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Iwasaki Lab
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The lab uses biomedical engineering to develop advanced therapeutic devices and methods to evaluate them.
AboutAbout the lab
The future of medicine, opened up by biomedical engineering.
The Iwasaki Lab pioneers the boundary between mechanical engineering and medicine, working on the development and evaluation of advanced therapeutic devices.
Beyond developing new therapeutic devices, the lab builds unprecedented test systems that replicate patients' physical conditions.
It uses these test systems for the efficient development of therapeutic devices, and also works on methods to evaluate their efficacy and safety.
Through joint research with physicians working on the front lines of clinical care, the lab pursues research directly tied to real-world medicine.
Key terms
- Biomedical engineering
- A field that combines medicine and engineering to create devices and technologies for diagnosis and treatment
- Decellularized tissue
- Animal-derived tissue from which the cellular components have been removed, leaving only the three-dimensional structure of the extracellular matrix
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- A technology that analyzes the motion of fluids using mathematical equations, making invisible flows visible through calculation
NewsLab news
The first case of a randomized controlled trial was carried out for a tissue-regenerating ligament for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using decellularization technology.
A master's student received the Encouragement Award at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biorheology.
A paper by a student who completed the doctoral program at the joint graduate school was published in the Journal of Robotic Surgery.
A paper by a doctoral student at the joint graduate school was published in Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics.
A master's student received the Conference Encouragement Award at the 35th Frontier Lecture Meeting.
ResearchResearch themes
The Iwasaki Lab develops advanced therapeutic devices that bring together cutting-edge technologies. It also develops test systems that simulate patients and works on methods to evaluate the efficacy and safety of therapeutic devices.
*Illustrative imageRegenerative Medicine Using Decellularized Tissue
The lab studies the use of decellularized tissue, which is animal-derived tissue with its cellular components removed, for reconstructing the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee and the rotator cuff tendon of the shoulder. The aim is for the patient's own cells to infiltrate the tissue in the body and replace it with the patient's own tissue.
*Illustrative imageCirculatory Simulator Mimicking Human Disease
To evaluate devices that treat heart valve disease, the lab develops simulators that replicate blood flow throughout the body and around the heart. It visualizes the flow to study how treatment affects blood flow.
*Illustrative imageModels for Evaluating Endovascular Treatment
The lab builds models that mimic coronary artery lesions hardened by calcium deposits, and quantitatively evaluates how well therapeutic devices work. It also develops test systems that replicate each patient's vascular geometry and heart motion.
*Illustrative imageMedical Applications of Numerical Analysis
The lab uses computational fluid dynamics to analyze blood flow in the aorta and investigate the factors behind the risk of aortic dissection and aortic aneurysm. It also uses finite element analysis to evaluate the performance and safety of therapeutic balloons.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Iwasaki Lab are faculty, researchers, assistants, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorKiyotaka Iwasaki
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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: “Artificial tricuspid heart valve” Stif Komar / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Regenerative Medicine Using Decellularized Tissue: “3D printed Hydrogel Scaffold” Habannn / CC0 (cropped)
- Circulatory Simulator Mimicking Human Disease: “Moving Water and Ink (Unsplash)” Adrien Ledoux / CC0 (cropped)
- Models for Evaluating Endovascular Treatment: “Stent1 (fcm)” Frank C. Müller / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Medical Applications of Numerical Analysis: “Meandering Mississippi ( )” USGS/NASA/Landsat 7 / Public domain (cropped)
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