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Ichiro Nakagawa, Professor
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The Microbial Infectious Diseases Lab studies the mechanisms by which pathogenic bacteria cause infectious diseases. The lab examines bacterial genome information to trace how bacteria acquired pathogenicity and how they evolved, and analyzes at the molecular level how bacteria behave inside host cells. The lab's distinguishing feature is a "hybrid approach" that combines information and experiments on both the bacteria and the host, with the aim of establishing new methods of preventing and treating bacterial infections. For graduate students, the professor provides guidance so that they build a foundation as researchers through research that uses diverse methods, from bioinformatics to cell biology.
Hideki Ueno, Professor
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The Immune Cell Biology Lab (Ueno Lab) specializes in research on human immunity. It has become clear that findings from mice do not always apply directly to humans. The lab therefore uses samples from healthy people and patients to study how the human immune system works and how it is disrupted in disease. Using cutting-edge methods such as single-cell analysis, the lab aims to deepen the understanding of disease, discover biomarkers, and develop new treatments. The lab's targets are infectious diseases, vaccines, cancer immunity, autoimmune diseases, and allergies, and among organs it focuses especially on the liver.
Yoko Nishitani, Professor
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Forensic medicine involves death investigation, which determines the cause of death of deceased people, and research aimed at reducing preventable deaths. The department was established in 1899 and performs autopsies of unnatural deaths in Kyoto Prefecture, so students can learn both forensic practice and research. The lab focuses on how external factors such as poisoning, injury, and daily lifestyle habits damage organs. People who did not graduate from a medical school can also enter the master's and doctoral programs.
So Iwata, Professor
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The Molecular Cell Informatics Lab (Iwata Lab) studies the three-dimensional structures of membrane proteins that are involved in disease and are the targets of many drugs. Looked at closely, how the body functions and how diseases arise come down to the “shapes” of molecules and the interactions between them. The lab mainly determines structures by X-ray crystallography. Based on those structures, it also works on computational design of new drugs and simulations of molecular motion. The lab carries out its research in collaboration with a synchrotron facility in the UK and SACLA, Japan's X-ray free-electron laser facility, and welcomes researchers and graduate students who want to work internationally.
Yasuyuki Fujita, Professor
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The Molecular Oncology Lab studies what happens between normal epithelial cells and mutant cells at the very earliest stage of cancer. Using cultured cells and mice that it established on its own, the lab found that “cell competition,” in which normal cells and mutant cells compete for survival, takes place and that mutant cells are removed from the epithelial layer. This shows that normal epithelial tissue has the ability to eliminate mutant cells without involving the immune system, and it may lead to the development of preventive treatments for cancer.
Takashi Shinohara, Professor
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The Molecular Genetics Lab (Shinohara Lab) focuses on spermatogonial stem cells, the source of sperm, and studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which an individual passes genetic information to the next generation. Among germ cells, spermatogonial stem cells are the only ones with the ability to keep producing copies of themselves (self-renewal). The lab established a culture method that allows spermatogonial stem cells to be expanded for a long time in vitro, and named these cells GS cells. It aims to apply the knowledge gained to gene modification technology and medicine.
Takashi Hanakawa, Professor
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The Integrated Brain Imaging Lab uses noninvasive methods of measuring the brain, such as MRI, to study how information networks in the brain work and what goes wrong in them in psychiatric and neurological disorders. There is still a gap to be bridged between what can be learned by measuring the brain from the outside and existing knowledge from neuroanatomy and neuropathology. The lab aims to develop technologies that capture brain structure and function seamlessly, from the cellular level to the level of the whole brain. It is also developing neuroengineering technologies that act on brain activity, connecting knowledge toward overcoming psychiatric and neurological disorders.
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.
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