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Gojiro Nakagami, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare2 student voices
The Gerontological Nursing / Wound Care Management lab is pioneering a new academic field called "nursing science and engineering," which integrates nursing science with bioscience, engineering, and data science. The lab's goal is to realize a life of care and recovery in which patients are not made to endure suffering. In particular, it works to establish new care techniques for people receiving care who cannot communicate their own pain or distress. Established in 2004, the lab has been led by Professor Gojiro Nakagami since April 2022.
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare1 student voices
The Palliative Care Nursing lab conducts broad research on long-term nursing care for older adults and their families. Starting with the development of indicators, the lab considers how to measure and improve the quality of care in home settings and long-term care facilities. The lab treats the well-being of the nurses and care workers who provide care as inseparable from improving its quality. The lab also carries out case study research that examines individual cases one by one, building up new knowledge of care.
Takahiro Higashi, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare1 student voices
The Public Health and Health Policy Lab focuses on empirical analysis related to health care policy, health policy, and health management. In addition to disease prevention and early detection, the lab covers what is known as health services research, including access to care, systems for delivering care, and quality of care. The lab always keeps its contribution to society in mind, and places importance on focusing on what is actually happening in Japan's society, health care, and policy settings. The lab was established in 1947 as the first department of public health in Japan.
Daisuke Nishi, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare1 student voices
The lab studies how to protect and support mental health. The lab consists of two teams, Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing. Although their perspectives differ, they share many of the same issues and methodologies. The Mental Health team applies a public health approach to preventing mental illness and promoting mental health in communities and workplaces. The Psychiatric Nursing team conducts research from a nursing perspective, so that people who need support can live in a way that is true to themselves.
Fujimoto A, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Human Genetics Lab studies human heredity and diversity. The lab finds genetic diversity and variants in the human genome and clarifies what functions they have. It aims to apply its findings to disease research. Using both experiments and computational analysis, the lab tackles a wide range of problems in human genetics.
Kenichi Ohki, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The lab, the Department of Integrative Physiology, studies how the brain processes visual information. It uses methods such as two-photon calcium imaging, which allows neuronal activity to be observed in living animals, and optogenetics. This approach can record the activity of thousands of neurons simultaneously, and the lab uses it to investigate neural circuits in the visual cortex. The lab aims to clarify how neural circuits in the mammalian visual cortex process information.
Noboru Mizushima, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Mizushima Lab studies intracellular degradation mechanisms, with a focus on autophagy. Autophagy is the process by which cytoplasmic proteins and organelles are delivered to lysosomes and degraded. The components of the body are constantly degraded and rebuilt. The lab investigates, at the molecular level, the machinery responsible for this degradation. The lab uses a wide range of approaches, from biochemistry and microscopy to model organisms such as mice and zebrafish, and even mathematical modeling.
Masahide Kikkawa, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The lab seeks to understand how the epithelium, the interface between the cell and the outside world, is formed, mainly by quantitatively "seeing" it with cryo-electron microscopy. Using flagella and cilia, which play important roles in the body, as models, the lab aims to establish "structural cell biology," which reveals the structure of organelles at the molecular level. Cryo-electron microscopy is a method that observes samples while they are rapidly frozen, without chemically fixing or staining them. The lab is also one of the departments responsible for teaching anatomy and histology, and it works with other departments to teach dissection and histology to undergraduate students.
Shumpei Ishikawa, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare1 student voices
The Department of Preventive Medicine studies public health problems centered on cancer. It uses the perspectives of genome science and information science to find points where prevention and treatment can intervene. Complex systems made up of many types of cells, such as cancer and inflammatory and immune diseases, are measured at scale at the genomic level to clarify their dynamics. The lab also develops bioinformatics technologies, including artificial intelligence, to extract essential information from large, high-dimensional genome sequences and images. Founded in 1885, it is the oldest lab at the University of Tokyo.
Hiroshi Takayanagi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The lab analyzes, at the molecular level, how immune cells differentiate and how the innate and adaptive immune systems are regulated, with the aim of understanding immune responses in an integrated way. As a pioneer of osteoimmunology, which studies the interactions and shared regulatory mechanisms between bone and the immune system, the lab has driven the advancement of this field. The lab focuses on the bone marrow and the thymus, the central organs of the immune system, combining comprehensive and single-cell analyses with in vivo validation using genetically modified mice. Its goal is to contribute to the development of treatments for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, and for bone and joint diseases such as osteoporosis.
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