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Exercise Science Lab
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A lab that explores health and physical performance through physical activity, exercise, and nutrition.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring health and physical performance through exercise and nutrition.
The Exercise Science Lab uses physical activity, exercise, sports, nutrition, diet, and lifestyle as its keywords, working to improve physical performance, including athletic performance, and to solve health-related problems.
Research is carried out using knowledge and techniques from a wide range of fields, from the cellular level to the population level, depending on the research theme.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under two names: the "Sports and Health Science" division in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and the "Exercise Science" division in the Graduate School of Medicine.
Students are free to choose their own research themes and are not limited to the lab's current main themes.
Key terms
- Physical activity
- Any bodily movement, such as walking or doing housework. Exercise and sports are part of it
- Biomedical engineering
- A field that combines medicine and engineering to address medical and health challenges
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Yoshida received the "3rd Prize in the Presentation Competition" at Powerpenia Conference 2026
A paper by Associate Professor Kim and colleagues was published in Frontiers in Physiology
A study examining the association between BMI and frailty was published in BMC Public Health
Associate Professor Yoshida received the "JMPB 2025 Emerging Scholar Paper of the Year Award" (Journal for the Measurement o…)
A paper by Associate Professor Yoshida and colleagues was published in BMC Public Health
ResearchResearch themes
The Exercise Science Lab uses physical activity, exercise, sports, nutrition, diet, and lifestyle as its keywords, and draws on knowledge and techniques from a wide range of fields, from the cellular level to the population level, to improve physical performance, including athletic performance, and to solve health-related problems. Students are free to choose their own research themes and are not limited to the main themes currently being pursued.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, a lab secretary, cooperating faculty, visiting faculty, project faculty, JSPS Research Fellows, Tohoku University NEXUS Research Fellows, doctoral and master's students, research students, and undergraduates.As of 2026
- Professor, Distinguished ResearcherYosuke Yamada
- Associate ProfessorTsukasa Yoshida
- Associate ProfessorHyeon-Ki Kim
- Project Associate ProfessorHitoshi Kumagai
- LecturerTakahiro Ito
- LecturerYuki Nishida
- Project Assistant ProfessorYusen Nakayama
- Project ProfessorHiroshi Kawashima
- Project Associate ProfessorTomomi Nakamura
- Project Associate ProfessorRie Tsutsumi
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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: “Exercise Treadmill Convey Motion” Larry D. Moore / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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