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Horacio Cabral, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Cabral Lab studies nanomedicines used for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. By accurately recognizing targets in the body and triggering a drug's action only at a defined site, the lab controls drug behavior down to the intracellular level. The lab investigates how to design effective nanomedicines and how they interact with the body, aiming to bring them to the treatment of patients. Using tiny polymer-based carriers, the lab works on methods for delivering mRNA and on cancer immunotherapy.
Miyata Kanjiro, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare2 student voices
The Miyata Lab studies nanometer-sized materials that function inside the body (nanobiomaterials). Using materials whose size and surface properties are tuned, the lab controls where drugs are carried within the body. In particular, the lab focuses on mechanisms for delivering nucleic acid therapeutics, which are made of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA, to targeted cells. Building on polymer materials and combining them with inorganic materials, the lab develops new nanomedicines.
Takayuki Shiraiwa, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics2 student voices
The lab studies the mechanisms by which materials fracture, as well as the reliability of materials. When a material is subjected to mechanical loads or environmental stress, deformation and cracks form in its fine internal microstructure, eventually leading to visible fracture. Combining experimental observations with simulations that faithfully reproduce them, the lab investigates fracture from the mechanisms by which it begins to how the material fails as a whole. The lab also aims to analyze the large volumes of data obtained from simulations to gain insights useful for materials design.
Uchida Ken, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Uchida-Toyoshima Lab studies electronic devices at the scale of nanometers, as well as sensors that use nanomaterials. The transistors that form LSIs (integrated circuits) can no longer easily gain performance just by being made smaller. Through both experiments and computation, the lab seeks to understand phenomena that occur in the nanoscale world, such as heat generation and quantum effects, and to provide guidelines for future device design. The lab also works on nanoscale molecular sensors that can distinguish the components of a person's breath.
Yoshikuni Yoshida, Professor
Environment & Sustainability2 student voices
The Yoshida Lab takes a broad view of energy and environmental issues and conducts research for the sustainable development of humanity. Its topics range from improving everyday environments to supporting policy decision-making, all of them useful for solving global environmental problems. Using methods from engineering, economics, and behavioral science, the lab evaluates technologies that benefit the environment and their introduction into society. It is particularly strong in cross-disciplinary research that keeps the efficient use of energy in mind.
Tomochika Tokunaga, Professor
Environment & Sustainability2 student voices
The Geosphere Environmental Systems Lab studies the environment of the geosphere beneath our feet. The geosphere is used for extracting energy resources, drawing groundwater, disposing of waste, and developing tunnels and underground shopping areas, and these uses also give rise to environmental challenges. The lab seeks to understand and predict how the interaction between humans and nature changes the geosphere environment, and develops the technologies needed to use the geosphere in harmony with the environment.
Jun Takahashi, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Takahashi Lab studies advanced composite materials made with carbon fiber and other materials, along with the technologies needed to put them to use in society. For the future of transportation and logistics, including electric vehicles and autonomous driving, the lab develops materials that are lightweight, mass-producible, and easy to recycle. The lab also works on simulation-based design technologies for assist suits and robots used in sports, medical care, and nursing care. In addition, the lab is developing hybrid materials for wind turbines and infrastructure that are buoyant, durable, and easy to repair and reuse.
Ichiro Sakata, Professor
Economics & Social Systems2 student voices
The Sakata-Mori-Asatani Lab uses AI and data science methods to study phenomena related to management, society, and science and technology. The lab works with a wide range of data, including big data from academic papers, social media, corporate transaction records, and review texts. Centered on machine learning, natural language processing, and network analysis, the lab also works on analyzing generative AI (large language models). Students choose their own research topics and the faculty focus on supporting them, so the topics in the lab are highly diverse.
Taro Kanno, Associate Professor
Economics & Social Systems2 student voices
Kanno Lab studies safe and resilient sociotechnical systems from a human-centered perspective. The lab investigates how teams and organizations cooperate, using models and computer simulations. It also develops business continuity plans (BCPs) for disaster-resilient societies. The lab combines a range of methods, including field observation, experiments with participants, and software development.
Tomoya Kawabata, Professor
Structures & Mechanics2 student voices
The Kawabata Lab studies the mechanical safety assessment of materials used in large structures. In addition to the strength to withstand their own weight and earthquakes, structures need the durability to keep their shape over a long time, and the property of not letting damage spread even when a part fails. The lab mainly works with iron and steel materials, which are easy to process and whose properties change greatly with the addition of alloying elements and with heat treatment. The lab takes a multifaceted approach to research, combining theory-based modeling, experiments and observation, and numerical analysis.
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