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Atsuko Deguchi, Professor
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The Deguchi Lab develops therapeutic drugs that prevent or suppress cancer metastasis. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Japan, and metastasis to distant organs is thought to be its main cause. Through basic research, the lab investigates the mechanisms of the microenvironment that forms around cancer. Based on the clues found there, it develops new forms of drugs such as small molecule compounds, multivalent peptides, and antibodies. At the same time, it also works on developing diagnostics for stratifying patients, as well as validation models that assume actual clinical settings.
Manabu Tamura, Associate Professor
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The Tamura Lab applies experience gained in neurosurgical practice to research on the evaluation of medical devices and drugs. Its work has covered functional neurosurgery, stereotactic radiotherapy, awake surgery in brain tumor operations, and the assessment of higher brain function to support patients' return to society after surgery. Drawing on experience with investigator-initiated clinical trials and with device development that combines medicine and engineering, the lab focuses on building mechanisms that allow clinical research to proceed smoothly. From a standpoint that integrates the humanities and the sciences, the lab builds the academic foundations of regulatory science and works on human resource development through collaboration among industry, government, and medicine.
Satoshi Akanuma, Professor
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The Akanuma Lab conducts research that uses enzymes and proteins to solve environmental and resource problems. It uses enzymes from familiar organisms and extremophiles as materials, and also develops artificially engineered enzymes. The other pillar is research on the origin and early evolution of life, tracing 4 billion years of evolution back from the genes of present-day organisms. The lab also investigates the Earth's environment when life emerged, and whether life could arise in space.
Shunji Ohta
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The Ohta Lab studies biosphere ecology, which examines the relationship between climate and living organisms. Based on climate data such as temperature and precipitation, the lab builds models that calculate the distribution and growth of organisms. So far, it has reproduced the water temperature of paddy fields where rice grows and the distribution of mosquitoes that carry infectious diseases. The lab estimates how food production and the risk of infectious diseases change when the climate changes.
Motoshi Hiratsuka, Professor
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The Hiratsuka Lab studies forest environmental science, which examines the relationship between forests and people. It covers both tropical forests in countries such as Laos and Myanmar, and satoyama and planted forests in Japan. The lab considers how to halt forest loss and how to make use of forest benefits in local livelihoods. Research is conducted on site through fieldwork, and lab seminar retreats also take members to forests and villages in various regions.
Jun Matsumoto, Professor
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The Matsumoto Lab studies atmospheric environmental science. Near the ground, pollutants such as nitrogen oxides react in sunlight and form ozone. Ozone is a main component of photochemical smog, and there are concerns about its effects on people and plants. Through observation, experiments, and analysis, the lab aims to understand the current state of air pollution and improve air quality.
Kazuyoshi Yamada, Professor
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The Yamada Lab is a lab seminar whose theme is aquatic environmental science. Waterside areas such as lakes, rivers, and coasts are places where the balance between people and nature, caught between development and conservation, becomes visible. By tracing the sediments that have accumulated at lake bottoms and the surrounding landforms, the lab clarifies environmental change from the past to the present. Centered on geography and earth science, the lab carries out its research in collaboration with biology, archaeology, and sociology.
Masayuki Yokozawa
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The Yokozawa Lab studies how ecosystems and farmland function, representing them with computational models. Using mathematical equations and observational data, the lab builds models of how plants grow in forests and grasslands and how biogeochemical cycles proceed. It also studies how climate change affects crop yields and the global trade in food. The lab also works on evaluating the risks of weather-related disasters, such as flooding from heavy rain, and how to prepare for them.
Kentaro Kazama, Associate Professor
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The Kazama Lab studies the ecology of wild animals, focusing on seabirds and small mammals. Its main field sites are Rishiri Island, Wakkanai, and Esashi Town in Hokkaido. From spring to summer, members stay at the field sites for more than three months to follow wild animals during the breeding season. The lab also regularly conducts surveys around the Tokorozawa Campus, where students learn the basic techniques of wildlife surveys.
Sota Yagi
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The Yagi Lab studies the structure and evolution of proteins. It recreates and tests in experiments how life came to acquire the proteins it has today. The lab works on creating three-dimensional structures from short peptides made of only a few kinds of amino acids. It also studies how properties have changed over time by reconstructing ancestral proteins.
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