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Drug Discovery Neuroscience Lab
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A joint research chair that aims to develop treatments for intractable neurological diseases.
AboutAbout the lab
Linking drug discovery for neurological diseases from basic research to the clinic.
The Drug Discovery Neuroscience Joint Research Chair is a chair in which researchers from the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine and Tanabe Pharma work together on research to develop treatments for intractable neurological diseases.
The lab analyzes the pathology of various neurological diseases, searches for drug targets based on the results, and evaluates the efficacy of new drug candidates using disease model animals.
It also searches for biomarkers that make it possible to evaluate the effects of new drug candidates accurately and quickly in clinical trials.
Making use of Osaka University's state-of-the-art imaging analysis facilities and more, the lab aims to create new value and achieve innovative drug discovery.
Key terms
- Joint research chair
- A chair in which a university and a company conduct research together. Here, researchers from Osaka University and Tanabe Pharma collaborate
- Translational research
- Research that links the results of basic research to treatment in the clinic.
- Biomarker
- An indicator within the body used to predict how a disease will progress and how effective a treatment will be.
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The causes of many neurological diseases are still unidentified, and the development of curative treatments is awaited in this disease area. The Drug Discovery Neuroscience Joint Research Chair works on translational research toward developing treatments for intractable neurological diseases, the search for biomarkers that predict disease progression and treatment effects, and the search for new drug target molecules.
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MembersFaculty
Members of the Drug Discovery Neuroscience Joint Research Chair consist of the supervising professor, Project Professors, Project Assistant Professors, and joint researchers from Tanabe Pharma.As of 2026
- Supervising ProfessorToshihide Yamashita
- Specially Appointed Professor, Principal InvestigatorTakahide Itokazu
- Project Assistant ProfessorTeruyuki Ishikura
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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: “Drug discovery cycle 2” Boghog / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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