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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
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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
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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.
Megumi Haruna, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Maternal Nursing and Midwifery Lab studies the health of women and babies from pregnancy through childbirth and the postpartum period. Using biochemical and physiological methods as well as fieldwork in Japan and abroad, the lab clarifies what is happening in practice and develops methods of support. The lab has set up laboratory facilities that are unusual in nursing, and aims to provide care based on scientific evidence. The master's program in the graduate school has a midwifery education course that qualifies students to sit for the national midwife examination.
Kyoko Yoshioka, Associate Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Community Health Nursing Lab studies ways to improve the health and quality of life (QOL) of people living in the community and people receiving care at home. The lab supports not only individuals and families but also the whole community, treating it as a single unit. The lab works on building community care systems that allow older adults and people with disabilities to keep living in the communities they are familiar with, and on supporting the healthy development of children. In the master's program's Public Health Nurse Education Course, the lab trains public health nurses, who play a central role in building healthy communities.
Mari Ikeda, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Fundamental Nursing Lab studies how to deliver the power of nursing to people more effectively and put it to use in society. In addition to the strengths of individual nursing professionals, the lab values the power of nursing as a team and collaboration with a wide range of other professionals. Building on nursing science, the lab's research draws on organizational theory, management theory, policy studies, psychology, education, and data science. At the undergraduate level, the lab teaches courses in fundamental nursing and nursing management.
Yoshimasa Kawazoe, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Medical Informatics lab studies, from an informatics perspective, how information is handled within healthcare. The lab aims to gain new insights by analyzing the vast amounts of data accumulated in electronic health records and similar systems, and to support clinical practice itself with IT. The lab bases its research and education within the University of Tokyo Hospital. It is distinctive in operating the hospital's medical information system while using real data and systems as its research setting. At the graduate level, the lab is in charge of education for the Department of Social Medicine, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Health Sciences and Nursing.
Kayo Waki, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Waki DTx Lab studies digital health that uses information devices such as smartphones and wearables, together with apps. The lab develops apps for lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes, confirms their effects through clinical trials and clinical studies, and works to turn them into tools that are used in society. Recently, the lab has been focusing on developing apps with stronger features that bring about behavior change and encourage improvements in lifestyle. By working with the Faculty of Medicine, hospitals, and local clinics, the lab aims to carry out research and development that meets the needs of clinical practice.
Eisuke Nakazawa, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The lab studies the ethical and philosophical theories that form the foundation for healthcare policy decisions and for ethical judgments in clinical practice. In a field where medicine, philosophy, law, sociology, psychology, and religious studies overlap, the lab conducts empirical research in Japan and abroad alongside literature-based research. In 2019, the lab established the University of Tokyo Bioethics Collaborative Research Organization, through which it works with faculty members from departments across the university on bioethical issues in contemporary society. In its classes, the lab emphasizes not only understanding the issues but also acquiring ways of thinking ethically, and it puts strong effort into group discussions and exercises.
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