab consists of faculty members, specially invited professors, research fellows, doctoral and master's students, research students, and fourth-year undergraduates.As of 2026
- ProfessorShuping Hui
- Associate ProfessorToshihiro Sakurai
- Associate ProfessorBome Gowda Siddabasave Gowda
- Assistant ProfessorDivyavani Gowda
- Project Assistant ProfessorAkiko Sakurai
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