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Biochemical Engineering Lab
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The lab studies industrial applications of animal cells and microorganisms through biochemical engineering.
AboutAbout the lab
Biochemical Engineering × Animal Cells
The Biochemical Engineering Lab studies industrial applications of biological reactions, building on biochemical engineering, which applies the methods and ways of thinking of chemical engineering to living organisms.
Its subjects are manufacturing with animal cells, including biopharmaceuticals such as antibody therapeutics, regenerative medicine products, vaccines, vectors for gene therapy, and stem cells, as well as manufacturing with microorganisms.
The lab studies cell engineering, which handles animal cells and microbial cells, and the bioprocesses involved.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name 'Omasa Lab'.
Key terms
- Antibody therapeutics
- A representative type of protein therapeutic. Most require production technologies using animal cells
- Post-translational modification
- Modifications added to a protein after it is made. They are often necessary for protein therapeutics to function in the body
- CHO cells
- Cells derived from Chinese hamster ovary. They can be propagated continuously in vitro and are widely used to produce antibody therapeutics
- Bioprocess
- The series of steps in manufacturing with living organisms, such as cell line construction, culture, and purification
NewsLab news
An Associate Professor of the Biochemical Engineering Lab received the Bioindustry Encouragement Award
A student received the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at JAACT2023 Nagoya
ResearchResearch themes
From the perspective of industrial biochemical engineering, the lab studies how to apply biological reactions industrially. Focusing on manufacturing with animal cells, such as biopharmaceuticals, regenerative medicine products, vaccines, and stem cells, as well as manufacturing with microorganisms, it works on cell engineering and bioprocesses.
*Illustrative imageCells and Culture for Producing Protein Therapeutics
Many protein therapeutics require post-translational modification, so production technologies using animal cells are needed. Analyzing and making use of each step, from cell line construction through culture to purification, and the relationships among the steps is required as foundational technology.
*Illustrative imageUnderstanding CHO Cells and Integrated Bioprocesses
The lab regards CHO cells, derived from Chinese hamster ovary, as industrial animal cells and takes their scientific elucidation as its starting point. It combines development aimed at clarifying intracellular secretory processes and improving productivity with bioprocess development based on cell stability.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Biochemical Engineering Lab consist of faculty members, visiting professors and visiting researchers, students in the doctoral program, master's program, and undergraduate program, secretaries, and technical assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakeshi Omasa
- Associate ProfessorNoriko Yamano
- Assistant ProfessorSochi J. Ogbonna
- Project Assistant ProfessorTakayo Kanai
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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: “Wine fermentation tanks in a winery in Tarija” Aldrihe / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cells and Culture for Producing Protein Therapeutics: “Rotary Cell Culture System” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Understanding CHO Cells and Integrated Bioprocesses: “Bioreactor 1” Luis Fernando Flores LAB / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Nano Surface and Interface Engineering Lab): “Scanning tunneling microscope-MHS 2237-IMG 3817-white” Rama / CC BY-SA 3.0 fr (cropped)
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