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Eriko Kage-Kage-Nakadai, Professor
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The Division of Aging and Infection Control uses the nematode C. elegans and mice as model organisms to study the mechanisms of aging and infection and ways to control them. Inflammation is increasingly recognized as deeply linked not only to infection but also to a variety of chronic diseases, and the lab is also looking at the possibility of suppressing inflammation with gut bacteria.
Tatsushi Igaki, Professor
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Much has been learned about how individual cells behave, but how cells communicate with one another to produce the functions of a cell population is still largely unknown. The Multicellular Systems division (Igaki Lab) focuses on competition and cooperation between cells. It aims to uncover the principles of cell-cell communication that underlie organ development and tissue maintenance, as well as the mechanisms of cancer and aging that arise when this communication breaks down. The lab uses Drosophila fruit flies, which are well suited to genetics and imaging, as its model organism, and applies the principles it discovers to mammalian cells and mice through collaborations.
Miki Imanishi, Professor
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The human body is built on the elaborate interactions of many kinds of biomolecules. The Biofunctional Chemistry division aims to understand biomolecular interactions from a chemical perspective, create proteins that control cell functions and genes, and establish new ways of thinking about treatment. The lab uses methods from molecular biology, cell biology, and peptide and protein chemistry.
Fumiyoshi Yamashita, Professor
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Drugs are given to real patients who differ greatly in genetic background, living environment, and health condition. As a result, even drugs whose efficacy and safety have been confirmed in clinical trials may have limited effects, or may cause side effects from drug-drug or drug-food interactions, or unexpected side effects. The Mathematical Therapeutics division aims to identify the causes of these risks and to establish methods for assessing risk in drug development, formulation technologies that avoid risk, and methods for designing and monitoring dosing in clinical practice.
Daiki Hira, Associate Professor
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Precision medicine, which prevents and treats disease by taking into account individual differences in genetic information, living environment, and lifestyle, is attracting growing attention. The Clinical Pharmacy Education lab conducts two kinds of research: building a scientific foundation for solving problems found in actual drug therapy, and developing new drug therapies from the results of basic research. Its aim is to develop personalized treatment that is optimal for each patient. The lab conducts research together with the Department of Pharmacy at Kyoto University Hospital (Medical Pharmaceutics field).
Hiroyuki Kimura, Professor
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The Disease Molecular Control field is a cooperating division of the Department of Pharmacy in the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, staffed by faculty of the Radiation Control Division of the Environment, Safety and Health Organization. The faculty's research fields span pharmaceutical chemistry and drug discovery science, radiation science and diagnostic imaging, and pharmaceutical analytical chemistry.
Takashi Temma, Professor
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The Life Quantum Analysis lab conducts research that contributes to the advancement of cancer treatment from the perspectives of pharmaceutical sciences and life sciences, centered on the neutron capture therapy performed at the Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University. In June 2025, the lab became a cooperating division of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Department of Pharmacy), and it will begin accepting graduate students (master's and doctoral) from the 2027 academic year admissions.
Masahiro Ono, Professor
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Living organisms function through the interactions of many molecules, so understanding their functions requires analysis at the molecular level. The Pathophysiological Function Analysis Lab uses photon-based technologies to develop molecular imaging methods that visualize, in real time and from outside the body, the molecular interactions taking place inside a living body. Building on this, the lab clarifies biological functions and the causes of disease, and develops diagnostic and therapeutic drugs based on the characteristics of disease states.
Yuriko Higuchi, Professor
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The drugs administered for treatment come in many forms (modalities), including small-molecule compounds, proteins, nucleic acids and genes, and cells. To be effective in the body, a drug must reach the right place at the right time in the right amount, and the mechanism that controls this precisely is called a drug delivery system (DDS). The Pharmaceutical Design Lab focuses on biopharmaceuticals and aims to establish new DDS strategies, along with methods to evaluate how these drugs behave inside the body.
Asuka Inoe, Professor
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GPCRs are receptors in the cell membrane that act as sensors for hormones and many other substances. About 30% of currently approved drugs target GPCRs, making them important targets for drug discovery. The Signaling Pharmacology Lab (the Inoe Lab) aims to understand in detail how GPCR signals are transmitted inside cells, by developing new methods to detect the activation of signaling molecules and by generating cells that lack those signaling molecules. The ultimate goals are to identify new drug targets and to create better therapeutic drugs.
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