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Susumu Goto, Visiting Professor
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The Goto Lab researches and develops integrated databases for biological information and its use. Omics data from humans and many other organisms is being generated in huge volumes, and databases to handle that data, along with mechanisms that help interpret it, have become increasingly important. In addition to developing databases, the lab works on methods and tools that use databases to infer function, and on supporting the extraction of knowledge from the literature. The lab is located at the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), where students also do most of their research.
Koichi Ito, Professor
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The Ito-Endo Lab studies how proteins are made inside cells (the translation reaction). The lab aims to understand phenomena that occur in cells as the workings of biomolecules. Drawing on the approaches of molecular genetics and synthetic biology, the lab conducts experiments using Escherichia coli and budding yeast as model organisms. The lab was launched in 2012 at the University of Tokyo's Kashiwa Campus.
Akihiro Tomita, Visiting Professor
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The Tomita Lab focuses on the growth environment inside the body that is characteristic of cancer (the tumor microenvironment), and studies molecularly targeted therapies that target the tumor microenvironment. To survive in harsh environments lacking oxygen and nutrients, cancer cells adapt to environmental stress through mechanisms different from those of normal cells. The lab investigates these adaptation mechanisms using gene expression analysis and bioinformatics. The lab is located in the Division of Genome Research at the Cancer Chemotherapy Center of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, and is a collaborative chair of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences.
Shingo Kano, Professor
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The Kano-Matsuo Lab studies innovation in the life sciences and medicine using social science methods. The lab aims to develop students' ability to deal with intellectual property, technical standards, and the rules for using new technologies as a whole. Its work keeps returning to two questions: what kinds of innovation are occurring within industry, and how to measure them. Research themes are developed from students' own interests, and the lab spends considerable time reworking them into well-formed research questions.
Susumu Goyama, Professor
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The Goyama Lab studies the mechanisms of cancer pathophysiology and new treatments, focusing on hematologic malignancies such as leukemia. With "curing cancer" as a realistic goal, the lab is developing treatments that use a variety of cutting-edge technologies and the power of the immune system. The lab also conducts research to clarify how blood cells affect the progression of solid tumors and cardiovascular diseases, and to apply the findings to treatment and prevention.
Katsutaka Oishi, Visiting Professor
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The Oishi Lab studies the circadian clock, a mechanism that keeps rhythm on a cycle of about 24 hours. The central clock is in the brain, but clock genes work throughout the body, including in the liver and heart. The lab investigates how the circadian clock relates to sleep disorders and lifestyle-related diseases, focusing on clock genes and approaching the question from molecular mechanisms. The lab aims to adjust the body's rhythms through lifestyle habits centered on diet, and to apply this to preventing and improving diseases and to chrono-nutrition.
Kentaro Tomii, Visiting Professor
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The Tomii Lab studies computational biology, which analyzes biological data with computers. The lab develops analysis methods that discover new biological knowledge from the vast stores of data on the sequences, structures, and functions of proteins and other molecules. Its main areas are predicting the three-dimensional structures of proteins and analyzing sequence information. The lab is located within the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and students mainly conduct their research there.
Tomita Kozo, Professor
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The Tomita (Kozo) Lab studies how functional RNAs that act inside cells are regulated. Cells contain many non-coding RNAs, which are not translated into proteins and are involved in processes such as cell differentiation and the development of cancer. The lab focuses on the enzymes and proteins that produce these RNAs and regulate their functions. In addition to molecular biology and biochemistry, the lab examines molecular structures using X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy to clarify the mechanisms of the reactions.
Nono Tomita, Associate Professor
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Tomita Lab studies the mechanisms of protein synthesis, which is fundamental to life. The lab clarifies at the molecular level how proteins are made in bacteria, eukaryotes, and mitochondria, with the aim of understanding the systems of life. Using protein synthesis systems reassembled in test tubes, the lab also conducts engineering research on producing biopharmaceuticals. Through biomedical engineering, the lab aims to contribute to the development of new diagnostic methods and medical technologies.
Riu Yamashita, Visiting Associate Professor
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The Yamashita Lab studies cancer using the medical and biological data gathered at the National Cancer Center Japan. From multilayered data such as genomes and RNA, the lab searches for clues to how cancers arise and how they can be treated. The lab uses bioinformatics methods to organize large volumes of data and extract information from them. The lab is based at the Exploratory Oncology Research and Clinical Trial Center of the National Cancer Center Japan, next to the University of Tokyo's Kashiwa Campus.
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