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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.
Yasushi Ishihama, Professor
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The Biomolecular Measurement field (Ishihama Lab) is built around analytical science and aims to uncover the functions of cells and molecules by measuring the molecules that make up living organisms. Using mass spectrometry, trace-level separation analysis, computational science, cell biology, and other approaches, the lab develops methodologies for proteome analysis and applies them to analyzing cell function and to drug development. For each field opened up by new technology, the lab aims to follow through to its biological applications.
ROBERT Martin, Program-Specific Associate Professor
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The basic functions of life, such as cell movement, growth, response to the environment, and energy metabolism, arise from extremely complex networks of interacting biomolecules. The Systems Microbiology field takes E. coli, a bacterium that also lives in the human gut, as a model and works to understand these networks as systems. E. coli turns out to lead a more sophisticated "social life" than previously thought, and the lab is exploring what that looks like.
Akira Hirasawa, Associate Professor
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are sensor molecules that relay information into the cell. They are often involved in disease and are one of the main targets of drugs. However, for many of them, the substance they bind to (the ligand) is unknown. The Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Drug Discovery field searches for the ligands of receptors whose ligands are unknown, and it discovered a new fatty acid receptor, GPR120. The lab has shown that GPR120 promotes hormone secretion when stimulated by dietary fatty acids, and that it is related to obesity in both mice and humans. Every year, undergraduate students are assigned to the lab for their graduation research.
Hiroaki Ohno, Professor
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Most biomolecules and drugs are organic compounds, so a deep understanding of organic chemistry is essential for making drugs and using them correctly. Good drugs have already been developed for diseases that are easy to treat, leaving the diseases that are hard to treat. If compounds that are difficult to synthesize can be used in drug discovery, or if interactions between biomolecules that have been hard to regulate can be controlled, they could open the way to new drugs. The lab aims at drug discovery grounded in organic chemistry.
Masao Doi, Professor
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Disease symptoms and the effects of drugs change periodically depending on the time of day set by the body clock. It is also known that when the circadian clock's function declines because of an irregular lifestyle or aging, a variety of diseases can occur. The lab aims to establish time-based pharmaceutical science grounded in biological rhythms. Creating drugs based on the new idea of adjusting the timing of the body clock could fundamentally improve diseases caused by circadian clock abnormalities.
Hideaki Kakeya, Professor
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The "life, death, and differentiation" of cells is tightly controlled by factors that determine proliferation, differentiation, and cell death. Disruption of this regulation is thought to lead to diseases such as cancer, infectious diseases, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, immune disorders, and diabetes. Centered on natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry, the lab pioneers new bioactive small molecules and uses them to carry out chemical biology research that uncovers how the "life, death, and differentiation" of cells is regulated. Several new bioactive molecules based on the lab's research results are already sold commercially as biochemical reagents.
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