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Drug Delivery Lab
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The lab studies drug delivery, analyzing and controlling how drugs move within the body and cells.
AboutAbout the lab
Analyzing, predicting, and controlling how drugs move and act
The lab analyzes how drugs move and are eliminated in the body and within cells, and studies technologies to control that movement.
The aim is for all kinds of drugs, from small molecules to various macromolecules, to work as effectively as possible with fewer side effects.
The goal is to develop drug delivery systems (DDS) that control the movement of molecules in the body and in cells, and thereby contribute to next-generation gene and RNA drug discovery.
The lab wants to advance collaborative research with researchers outside pharmaceutical sciences, and also welcomes people who graduated from other faculties to join.
Key terms
- Drug delivery system (DDS)
- Technologies and mechanisms that bring out a drug's effect by controlling how it moves in the body and in cells.
- Gene and RNA drug discovery
- Developing therapeutics for disease using nucleic acids such as genes and RNA.
- ssPalm
- A lipid-like material that responds to the intracellular environment, breaks through biological membranes, and self-degrades. It was developed by this lab.
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The lab analyzes how drugs act and are eliminated in the body and in cells, and develops DDS that control that movement. As its core technology, the lab is developing nanomedicines that use lipid-like materials that function in response to the intracellular environment.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment and Applications of the Lipid-like Material ssPalm
The lab has developed ssPalm, a lipid-like material that responds to the intracellular environment, breaks through biological membranes, and self-degrades. Using it as a key component, the lab creates charge-neutral vectors for delivering genes and nucleic acids, and is working on tuning their structure and expanding their applications.
*Illustrative imageIn Vivo Immunoengineering
Building on its nucleic acid and small-molecule delivery technologies, the lab is developing technologies to efficiently deliver genes and nucleic acids into immune cells, instruct them with antigen information, and activate them. By manipulating immunity in the body, the lab aims to treat intractable diseases such as cancer and inflammatory diseases.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Drug Delivery Lab are faculty, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and technical assistants.As of 2025
- ProfessorHidetaka Akita
- Associate ProfessorHiroki Tanaka
- Assistant ProfessorKazuto Shimoya
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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: “Redox-Responsive Drug Delivery” BioRender.com / CC0 (cropped)
- Development and Applications of the Lipid-like Material ssPalm: “RGD-Modified Nanoparticle Binding to an Integrin” Lisa Zlanino / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- In Vivo Immunoengineering: “Dendritic Cell (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
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