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Neurosurgery Lab
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A neurosurgery lab that explores cerebrovascular disease, brain tumors, and more from both clinical and basic research perspectives.
AboutAbout the lab
Everything is for the patients.
The Neurosurgery Lab studies cerebrovascular disease, brain tumors, regenerative medicine, medical AI, and more.
The lab began in 1964, when Prof. Suzuki, its first Professor, and colleagues started clinical practice at the Nagamachi Branch Hospital (now Kohnan Hospital).
Its activities center on clinical care, education, and research, with the goal of training neurosurgery specialists, researchers, and educators.
As a pillar of training for young physicians, the lab's policy is, in principle, for all of its medical staff to obtain board certification in neurosurgery and a doctorate in medicine.
Key terms
- Moyamoya disease
- A cerebrovascular disease of unknown cause that is designated as an intractable disease. It was named by Prof. Suzuki, the lab's first Professor
- iPS cells
- Artificially created stem cells that can turn into various types of cells
- Muse cells
- Pluripotent stem cells that move on their own to damaged tissue and differentiate into cells suited to that tissue to carry out repair
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The Neurosurgery Lab advances basic and clinical research in specialist areas such as cerebrovascular disease, brain tumors, regenerative medicine, and medical AI, in collaboration with many research departments and facilities. It also studies head trauma, epilepsy surgery, and the development of surgical medical devices.
*Illustrative imageClinical and Basic Research on Cerebrovascular Disease
The lab studies cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral infarction, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage from both clinical and basic perspectives. For moyamoya disease, it was the first to identify a disease susceptibility gene, and it is working to elucidate the pathology using genetically modified mice and patient-derived iPS cells.
*Illustrative imageExploring Brain Tumors Through Genes
With patients' consent, the lab analyzes the genes of brain tumors removed in surgery to investigate their causes and pathology. It has shown that anticancer drugs are highly effective in patients with abnormalities in specific genes, and this finding is now applied in treatment.
*Illustrative imageNeural Regenerative Therapy with Muse Cells
The lab is developing neural regenerative therapy for cerebral infarction and spinal cord injury using Muse cells. A phase II clinical trial for cerebral infarction showed that a Muse cell-based product is safe and effective for patients in the subacute phase.
*Illustrative imageMedical AI for Neurosurgery
In collaboration with Tohoku University clinical AI, the lab conducts research on solving medical challenges in neurosurgery with AI technology. Examples include research on predicting complications and outcomes at discharge from patient information, and the development of systems that support disease diagnosis and surgery using image data.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty (including faculty from the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering), faculty from affiliated graduate school programs, Clinical Professors and Clinical Associate Professors, residents, staff physicians, and graduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHidenori Endo
- Associate ProfessorMasayuki Kanamori
- Professor (Industry-Academia Collaboration Office, EDAS)Atsuhiro Nakagawa
- Professor (Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Neural Regeneration Engineering / Graduate School of Medicine, Neuropathology and Neural Control)Kuniyasu Niizuma
- Associate Professor (Neuropathophysiology and Regulation)Hiroyuki Sakata
- LecturerShinichiro Osawa
- In-hospital LecturerYuki Shimoda
- Assistant Professor (Medical AI Center)Shinya Sonobe
- Assistant ProfessorRyosuke Tashiro
- Assistant ProfessorShota Yamashita
- Assistant ProfessorRyuzaburo Kochi
- Project Assistant ProfessorDaisuke Ando
- Associate Professor (Neural Regenerative Medical Engineering, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering)Sherif Rashad
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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: “Operating-room 1” 연세건우병원 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Clinical and Basic Research on Cerebrovascular Disease: “Computed Tomography (CT) Scan Facility in Navi Mumbai” Goleisureintl / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Exploring Brain Tumors Through Genes: “DNA-Sequencers from Flickr 57080968” Flickr user jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Neural Regenerative Therapy with Muse Cells: “Neural Stem Cells” Welcome Collection / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Medical AI for Neurosurgery: “PDC server room” Esquilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Neurology Lab): “PET MRI Scanner (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Malcolm Houston / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Urology Lab): “New Da Vinci Xi” Alvarogarciamd / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tumor Biology Lab (Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer)): “Bacterial cell culture on agar plate ( DNA double helix conformation)” Syed Sajidul Islam / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Gastroenterological Surgery Lab): “Laparoscopic Hand Instruments 001 JPN” ignis / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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