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Naoki Kondo, Professor
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Social epidemiology studies how social circumstances such as education, income, occupation, and social connections, as well as the social environment, including policy, culture, the economy, and income inequality, affect people's health. The lab clarifies these "social determinants of health" and conducts research and development to reduce the health disparities that arise from them. Working closely with sociology, economics, behavioral science, policy science, cultural anthropology, and other fields, the lab promotes the creation of a society where everyone can become healthy naturally, aiming to achieve well-being for all people. The lab hosts the Social Impact Evaluation endowed course, established in 2024.
Manabu Hasegawa, Professor
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The lab conducts research and develops training programs to strengthen the "crisis response capacity" required in government, healthcare, long-term care, and other settings during health crises such as disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. At the scene of a health crisis, quick decisions and actions are required even when resources, information, and time are lacking. Learning from the experience and knowledge of those who came before, the lab organizes the "practical knowledge" that people on the front lines need into usable forms, building an academic foundation for preparing for the next crisis.
Tatsuhiko Kubo, Professor
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In health crisis management, where many organizations act at the same time, the lab takes on the challenge of strategically building systems for coordination among stakeholders in advance, during ordinary times. By establishing information cycles that connect diverse fields and stakeholders, the lab aims to achieve collaboration across multiple fields. The lab welcomes people who have the drive to improve rather than simply ability, and practical experience rather than simply academic credentials, and trains people who can be effective at the scene of a health crisis.
Akira Sawa, Visiting Professor
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The lab studies psychiatric disorders with adult onset, such as schizophrenia and mood disorders, from an international perspective, sharing a research structure with the psychiatry division at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Psychiatry, which deals with mental illness, sits at the intersection of brain science as a natural science and social science, which includes the study of culture. Combining perspectives from neuroscience and global health epidemiology, and collaborating with various groups in Japan and abroad, the lab studies psychiatric disorders from multiple angles, from basic research to clinical practice.
Makoto Hayashi, Visiting Associate Professor
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The IFOM-KU International Joint Lab was jointly established by Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and the IFOM Institute of Molecular Oncology in Italy, and its research is conducted on the Graduate School of Medicine campus. Focusing on the function of telomeres at the ends of chromosomes, the lab uses methods such as genome editing and imaging to understand how chromosomal abnormalities lead to the malignant transformation of cells and to increased malignancy in cancer cells. Master's and doctoral students each work on independent research topics, international students are part of the lab, and seminars are held mainly in English.
Ryoichiro Kageyama, Visiting Professor
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The RIKEN Neural Stem Cell Research Lab studies mammalian development at the level of transcription factors, with a focus on the development of the nervous system. The lab takes on the question of how, as a single fertilized egg becomes a complex organism, cells recognize their position and role and carry out specific events at specific times. The lab is a collaborative program with the RIKEN Neural Stem Cell Research Team, and it is located at RIKEN in Kobe.
Tomoyuki Mizuno, Visiting Professor
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The Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology Lab conducts research in pharmacometrics, which uses mathematical models and simulation to quantitatively analyze and predict drug responses (movement in the body, effects, and side effects), and in systems pharmacology, which views the body and disease as a single system to elucidate the interactions among drugs, the body, and disease. The lab aims to predict disease progression and the effects and side effects of drugs at both the population and individual levels, and to apply these predictions to optimal drug therapy in practice and to drug development. The lab conducts research and education in collaboration with its other research base, a lab at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in the United States.
Susumu Sato, Program-Specific Associate Professor
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The lab aims to keep blood gases, which are vital for life, at optimal levels around the clock, whether a person is awake or asleep. With hypoxia as a keyword, the lab studies a broad range of conditions: from acute respiratory failure that is hard to treat, to chronic respiratory failure, to sleep-disordered breathing such as sleep apnea, which is closely linked to neurological and cardiovascular diseases. The lab analyzes difficult cases of respiratory failure from the perspectives of both respiratory diseases and other diseases, and also aims to develop new methods of evaluation and treatment.
Masao Tanaka, Program-Specific Associate Professor
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The lab is an endowed department established to advance clinical care, research, and education for rheumatic diseases, centered on rheumatoid arthritis, that cause joint pain and inflammation. It is part of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Rheumatology specialists from internal medicine and orthopedic surgery work together to build a patient cohort and a sample bank, and conduct both clinical and basic research. The lab runs outpatient clinics at the Rheumatology Center of Kyoto University Hospital. Alongside providing cutting-edge care, it works to educate medical staff and patients and to provide them with information.
Hideyuki Kinoshita, Program-Specific Associate Professor
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The lab is an endowed department involving groups from cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, otolaryngology and head and neck surgery, psychiatry, dermatology, and clinical epidemiology. Clinical departments of Kyoto University Hospital regularly create opportunities to bring the latest medical knowledge to doctors at public hospitals in regions with few or no specialists, with the aim of helping to train specialists locally. By working with the rich variety of cases in these regions, the university's specialists also aim to maintain and improve not only their own specialty but also their general diagnostic skills.
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