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Yukiko Mori, Professor
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The lab is a division of the Medical DX Education and Research Center, affiliated with the Graduate School of Medicine, and its mission is "building a role model for a medical data utilization infrastructure in Japan." Beyond providing facilities, the lab expands horizontal connections among people across the university, aiming to create a place where high-quality research on par with the world's best can emerge. Its work rests on three pillars: advanced use of external data and support for industry-academia collaboration; open science and research data management; and operating an infrastructure for uses that benefit the health and interests of the public. The lab promotes interdisciplinary research that goes beyond medicine, and trains medical information professionals with strong foundational skills, applied skills, and communication skills.
Akifumi Takaori, Professor
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Hematology is a field in which clinical and basic research are closely linked, and the lab applies the results of basic research to elucidating disease mechanisms, diagnosis, and the development of treatments. Under the motto "From bedside to bench. From bench to bedside." the lab devotes itself to clinical care, research, and education, aiming to cure intractable blood diseases. With cures for blood cancers and infectious diseases as its main themes, the lab conducts research from both clinical and basic angles. Some of its labs work on leukemia, tumor immunology, transplant immunology, HIV, and iPS cells. The lab welcomes not only those who aim to become researchers but also those who aim to become clinicians and want to deepen their knowledge through basic research.
Koh Ono, Professor
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Cardiovascular medicine deals with diseases such as angina, myocardial infarction, valvular heart disease, heart failure, atherosclerosis, aneurysms, and arrhythmias. In its research, the lab draws on basic and clinical approaches in balance, aiming to create new value from Kyoto for the world. In basic research, the lab uses new methods that apply molecular biology, physiology, and genetics to answer questions that arise in clinical practice. In clinical research, it carries out large-scale multicenter trials in cooperation with many affiliated hospitals. The lab also welcomes early-career researchers and people from other fields.
Hiroshi Seno, Professor
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Gastroenterology research at the lab covers a wide range of digestive diseases, from the esophagus, stomach, and intestines to the liver, bile ducts, and pancreas. The lab's starting points are questions that arise in clinical practice, such as why diseases occur, and why their progression and response to treatment differ from person to person. The lab seeks to understand how a disease begins and how it changes over time, at many levels from molecules, cells, and tissues to groups of patients. The lab aims to train "bilingual" professionals who are clinicians and also understand basic medical science.
Toyohiro Hirai, Professor
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The lab studies a wide range of respiratory diseases, including cancer, infections, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma, interstitial lung disease, sleep-disordered breathing, and respiratory failure. The lung is an organ that performs gas exchange at the interface of air and blood and keeps changing shape with each breath, and its diseases can overlap with one another or be linked to diseases of other organs. The lab aims to bring together knowledge from many fields, not only medicine and biology but also science and engineering, to build a new framework of respiratory medicine. The lab also conducts clinical research using clinical information from many institutions, including affiliated facilities, and collaborative research with basic medicine departments and other faculties.
Akio Morinobu, Professor
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Clinical Immunology is a department that treats immune diseases such as rheumatic and connective tissue diseases, and a field that serves as a bridge between basic immunology and clinical medicine. Patients with rheumatic and connective tissue diseases are treated using cutting-edge immunological therapies. At the same time, the mechanisms of autoimmunity are still not fully understood, and many new challenges remain, such as autoimmune diseases that appear as a side effect of cancer immunotherapy. The lab aims to resolve the challenges of clinical immunology using methods from immunology, life sciences, and information science, and to bring the results back to clinical practice.
Daisuke Yabe, Professor
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The Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition carries out consistent research on diabetes, endocrine diseases, and nutritional and metabolic diseases, from elucidating disease mechanisms to creating new medical care. Combining basic research, clinical research, and data science, the lab conducts translational research, including regenerative medicine using iPS cells, omics analysis, and analysis of real-world data. The lab also carries out cross-disciplinary research on Person-Centered Care, health policy, and medical education, contributing to improving the quality of healthcare. Graduate students are encouraged to think and run experiments on their own, and staff teach the necessary techniques.
Shigeru Ohtsuru, Professor
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Primary Care and Emergency Medicine is a new department established in 2006. Kyoto University Hospital is designated as a base hospital for disasters and nuclear disasters, and in 2024 it was designated an Emergency and Critical Care Center. As a pillar of advanced acute care, staff with a variety of specialties work together as a single team. The lab explores how emergency care is changing with the times, including a super-aged society, frequent disasters, and outbreaks of new infectious diseases, and trains the next generation of leaders in emergency and disaster medicine.
Motoko Yanagita, Professor
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With the mission of making kidney disease a curable disease and pioneering a new field of nephrology, the lab integrates clinical care, research, and education. Advances in treatment, a deeper understanding of disease mechanisms, and the progress of personalized medicine are shifting kidney care from medicine that slows progression to medicine that predicts, selects, and intervenes. Starting from clinical questions, the lab brings together understanding at the molecular, cellular, individual, and population levels, and conducts research that connects elucidating disease mechanisms to developing treatments and implementing them in society. The lab aims to train physician scientists who can work on the international stage.
Manabu Muto, Professor
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Medical Oncology was established in 2012 as a core department of the Cancer Center at Kyoto University Hospital. The lab works on advanced cancer drug therapy including cancer genomic medicine; clinical development such as trials for drug approval and other clinical studies; basic cancer research; translational research that applies basic findings to the clinic; and programs using biospecimens and real-world data. From elucidating how cancer arises to developing new diagnostics and treatments, applying cancer genomic medicine in the clinic, and palliative care, the lab studies cancer from every angle.
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