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Drug Discovery Physical Properties Lab
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The lab, a collaborative chair with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, studies how to evaluate and improve the physical properties of pharmaceuticals.
AboutAbout the lab
Evaluating and improving the physical properties of drugs
The Drug Discovery Physical Properties Lab studies new technologies for evaluating the physical properties of pharmaceuticals, and methods for improving those properties.
Its research also covers analytical methods and property evaluation methods that contribute to drug manufacturing, as well as the digital technologies related to them.
The lab also works on improving adherence, including devices that use property evaluation technologies and non-oral routes of administration.
The lab also conducts analytical and physical property research related to regulatory science.
It is a collaborative chair in pharmaceutical sciences at the Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and its partner organization is Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.
Key terms
- Physical properties
- The physical and chemical properties of a drug, which affect how easy it is to use as a medicine
- Adherence
- A patient's attitude of understanding their treatment and continuing to take medication as prescribed
- Regulatory science
- A field that scientifically evaluates the efficacy and safety of drugs and other products, and connects this to decisions on approval and regulation
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies new technologies for evaluating the physical properties of pharmaceuticals, and strategies for improving those properties with the aim of creating drugs. It also works on analytical methods that contribute to drug manufacturing, on improving adherence, and on regulatory science.
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The research organization page of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences lists the lab's professor as affiliated with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.As of 2026
- ProfessorKatsuhiko Yamamoto
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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: “Concerta tablets in Japan” Zohang Yuriy / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Pharmacy Practice Lab): “Julie Zinihite at the pharmacy at the National Referal Hospital in Honiara, Solomon Islands 2012. Photo- AusAID ( )” Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Clinical Pharmaceutics Lab): “Hospital Pharmacy” User:Mattes / Public domain (cropped)
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