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Kikuchi Lab
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A lab that aims to develop medical materials that interact with living bodies, using polymer materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing medical materials that interact with the living body.
The Kikuchi Lab studies the design of functional polymer materials, biomaterials, and drug delivery systems, all based on polymer materials.
Biomaterials are medical materials used in contact with the living body, as typified by artificial organs.
By controlling the interactions between materials and biological components, the lab aims to develop new biomaterials that can separate and analyze target biological components and perform diagnosis and treatment.
Key terms
- Biomaterial
- A medical material used in contact with the living body. Artificial organs are a typical example, and designing the surface properties and shape is important
- Drug delivery system
- Technology that delivers a drug to a target site in the body and controls how it is released. Also written as DDS
- Hydrogel
- A gel-like material that contains a large amount of water. In this lab, it is prepared from proteins and polysaccharides
NewsLab news
Paper selected for the Inside Front Cover of Journal of Controlled Release
Received the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to develop new materials that allow the functions of the living body to be fully exploited, by designing the surface properties and shapes of biomaterials and controlling their interactions with biological components. Research themes include analyzing the interactions between stimuli-responsive functional interfaces and living bodies, controlling drug release from soft materials, and establishing simple analytical methods for biomarkers.
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- ProfessorAkihiko Kikuchi
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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: “Growing razors 01 inorganic layer growing on biomaterial” Jan Ozimek / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Medical applications of functional microparticles and hydrogels: “Cellulose acetate polymeric microparticles prepared by encapsulation methods” Biomatlab.fe / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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