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Takuya Chiba, Professor
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The Chiba Lab studies how aging works and develops ways to prevent it. This field, which approaches aging with the methods of molecular biology and experimental pathology, is also known as biogerontology. Aging is one of the major risk factors for cancer, lifestyle-related diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. The lab therefore aims to lead to the development of drugs, Kampo and herbal medicines, and functional foods that slow aging.
Taichi Hara, Professor
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The Hara Lab uses the methods of food science and life science to tackle the health problems of a rapidly aging, low-birthrate society. The lab searches for functional ingredients in foods and natural products and clarifies how they act on the body. It aims to restore the "mibyo" stage, in which a person is not ill but not well, through the power of diet before relying on medication. The goal is to apply these results to disease prevention and to improving quality of life (QOL).
Satoshi Yano, Lecturer
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The Yano Lab studies, at the molecular level, how components contained in food act on the body. Its specialties are food molecular function and nutrigenetics, and it conducts its research as a member of the Food and Life Science lab seminar (Hara Lab) in the School of Human Sciences. The lab pays particular attention to autophagy, the process by which cells break down their own components and rebuild them. It investigates how processing such as fermentation changes this activity, aiming to lead to extended healthy life expectancy.
Issei Kato, Assistant Professor
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The Kato Lab studies how people feel heat and cold and how they regulate their body temperature. Its specialties are environmental physiology and neuroscience. In environments where temperature and humidity are varied, the lab measures both the body's responses and how those conditions are perceived. The lab has investigated how the nose and fingertips sense moisture, and how the brain works in relation to the sensation of temperature. It also conducts research that contributes to heatstroke prevention, such as evaluating a technology that measures core body temperature with a sensor attached to the skin.
Jingyun Wang, Assistant Professor
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The Wang Lab studies the link between metabolism and health in the body, using autophagy as a starting point. Its specialty is applied health science. The lab applies genome editing to cultured cells and examines the function of genes one at a time. The lab investigates how proteins involved in insulin signaling affect the process by which fat cells form and energy metabolism. It aims to find leads for controlling metabolic abnormalities, including obesity.
Mamoru Iwabuchi, Professor
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The Iwabuchi Lab studies technology that helps people facing a wide range of difficulties, such as people with disabilities and older adults. It aims to expand the use of such technology and, through it, to realize a society that embraces diversity. The lab works on advancing information network technologies that connect people with people and people with things, and on supporting communication. In development, it builds on mainstream technologies such as smartphones, tablets, and the cloud, and proposes ways to promote adoption that keep cost and time low.
Atsushi Ogihara, Professor
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The Ogihara Lab studies the social systems that support the health of all people. Its specialties are social medicine and health informatics, and it aims to identify and propose models of well-being communities and societies. The lab values dialogue and fieldwork, and conducts research in collaboration among industry, government, academia, and citizens. It uses a wide range of methods, including document and literature review, interviews, surveys, epidemiology, multivariate analysis, and mixed methods research.
Masaki Kakeyama, Professor
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The Kakeyama Lab studies the mechanisms by which the brain and mind develop healthily and are maintained. It uses methods for analyzing animal behavior in detail and techniques for measuring and manipulating neural activity, and it also conducts studies involving human participants. The lab has investigated how the effects of chemicals experienced in the womb later appear in learning and sociality after the animals have grown up. The findings are provided as scientific knowledge toward elucidating the mechanisms of psychiatric and neurological diseases and developing drugs and food products.
Momoko Sasazuki, Professor
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The Sasazuki Lab studies medicine and care for children with serious illnesses or disabilities and their families. Its specialties are palliative medicine, clinical thanatology, and bioethics, and it considers questions concerning life from the perspective of human sciences. The lab has investigated discussions about children's treatment plans and the experiences families have accumulated, grounded in pediatric clinical practice. It aims to connect these findings to support for decision-making and to learning for people involved in medicine and nursing.
Takuya Tsujiuchi, Professor
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The Tsujiuchi Lab studies the relationship between recovery from disasters and people's health from the standpoint of medical anthropology. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear accident, the lab has carried out large-scale surveys and interviews with people living as evacuees. Drawing also on methods from psychosomatic medicine and public health, the lab examines how stress, trauma, and social connections affect health. Professor Tsujiuchi serves as director of the Waseda University Institute for Disaster Recovery and Medical Anthropology, which aims to share its findings in Japan and abroad.
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