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Yasunori Hayashi, Professor
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The Systems Neuropharmacology Lab (Hayashi Lab) studies how memories are maintained in the brain. It focuses in particular on the hippocampus, a brain region necessary for forming new memories. In the hippocampus, long-term potentiation (LTP), in which synaptic transmission is strengthened for a long time by a brief stimulus, occurs, and this is considered a cellular-level model of memory. By combining molecular biology, electrophysiology, animal behavior experiments, and imaging, the lab seeks to uncover the molecular mechanisms of LTP.
Kazuto Yoshimi, Professor
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The Laboratory Animal Science Lab (Yoshimi Lab) is built around the question of how far human biological phenomena can be reproduced in animals, and conducts research using animal models that mimic humans. Building on genome editing technologies such as CRISPR-Cas, the lab develops "genome-humanized models," in which regions of human genes are inserted into the animal genome, as well as technologies for rewriting large regions of the genome. It is a new lab established in April 2026 at the Institute of Laboratory Animals, Graduate School of Medicine. The lab accepts students from the Department of Medicine and the Department of Medical Science in the Graduate School, and welcomes lab visits and inquiries at any time.
Hirohide Takebayashi, Professor
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The Brain Functional Morphology Lab studies the development, plasticity, and age-related changes of the nervous system, with a focus on glial cells. The lab also aims to clarify the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and of diseases that cause involuntary movements, in which parts of the body move regardless of one's will, and to develop new treatments for them. The lab is in charge of teaching systematic human anatomy in the School of Medicine and also supports clinical anatomy work at the Kyoto University Clinical Anatomy Laboratory. It is a new field that began in April 2024 when Prof. Takebayashi took up his post, and it is the only lab within the Center for Anatomical Studies.
Takahisa Kawaguchi, Assistant Professor
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The Disease Genome Epidemiology and Genome Informatics Lab uses genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic analysis technologies to study diseases involving many factors at multiple levels. The lab builds databases linked to patients' clinical information, aiming for prediction, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention tailored to each individual. It is carrying out the Nagahama Project, Japan's first large-scale genome cohort study of community residents. The lab is a division of the Center for Genomic Medicine, which is affiliated with the Graduate School of Medicine, and it is also involved in an international joint doctoral program with McGill University in Canada and in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur.
Hitomi Kataoka, Professor
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The Medical Education Lab investigates how healthcare professionals, including medical students and their instructors, deepen their learning and by what methods. Learning is shaped not only by what is inside the learner but also by their relationships with others and the environment they learn in, so everyday life at the university and in clinical settings is itself the subject of research. The lab puts particular emphasis on learner-centered learning, learning within patient-centered care, and diversity and inclusion.
THUMKEO Dean, Professor
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The Immunopharmacology Lab aims to uncover how immune cells work and to apply that knowledge to new therapies. Its immediate goal is to treat cancer by using the immune system. Beyond that, the lab hopes to manipulate immune cells to achieve tissue regeneration and to treat neurodegenerative diseases of the brain. The lab seamlessly combines wet experiments with large-scale data analysis (dry), and its members come from a wide range of backgrounds. The lab puts effort into creating an international research environment.
FAGARASAN Sidonia, Professor
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The lab studies how immune function coordinates with the body's other systems. Through research on mucosal immunity in the gut, the lab has clarified the regulation of symbiotic bacteria and the mucosal barrier, as well as the role gut immunity plays in maintaining homeostasis. More recently, the lab has also found that long-lasting immune responses throughout the body can affect brain function and cause changes in emotion. Using cutting-edge multiomics technologies, the lab aims to develop new therapies for immune-related diseases.
Kenji Chamoto, Professor
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The lab aims to comprehensively understand, at the molecular, cellular, and metabolic levels, how the immune response against cancer is regulated, and to create the next generation of cancer immunotherapy. Immune checkpoint blockade therapy does not work sufficiently in more than half of patients, and clarifying why it fails to work, or stops working partway through treatment, is a major challenge. Focusing on the metabolism of immune cells, especially mitochondrial function, the lab explores the mechanisms of immune regulation across cancer, aging, and inflammation. As a division of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology, the lab moves back and forth between basic and clinical research.
Hirotake Tsukamoto, Program-Specific Associate Professor
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The lab studies why cancer immunotherapy does not work in some patients, and the mechanisms behind reactions in which treatment causes the body to attack itself. In cancer immunotherapy such as anti-PD-(L)1 therapy, immune-related adverse events (irAEs) can damage organs, and treatment sometimes has to be discontinued. The lab explores ways to resolve a contradictory challenge: suppressing side effects too much reduces efficacy, while strengthening efficacy increases the risk of attacking one's own body. The lab is a division of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology and collaborates with the clinical departments of Kyoto University Hospital.
Ken Takahashi, Associate Professor
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The lab uses the power of innate immunity to pursue the clinical development of a new cancer immunotherapy that enhances the effect of PD-1 blockade therapy. Drawing on experience in treating digestive diseases and in research on immunity against cancer and viruses centered on innate immunity, the lab aims to bring the results of basic research back to actual clinical care. The lab is a division of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology, established in April 2023.
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