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Motomu Kanai, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The lab studies synthetic organic chemistry, in which molecules are designed and made, with new catalytic reactions at its core. Research proceeds in three areas: creating molecules, creating functions, and creating order. The lab also works on drug discovery based on a new concept: having chemical catalysts act inside the body to treat disease. Aiming for substantial, long-term research that looks 10 to 20 years ahead, the lab provides a place where students can experience the excitement of cutting-edge research.
Yuko Otani, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Medicinal Chemistry Lab discovers new phenomena in organic chemistry, tests how general they are, and uses them to create functional organic molecules. Its goal is to build an integrated form of organic chemistry in which the chemical phenomena the lab has discovered are applied to the creation of biologically active molecules. The lab is interested not only in synthesizing highly active compounds but also in understanding, at the level of protein structural chemistry, how their activity arises from their structure. By exploring the new organic chemistry and new functions that novel molecular structures generate, the lab pursues new concepts that are broadly applicable.
Ataru Igarashi, Project Associate Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Health Policy and Public Health Lab is a Social Cooperation Program of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and studies health policy and public health. The lab aims to generate evidence (scientific grounds) tailored to clinical needs and to propose value-based health policy. A key challenge for the lab is to allocate healthcare resources appropriately based on evidence, so that both the public healthcare system and innovation can be sustained.
Urano Yasuteru, Professor (Concurrent)
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The lab studies the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals, as well as the systems for their development and regulation. Its research and education go beyond the scientific evaluation of drugs to cover their medical and social value, as well as drug administration and legal systems. Its aims are to train the specialists needed to bring pharmaceuticals into practical use, to raise the quality of clinical trials and new drug approval reviews, and to get the drugs patients want to the clinical setting sooner. In addition to graduate students, the lab offers lectures and courses that professionals from pharmaceutical companies and government agencies can also take.
Hiroki Satoh, Associate Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Drug Lifetime Management Lab studies ways to help medicines that have reached the market realize their full potential. This approach is called Drug Lifetime Management (DLM). The lab analyzes post-marketing information collected from healthcare and nursing care settings, homes, and pharmaceutical companies, aiming to apply it to the proper use of medicines and to post-marketing drug development. The lab also works on building educational systems to train the people who will carry out DLM.
Tappei Takada, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lab is part of the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Tokyo Hospital, and conducts research to understand the living body as a single system. The lab clarifies not only how each molecule that makes up the body functions, but also how these molecules combine to operate as a whole. Using systems pharmacology approaches, the lab aims to identify effective drug targets and to predict adverse drug reactions at an early stage. The lab also conducts clinical research on patients who visit the hospital.
Yuji Ikegaya, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Chemical Pharmacology Lab studies plasticity, the ability of the brain to be active on its own and to change itself through that activity. Brain development, memory, and diseases such as depression and dementia can all be understood as some kind of change occurring in the brain. The lab investigates how brain circuits are built, how they work, and how they break down, and explores ways to treat, prevent, and diagnose brain diseases. Through this research, the lab aims to contribute to drug discovery science.
Shohei Hori, Professor (Concurrent)
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Molecular Oncology Pharmacology Lab is a Social Cooperation Program of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and studies hematopoietic stem cells and hematologic malignancies (blood cancers). In basic research, the lab aims to elucidate biological phenomena; in areas closer to clinical application, it aims to study disease mechanisms, drug resistance, and combination therapies. A distinguishing feature of the lab is that it has developed an efficient gene transfer method using retroviral vectors and uses it to advance its research. Research is conducted through open discussion.
Urano Yasuteru, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Drug Metabolism Chemistry Lab conducts life science research grounded in chemistry (chemical biology). By precisely designing small organic molecules, the lab creates its own original chemical tools that make visible biological phenomena that could not be observed directly before. The lab is also developing entirely new medical technologies, such as methods that quickly make cancer and other diseased tissue glow during surgery. The lab carries out research that connects chemistry with biology and pharmacy with medicine, working together with lab members in the Faculty of Medicine.
Yukiko Gotoh, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The lab studies at the molecular level how cell fate is determined, focusing on the process by which the brain is formed. Neural stem cells in the brain proliferate while generating many types of neurons and glial cells, and these cells assemble the brain as a tissue. Focusing on the regulation of gene expression by the epigenome and by chromatin inside the nucleus, the lab investigates the mechanisms that control the fates of neural stem cells and neurons. The lab is also working to understand how abnormalities in brain development lead to conditions such as psychiatric disorders.
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