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Information and Functional Medicine Lab
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A cooperating department that brings together faculty in molecular biology and genetics, higher brain function, and other fields.

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A cooperating department of the Graduate School of Medicine.
Information and Functional Medicine is a cooperating department of the Division of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University.
In the department list, the Institute for Protein Research and the United Graduate School of Child Development are listed alongside this department's name.
The listed faculty fields are molecular biology and genetics, molecular developmental biology, higher brain function, child developmental neurology, bioinformatics, and environmental and behavioral pediatrics.
Research overview materials for graduate students are prepared for each faculty member.
ResearchResearch themes
The department's page lists each faculty member's field and a guide to research overviews for graduate students. It does not describe research themes.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTaiichi Katayama
- ProfessorTakahisa Furukawa
- ProfessorTakatoshi Hikida
- ProfessorKuriko Shimono
- ProfessorRyo Kimura
- ProfessorIkuko Mohri
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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.
- Top image: “DNA Double Helix Model - Human Evolution Gallery - Indian Museum - Kolkata” Biswarup Ganguly / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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