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Yuichi Taniguchi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Bioanalytical Chemistry Lab studies new analytical methods that capture how life works at the molecular level. By combining insights from biology, chemistry, physics, AI, and other fields, the lab captures biological phenomena that earlier methods could not reveal. The lab investigates at the molecular level why drugs work or fail to work, and the mechanisms behind how each cell responds differently to a drug. It aims to apply these results to AI-based prediction of drug response, laying the foundation for next-generation drug discovery and precision medicine.
Urano Yasuteru, Professor (Concurrent)
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Medicinal Plant Chemistry Lab, together with the Medicinal Plant Garden affiliated with the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, works with plants that can be used as medicine (medicinal plants). Humans have used plants as medicine since ancient times. What has been preserved through that experience is today's crude drugs. The importance of plant-derived pharmaceuticals remains unchanged, and research on plants as a source of medicines is still developing. The affiliated Medicinal Plant Garden is located next to the Kemigawa General Sports Ground, and its grounds include greenhouses and a research building.
Masayuki Inoue, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Natural Products Synthetic Chemistry Lab studies total synthesis, the use of organic synthesis to build in full natural products that act strongly on the body. Its targets are natural products densely packed with polar functional groups, and large peptide-based natural products that may function like proteins. Even today, there is no established method for the total synthesis of such natural products. The lab develops new reactions, synthetic methods, and strategies for this purpose. The lab also aims to create new functional molecules with properties not found in natural products, as well as miniaturized proteins.
Akiko Takahashi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Cellular Senescence Biology Lab studies, at the molecular level, how cells undergo senescence. Cellular senescence is triggered by various stresses that can lead to cancer, and is thought to be closely involved in age-related diseases such as cancer as well as in the aging of the body. The lab aims to clarify the molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence and to control cancer and aging. The lab was launched in July 2025 at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo.
Sadao Ota, Professor
Imaging & Sensing0 student voices
Ota Lab develops next-generation biotechnology that pursues the value of information. By combining optical, electrical, microfluidic, and soft-material technologies with information science and synthetic biology, the lab creates new measurement mechanisms. Its research targets include molecules, bacteria, cells, extracellular vesicles, and organoids, with the aim of discovering phenomena in biomedical science and biophysics and elucidating their mechanisms. The members include hardware experts in optics and fluidics as well as experts in biology and chemistry, and they advance research through collaboration across fields.
Risa K Kawaguchi, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Kawaguchi Lab uses computational life science and bioinformatics to understand biological phenomena common to all cells. It is known that even among individuals or cells with the same genome, various differences (heterogeneity) arise. Based on high-dimensional data, the lab seeks to clarify the mechanisms that determine various biological processes. Using the latest information science and artificial intelligence technologies, the lab aims to understand biological systems in a form that humans can interpret.
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