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Personalized Prevention and Epidemiology Lab (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)
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A lab that investigates risk factors and prevention methods for disease through cohort studies of local residents.
AboutAbout the lab
Watching over residents' health today to build the medicine of tomorrow.
The lab is in charge of the community-based cohort study of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project.
It evaluates risk factors for conditions such as cardiovascular disease and depression, which are feared to increase as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and feeds the results back to the people who took part in the study.
By evaluating combinations of constitution, genes, and environmental factors, the lab aims to develop future-oriented medicine that contributes to establishing new preventive methods and treatments.
Key terms
- Cohort study
- A study that follows a specific group of people over a long period to examine the relationship between lifestyle and other factors and the onset of disease
- Risk factor
- A factor that raises the probability of developing a disease, such as lifestyle or constitution
- Future-oriented medicine
- Medicine that examines combinations of constitution, genes, and environmental factors and links them to new preventive methods and treatments. This is the goal the lab has set
NewsLab news
A graduate student received the Best YIA (Young Investigator Award) at the 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Assistant Professor Masahito Takase received a YIA (Young Investigator Award) Excellence Award at the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hypertension
Assistant Professor Rieko Hatanaka received the Encouragement Award for Female Researchers at the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hypertension
Lecturer Mana Kogure received the Best YIA (Young Investigator Award) at the Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
A School of Medicine student received the 2024 School of Medicine Student Scholarship Award
ResearchResearch themes
The lab is in charge of the community-based cohort study of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project. It evaluates risk factors for diseases that are feared to increase as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake. It also evaluates combinations of constitution, genes, and environmental factors, aiming to contribute to establishing new preventive methods and treatments.
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MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of full-time faculty, faculty from cooperating departments and concurrent appointments, project researchers, and part-time lecturers.As of 2026
- ProfessorAtsushi Hozawa
- LecturerMana Kogure
- Assistant ProfessorRieko Hatanaka
- Assistant ProfessorKumi Nakaya
- Assistant ProfessorIppei Chiba
- Assistant ProfessorMasahito Takase
- ProfessorNaoki Nakaya
- Project Associate ProfessorKotaro Nochioka
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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: “Pacific Partnership 2024-1- Community Health Engagement in Fefan (8196722)” U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob Woitzel / Public domain (cropped)
- Community-Based Cohort Study: “Amrika KC, a Female Community Health Volunteer from Salyan district, talks with would-be mothers about the importance of regular antenatal checkups” USAIDNepal / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Public Health Lab): “Blood pressure measurement (1)” Víctor Santa María from Buenos Aires, Argentina / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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