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Ophthalmology Lab
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A lab that aims to prevent blindness through clinical care and research on eye diseases.
AboutAbout the lab
Working in clinical care, research, and education to prevent blindness.
The Ophthalmology Lab is part of the Tohoku University School of Medicine, and works on clinical care and research for eye diseases and on the training of physicians.
Clinical care, research, and education are its three main pillars, and through research the lab aims for true prevention of blindness.
Its research includes developing neuroprotective therapies, developing drug delivery systems, developing treatments for retinal diseases, and identifying the causative genes of hereditary diseases.
A distinctive feature of the lab is that physicians, researchers in science, engineering, and pharmacy, researchers from companies, and international students work in the same place and discuss their research together.
Key terms
- Neuroprotective therapy
- Treatment aimed at slowing or preventing the damage and loss of nerve cells
- Drug delivery system
- Technology for delivering a drug to the place in the body where it is needed
- Translational research
- Research that turns results from basic research into a form that can be used in actual clinical care and delivers them to patients
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The lab believes that research is essential for creating new medical care for intractable eye diseases that existing treatments cannot resolve, and it aims for true prevention of blindness. Its policy is to strongly promote translational research, which brings research results back to clinical practice. This description is based on the professor's greeting on the lab website (written around 2011).
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Ophthalmology Lab consist of faculty members, staff physicians, residents, graduate students, part-time lecturers and part-time physicians, research fellows, orthoptists, technical assistants, and secretaries. Faculty members from the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization and from endowed departments also join the lab.As of 2026
- ProfessorToru Nakazawa
- Professor (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)Nobuo Fuse
- Specially Appointed Professor, Associate ProfessorHiroshi Kunikata
- Associate ProfessorParmanand Sharma
- Associate Professor (Department of Regenerative Biomedical Engineering)Noriko Himori
- Associate Professor (Ophthalmic Precision Medicine Development)Satoru Tsuda
- LecturerFumihiko Nitta
- LecturerYu Yokoyama
- Assistant ProfessorMasayuki Yasuda
- Assistant ProfessorNaoko Aizawa
- Assistant ProfessorKazuko Omodaka
- Assistant ProfessorWataru Kobayashi
- Assistant Professor (Endowed Chair of Advanced Ophthalmic Medicine)Kota Sato
- Assistant Professor (Endowed Chair of Retinal Disease Control)Hiroshi Tawarayama
- Assistant ProfessorNeelam Kaushik
- Assistant ProfessorAiri Takagi
- Assistant ProfessorKazuki Hashimoto
- Assistant ProfessorNaoki Takahashi
- Assistant ProfessorMasataka Sato
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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: “Ophthalmological Checking Up” Mahmoud Amer / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Neuroprotective therapy and development of new treatments: “Ultrasonic Research Laboratory” Radvino / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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