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Nano Medical Engineering Lab
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A lab that develops regenerative medicine and cancer treatment technologies using tiny magnetic particles.
AboutAbout the lab
Nanomagnets building new medicine
The Ito Lab studies medical technologies that use magnetic nanoparticles (nanomedicine).
The lab coats iron oxide nanoparticles, which are harmless to the body, with various biomaterials to create magnetic nanoparticles with functions suited to specific purposes.
Taking advantage of the fact that these particles can be gathered and transported with magnets, the lab develops regenerative medicine technologies, and, using their property of generating heat in an alternating magnetic field, develops cancer hyperthermia therapy.
Key terms
- Magnetic nanoparticles
- Very small particles, with a diameter of tens of nanometers or less, that are attracted to magnets.
- Biomaterials
- Materials for medical and biological use that are made to cause little harm when used inside the body.
- Cancer hyperthermia
- A treatment that heats the area where cancer is located to weaken or kill cancer cells.
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Masahiro Kaneko wins the 5th Young Investigator Award in Biotechnology from the Society for Biotechnology, Japan
Review article on magnetic hyperthermia wins the Excellent Paper Award from the Japanese Society for Thermal Medicine
Master's student wins Excellent Presentation Award at the Department of Chemical System Engineering master's thesis presentation
Master's student wins the Bio Division Excellent Poster Award at the 56th Autumn Meeting of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
Paper on improving the function of three-dimensional muscle tissue wins the 33rd Biotechnology Paper Award
ResearchResearch themes
Taking advantage of the magnetic properties of magnetic nanoparticles, various medical applications have been developed. The lab develops technologies that apply these tiny iron particles to regenerative medicine and cancer treatment.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping functional magnetic nanoparticles
The material used is magnetite, a chemically stable black iron oxide. By coating magnetite with a diameter of 10 nm with various biomaterials, the lab develops magnetic nanoparticles with functions suited to specific purposes.
*Illustrative imageRegenerative medicine processes using magnetic force
Attaching magnetic nanoparticles to cells makes it possible to manipulate the cells with magnetic force. Target cells can be separated with a magnet, or cells can be arranged with magnets to form patterns. The lab develops processes that stack separately cultured cells using magnetic force to build three-dimensional tissues for transplantation.
*Illustrative imageCancer hyperthermia using magnetic nanoparticles
Magnetic nanoparticles generate heat in an alternating magnetic field and are also visible on MRI. The lab is researching, with practical use in mind, a method in which magnetic nanoparticles that bind to cancer cells are gathered in a tumor, MRI is used to locate the cancer, and an alternating magnetic field is applied from outside the body to heat only the tumor for treatment.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ito Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkira Ito
- Assistant ProfessorMasahiro Kaneko
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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: “Magnetické chování ferrokapalin” ZuzanaBrabcova / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing functional magnetic nanoparticles: “Transmission Electron Microscope Kemira” kallerna / Public domain (cropped)
- Regenerative medicine processes using magnetic force: “Cell Culture in a tiny Petri dish (cropped)” kaibara87 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Cancer hyperthermia using magnetic nanoparticles: “MRI-Philips” Jan Ainali / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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