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Hironori Haga, Professor
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The Diagnostic Pathology Lab is a diagnostic pathology lab that examines tissues and cells under a light microscope to diagnose disease. While placing importance on observing the morphology of tissue, the lab conducts research that links it with genetic tests and other examinations as well as clinical information. As the Department of Diagnostic Pathology at Kyoto University Hospital, the lab handles daily diagnosis and studies the pathology of tumors in various organs, transplant pathology, and the relationship between intracellular signaling and disease. The lab is also working on applying photoimmunotherapy to allergic diseases.
Osamu Takeuchi, Professor
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The Medical Chemistry Lab (Takeuchi Lab) studies how inflammation arises and is regulated, from the perspective of innate immunity. Immune activity is tightly controlled in the body, balancing the removal of pathogens against the risk of going too far and causing disease. The lab focuses especially on how RNA is regulated inside cells, and investigates it using genetically modified mice and other approaches. It aims to apply its findings to developing new ways to control diseases involving inflammation.
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa, Professor
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The lab analyzes the tumor microenvironment (the environment surrounding cancer) with its own original methods and comprehensively investigates the interactions between the immune system and cancer cells. The lab has established the idea that genetic abnormalities in cancer cells directly affect immune responses, opening up a new field of tumor biology. The lab approaches the mechanisms of cancer through a “from human to mouse” method: it extracts immune-related factors from comprehensive data on cancer patients and confirms their significance in mouse models. The lab is a division of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology.
Osamu Kikuchi, Associate Professor
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The Clinical Cancer Immunology and Pharmacology Lab focuses on vulnerabilities that arise from genetic alterations in cancer cells (such as KRAS and TP53), and researches and develops new molecularly targeted therapies and immunotherapies. Aiming to completely cure hard-to-treat cancers, such as unresectable gastrointestinal cancers, the lab works to develop effective and safe treatments tailored to each patient. The lab welcomes researchers and graduate students from Japan and abroad, including those who hope to study overseas in the future. The lab is a division of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology.
Riki Matsumoto, Professor
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Guided by the motto "World Class Care and Research," the lab works to "know," "protect," and "heal" the brain from the standpoint of clinical neuroscience. The lab aims to deliver the best medical care to patients with the neurological diseases that are increasing in a super-aged society, to clarify disease mechanisms using various neuroscience methods, and to develop new treatments and preventive methods. Through education at every stage, from clinical clerkships for undergraduates to postgraduate training and research supervision, the lab trains the next generation of neurologists.
Yoshiki Arakawa, Professor
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Neurosurgery is the field responsible for diagnosing and treating diseases of the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves, as well as diseases of the cerebral blood vessels. The lab is distinguished by three strengths: evidence-based clinical practice, the development of innovative treatments grounded in basic research, and the creation of new evidence through high-quality clinical trials. The lab carries out joint research with a wide range of departments inside and outside the university and brings the results back into patient care. It actively encourages study abroad in Japan and overseas, and it accepts students and physicians from both Japan and other countries.
Dai Watanabe, Professor
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The Biological Information Science Lab studies neural circuits to understand how the brain works and how the mind functions. The lab examines how neurons connect to one another, their electrical activity, and how these properties change over time (plasticity). By decoding and manipulating the signals exchanged within neurons and between them, the lab explores how information processing gives rise to brain function. The lab is recruiting graduate students and states that applicants are welcome regardless of their undergraduate field.
Mitinori Saitou, Professor
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The Functional Micromorphology Lab studies how germ cells, the precursors of sperm and eggs, are formed. The lab has developed technologies to generate, from mouse ES cells and iPS cells, primordial germ cell-like cells that can give rise to sperm and eggs and ultimately to healthy offspring. Currently, the lab is working to recreate the process of germ cell formation in the test tube using cynomolgus monkeys, which are close to humans, and human iPS cells. The lab is recruiting graduate students and states that enthusiasm is what matters, regardless of undergraduate field or prior experience.
Takashi Hiiragi, Special Invited Professor
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The Developmental Biology Lab (Hiiragi Group) uses early mammalian embryos as a model to study the mechanisms of "self-organization," in which a collection of cells spontaneously forms an ordered shape. In early mouse embryos, gene activity varies greatly from cell to cell, yet embryos of nearly the same form are produced every time. The lab tackles this question by combining biology with physics and mathematics, while developing its own microscopy and computational analysis technologies.
Akiyuki Taruno, Professor
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The Molecular and Cellular Physiology Lab studies how the human body senses changes in its internal and external environment and keeps its own state constant. Much about the senses remains unexplained, and sensory cells that have not yet been discovered are thought to exist. Using mammals as subjects, the lab aims to clarify the principles of new senses and apply them to medicine and physiology. The lab was newly established in January 2026 as a lab of the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University.
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