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Molecular Epidemiology Lab (Environment and Genome Research Center)
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A lab that uses epidemiology to explore health after disasters and how diseases arise.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring health through disasters, the life course, and genetics.
The Disaster Public Health and Molecular Epidemiology divisions study preparedness for large-scale disasters, health promotion across the life course, and the mechanisms of multifactorial diseases.
Using large-scale epidemiological surveys, the lab examines topics such as the growth of children in the areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the relationship between mold and dust mites in temporary housing and allergy symptoms.
As the foundation of its research, the lab conducts the Birth Three-Generation Cohort Study, a study design that is the first of its kind in the world.
Using molecular epidemiology methods that analyze genome information and other data with artificial intelligence techniques, the lab searches for the causes of multifactorial diseases such as autism spectrum disorder.
Key terms
- Cohort study
- A research method that follows a group of people over a long period to investigate the relationship between their health status or living environment and disease.
- Molecular epidemiology
- An interdisciplinary field that builds on epidemiology and integrates genomic medicine and artificial intelligence analysis techniques.
- Multifactorial disease
- A disease caused by multiple factors, such as genetics and the environment.
NewsLab news
Correspondence manuscript published in Nature
Paper on the association between maternal fasting blood glucose in the first half of pregnancy and children's developmental traits published
Doctoral student receives the Tohoku Medical Society Scholarship Award
Doctoral student receives the Shinyu Outstanding Student Award
Paper on a skin health survey of atopic dermatitis published in Allergology International
ResearchResearch themes
This lab pursues three missions: how to confront large-scale disasters, what measures can improve health across the life course, and how to clarify the pathology of multifactorial diseases. It works using methods from public health, life course epidemiology, and molecular epidemiology.
*Illustrative imageEffects on the growth of children in disaster-affected areas
The lab assesses the growth of children in the areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and clarifies how the earthquake affected their growth. Using data from nurseries and infant health checkups, it evaluates children's growth over time.
*Illustrative imageMold, dust mites, and allergies in temporary housing
Targeting Ishinomaki City, the lab investigates the occurrence of mold and dust mites in temporary housing and elsewhere, and its relationship with allergy symptoms, particularly in children.
*Illustrative imageReducing the health damage of the next major disaster
Drawing on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab conducts research to minimize health damage in the next large-scale disaster that is expected.
*Illustrative imageGenome cohorts for precision medicine
At the forefront of cohort research that has developed from patients to residents to births, the lab is developing the Birth Three-Generation Cohort. By capturing genetic factors and environmental factors from the womb in relation to disease, it aims at risk prediction and preemptive medicine.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members include faculty, visiting professors and part-time lecturers, researchers, and research students and graduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorShinichi Kuriyama
- Associate ProfessorTaku Obara
- Associate ProfessorMasatsugu Orui
- Associate ProfessorKeiko Murakami
- LecturerMami Ishikuro
- Assistant ProfessorAoi Noda
- Assistant ProfessorGenki Shinoda
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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: “Edward & Cynthia Institute of Public Health ( ECIPH) MPH Scholars after a field visit in Mangalore” Ginevrajocosa88 / CC0 (cropped)
- Effects on the growth of children in disaster-affected areas: “Little girl of Don Som” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mold, dust mites, and allergies in temporary housing: “Temporary housing unit in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan” Yasu (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Reducing the health damage of the next major disaster: “Takase Kasano Yamamoto Town Miyagi Pref Tōhoku earthquake damage No,7” Mti / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Genome cohorts for precision medicine: “20251019 Replica DNA double helix model Berlin 03” Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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