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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.
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.
Makoto Takeda, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Department of Microbiology studies, at the molecular level, how viruses, mainly respiratory viruses, infect hosts, replicate, and cause disease. Through basic research that uncovers the interactions between viruses and their hosts one by one, the department works to get to the heart of infectious disease. It aims to turn the knowledge gained into new methods and technologies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The department hopes to be a place where motivated students and young researchers can discuss freely and take on challenges.
Takeshi Imai, Associate Professor
1 student voices
The Imai Lab studies the development and clinical application of medical artificial intelligence systems, in the interdisciplinary area where medicine, engineering, and informatics overlap. It combines knowledge-based reasoning built on clinical knowledge databases with natural language processing using machine learning and large language models. Its work includes computer-aided diagnosis and clinical care support, patient safety support, and knowledge discovery from large-scale clinical databases. The lab also puts effort into social implementation, releasing what it builds as services that people actually use.
Takashi Saito, Professor
1 student voices
The Saito Lab studies how neurodegenerative diseases arise, focusing on dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The lab aims to go from elucidating these mechanisms to research on prevention, treatment, and drug discovery for delaying disease onset. Using model mice that reproduce the pathology, the lab examines the molecules and cells involved in disease pathophysiology one by one. Under a new setup in which Prof. Saito took up the post in February 2026, the lab is pursuing a wide range of collaborative research, including with pharmaceutical companies.
Cevayir Coban, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Malaria Immunology Lab studies the immune responses that occur in the body during malaria infection. Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, infects both mammals and Anopheles mosquitoes as hosts, and it has a variety of strategies for evading the immune system. The lab uses mouse malaria models, genetically modified mice, imaging, and other approaches to investigate how the parasite and its host interact. The lab aims to create new ways of protecting people from malaria, such as therapeutic drugs and vaccines.
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