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Kusamori Lab
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A lab that turns living cells into effective and safe medicines.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding cells, learning from cells, and creating new drugs from cells
The Kusamori Lab studies the development of "cell-based medicines," in which living cells are administered to patients to cure disease.
Using pharmaceutics, drug delivery systems, and cell and tissue engineering, the lab aims to turn cells into effective and safe "medicines."
Using somatic stem cells and iPS cells, the lab controls which type of cell a stem cell becomes and builds tissue-like constructs, and also works to clarify biological phenomena in which cells are involved.
The lab is also developing "mitochondria-based medicines," which use mitochondria, the organelles inside cells, to cure disease.
Key terms
- Drug delivery system
- Technology for delivering a drug to the necessary place in the body, at the necessary time, and in the necessary amount. Abbreviated as DDS
- Mesenchymal stem cells
- Stem cells found in bone marrow, fat, and other tissues, which can turn into bone, cartilage, fat, and other cell types
- Suicide gene
- A gene that causes the cell itself to die when a specific drug is given. It is used to stop transplanted cells from proliferating too much
- Mitochondria
- Organelles inside cells that produce the energy needed to live
NewsLab news
A doctoral student won the Best Oral Presenter award (1st Place) at IPNaCS & IPoPS 2026
A paper with a doctoral student as first author has been accepted for publication in iScience
A student received the Best Presenter Award at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan
A press release was issued on the paper on lymph node regeneration by cell transplantation (Nature Communications)
A doctoral student received the Best Presentation Award at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Immunology
ResearchResearch themes
With the aim of developing "cell-based medicines," a new approach to drug discovery, the lab studies how to turn cells into effective and safe "medicines." It also works on therapies that use mitochondria and on developing drug delivery systems that deliver drugs to where they are needed.
*Illustrative imageDelivering drugs with mesenchymal stem cells
The lab develops disease therapies that take advantage of the tendency of mesenchymal stem cells to gather at inflamed tissue and cancer. By introducing genes into the cells and modifying the cell surface, it gives mesenchymal stem cells new functions.
*Illustrative imageCell therapy with controllable proliferation
To make cell transplantation safer, the lab is developing a mechanism that uses a suicide gene to control cell proliferation. It is also studying how to encapsulate cells in an optimal form so that transplanted cells can survive for a long time.
*Illustrative imageMitochondria-based medicines
The lab is developing methods to treat disease using mitochondria taken out of cells.
*Illustrative imageTechnology to deliver drugs to where they are needed
Targeting low-molecular-weight compounds, proteins, nucleic acid drugs, nanoparticles, exosomes, and more, the lab develops drug delivery systems that deliver a drug to the necessary place, at the necessary time, and in the necessary amount.
MembersFaculty
The Kusamori Lab's members consist of faculty, secretaries, visiting researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorKosuke Kusamori
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Line of culture flask ( )” Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier from USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Delivering drugs with mesenchymal stem cells: “Human mesenchymal stem cells” Evilonan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cell therapy with controllable proliferation: “Sodium alginate beads in a beaker” Angel Mathew / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Mitochondria-based medicines: “Mitochondria, mammalian lung - TEM” Louisa Howard / Public domain (cropped)
- Technology to deliver drugs to where they are needed: “Liposome” Kosi Gramatikoff w:user:kosigrim / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (秋田研究室): “Pick and Inhaler, Any Inahler” Alan Levine / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (和田・佐藤(一)研究室): “Liberty Blue CEM” Chrumps / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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