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Tsuyoshi Minami, Associate Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Minami Lab centers on supramolecular chemistry inspired by how living organisms distinguish molecules, and its work spans everything from the design and synthesis of materials to the development of electronic devices and chips. The lab particularly focuses on developing sensor devices that can detect substances involved in biological phenomena, as well as environmental pollutants, using electrical or optical signals. The lab aims to create materials that capture invisible molecules harmful to the body and signal their presence by glowing, as well as devices that monitor the body's health condition in real time.
Hiroshi Masai, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Organic Functional Design Lab creates new molecules and studies the reactions and functions unique to them. By combining new molecular shapes with new elements, the lab creates reactions, molecules, and functions that have never existed before. Through molecular design, the lab realizes reactions and functions that were long considered impossible, aiming to solve a wide range of academic and societal problems with the power of molecules.
Shinsuke Sando, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Sando Lab produces a wide variety of biomolecules on a large scale, examines them all at once, and studies how a molecule's shape relates to its role in living organisms. It clarifies the "design principles" that determine abilities such as passing through cell membranes and distinguishing diseases, and connects them to next-generation therapeutics. The lab focuses in particular on disease chemical biology, which explores disease mechanisms through chemistry, and on drug discovery using mid-sized molecules.
Takuzo Aida, Distinguished Professor
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The Aida Lab researches new materials based on “supramolecules,” which form when molecules assemble through weak forces. Its goal is to connect new molecules and materials to solutions for real-world problems in areas such as energy and medicine. In addition to knowledge of organic chemistry and molecular assemblies, the lab draws on ideas from photochemistry and electrochemistry. It also learns a great deal from the functions of living organisms. The lab at Hongo Campus began as an endowed chair funded by Kao Corporation, and it also conducts basic research that leads to products such as hair care and skin care.
Naoko Yoshie, Professor
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The Yoshie Lab studies the structure and dynamics of polymers and how to control them in order to give materials new functions. Polymers move far more slowly than small molecules, and the multilevel structures that arise from this slow motion are the source of their wide range of properties. The lab has developed polymers that heal damage with water or mild heating, as well as materials with uniform network structures. The lab also places importance on developing technologies that keep plastics in circulation, including materials made from bio-based raw materials, materials that degrade in the ocean, and chemical recycling.
Hirohiko Hojo, Professor
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The Hojo Lab conducts research under the banner of "molecular assembly engineering," which deals with states in which large numbers of molecules are gathered together. Even the same molecule can show very different properties depending on how the molecules are arranged relative to one another. Water and ice are one example. The lab investigates the relationship between molecular arrangement and material properties, considers the arrangements in which molecular functions are fully exploited, and aims to connect this to the development of new materials. To arrange molecules as intended, the lab uses the ideas and strategies of supramolecular chemistry.
Yoshiho Ikeuchi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Ikeuchi Lab recreates outside the body the processes by which tissues such as the brain form, and studies how the brain develops as well as related diseases. The lab investigates how neurons and the brain each build their own characteristic shapes. The lab aims to generate neural tissue (organoids) from human iPS cells, connect the pieces together, and make them function as neural circuits. The lab's members are diverse, and the lab has a strongly international character.
Kazuaki Kudo, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Kudo Lab studies making things based on synthetic organic chemistry. Research proceeds by considering what to make, what to make it from, how to make it, and what to use the finished product for. The lab regards peptides, molecules made of linked amino acids, as organic molecules with functions such as catalysis, and develops them. Many of the peptides developed are robust enough to work even in water.
Kotaro Tsuboyama, Lecturer
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Tsuboyama Lab aims to design proteins artificially and rationally, and works to uncover the principles governing protein properties and functions. Proteins are molecules made of chains of amino acids, and because the number of possible sequence combinations is astronomically large, they exhibit a wide variety of functions. For this reason, it is difficult to rationally design new proteins without a thorough understanding of the features that underlie their properties and functions. To address this, the lab combines large-scale analysis methods with machine learning, including deep learning.
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