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Clinical Epidemiology Lab (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)
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A clinical epidemiology lab that uses a birth three-generation cohort to study health from the fetal period through adulthood.

AboutAbout the lab
Bringing cohort study findings into the clinical setting.
The lab aims to return findings from cohort studies to clinical practice.
Based on the birth three-generation cohort study, the lab conducts research that looks at the entire life course, from the fetal period to adulthood.
It analyzes the safety of medications during pregnancy and lactation, maternal and child health, and the risk of developing lifestyle-related diseases.
Making use of genomic and real-world data as well, the lab advances research that leads to next-generation preventive medicine and personalized medicine.
Key terms
- Cohort study
- A research method that follows the same group of people over a long period to examine the relationship between lifestyle or environment and health
- Perinatal epidemiology
- The study of the health of mothers and children from pregnancy through the period around childbirth, investigating causes and effects using population data
- Real-world data
- Healthcare data routinely collected in actual clinical settings and elsewhere. It is distinguished from clinical trial data
ResearchResearch themes
To return findings from cohort studies to clinical practice, the lab works on generating evidence and putting it into practice in society. Its main research areas are perinatal epidemiology, life-course epidemiology, and perinatal pharmacoepidemiology.
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The lab's staff consist of a Professor, together with Associate Professors, Lecturers, and Assistant Professors who hold concurrent appointments.
- ProfessorTaku Obara
- Associate ProfessorMasatsugu Orui
- 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.
- Top image: “Mother and newborn baby, Moscow, Russia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Research Using the Birth Three-Generation Cohort: “Pregnant woman” Ken Hammond (USDA) / Public domain (cropped)
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