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Host Defense Medicine Lab
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A cooperating department covering fields such as immunology and virology.

AboutAbout the lab
A cooperating department covering fields such as immunology and virology.
Host Defense Medicine is a cooperating department of the Division of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University.
In the department list, names such as the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases and the Immunology Frontier Research Center are listed alongside it.
Faculty are listed by field, including innate immunity, molecular virology, pathogenic bacteriology, and parasitology.
For many fields, research overviews for graduate students are publicly available.
Key terms
- Cooperating department
- One of the categories of departments in the Graduate School of Medicine. In the department list, it appears alongside core departments, special cooperating departments, and others
ResearchResearch themes
This department lists many fields, including innate immunity, immunochemistry, molecular virology, pathogenic bacteriology, parasitology, and genome informatics. For many fields, research content is published as PDFs of research overviews for graduate students.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
- Project ProfessorShizuo Akira
- ProfessorHisashi Arase
- ProfessorTokiko Watanabe
- ProfessorNobuyuki Takakura
- ProfessorMasahito Ikawa
- ProfessorMasahiro Yamamoto
- ProfessorEiji Hara
- ProfessorTetsuya Iida
- ProfessorStandley Daron Michaelangelo
- ProfessorSho Yamasaki
- ProfessorTsuyoshi Kobayashi
- Project Associate ProfessorMasaharu Iwasaki
- ProfessorFutoshi Ishitani
- ProfessorShiro Iwanaga
- Associate ProfessorShota Nakamura
- ProfessorAi Kotani
- Project Associate ProfessorKentaro Tsukamoto
- ProfessorYoichiro Nakatani
- Associate ProfessorShotaro Yamasaki
- ProfessorKenji Kamimoto
- Project Associate ProfessorDaisuke Okuzaki
- ProfessorYumi Matsuoka
- Associate Professor, Endowed Research DivisionKang Sujin
- Project ProfessorNobuhiko Kamada
- ProfessorWING James Badger
- Project ProfessorYoshiharu Matsuura
- ProfessorWataru Ise
- ProfessorKeiji Itaka
- Project Associate ProfessorAtsushi Taguchi
- Project Associate ProfessorShoichi Tateyama
- Project Associate ProfessorShiho Torii
- Project Associate ProfessorHideto Mori
- Project ProfessorImad Abugessaisa
- ProfessorTakahiro Nemoto
- Project ProfessorShimon Sakaguchi
- ProfessorKosuke Fujimoto
- ProfessorJunpei Ito
- ProfessorToshio Kodama
- Project Associate ProfessorRyuichiro Abe
- Associate ProfessorNorifumi Iijima
- Associate ProfessorCHEN KELVIN YIGENE
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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: “Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (green)” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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