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Forensic Medicine Lab
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A lab that centers on cause-of-death investigation to explore ways to prevent unfortunate deaths.
AboutAbout the lab
Research on cause-of-death investigation to prevent unfortunate deaths
The lab works in forensic medicine, the only field of medicine that deals with the death of an individual, and centers its research on cause-of-death investigation, starting from the question of why people die.
The lab clarifies the mechanisms of sudden deaths that never reach clinical care, deaths caused by the environment such as heatstroke and freezing, and alcohol-related deaths, and studies how to prevent and treat them.
Autopsy is not the only way to investigate a cause of death.
The lab also uses biochemical tests during autopsy, analysis of drugs and poisons with mass spectrometry instruments, and whole-exome sequencing with next-generation sequencers.
Medical students can choose this lab through the Year 3 basic lab placement or the Year 5 lab placement.
Key terms
- Cause-of-death investigation
- Combining autopsy and various tests to examine and clarify the cause of death and its mechanism
- Whole-exome sequencing
- A test that examines, all at once, the parts of the genes that serve as blueprints for proteins
- Basic lab placement
- A course in which Year 3 medical students join a lab and work on research for a short period
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on cause-of-death investigation and starting from the question of why people die, the lab studies how to prevent unfortunate deaths, including deaths from external causes such as homicide. Its main research falls into two types: “WET experimental research,” which investigates the mechanisms of death through experiments, and “DRY survey research,” which investigates actual conditions and systems.
*Illustrative imageExploring the mechanisms of death through experiments
The lab uses experiments to study the mechanisms of environment-related deaths such as heatstroke and freezing, alcohol and deaths from infection among drinkers, sex differences in the prognosis of cerebral infarction, and the genomes of sudden death.
*Illustrative imagePreventing death through real-world data and systems
The lab analyzes the actual circumstances of external-cause deaths in children, suicide, heatstroke deaths, and deaths caused by others, and considers preventive measures. It also studies legal systems for death investigation and legal frameworks for postmortem research.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Forensic Medicine Lab consist of faculty in charge of forensic practice and graduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroshi Matsumoto
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