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Atsushi Kambayashi, Associate Professor
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The Kambayashi Lab conducts research that uses mathematical models to quantitatively predict how drugs are absorbed in the body and how they take effect. The lab develops both mechanistic models, which are based on underlying mechanisms, and data-driven models, which are built from data. By understanding drug quality and pharmacokinetics together, the lab aims to support decision-making in drug development and patient-centric quality design. The lab places research at the center of education. It values developing students' ability to set their own problems and lead them to solutions, and to communicate their results in both Japanese and English.
Kosuke Kusamori, Associate Professor
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The Kusamori Lab studies the development of "cell-based medicines," in which living cells are administered to patients to cure disease. Using pharmaceutics, drug delivery systems, and cell and tissue engineering, the lab aims to turn cells into effective and safe "medicines." Using somatic stem cells and iPS cells, the lab controls which type of cell a stem cell becomes and builds tissue-like constructs, and also works to clarify biological phenomena in which cells are involved. The lab is also developing "mitochondria-based medicines," which use mitochondria, the organelles inside cells, to cure disease.
Makiya Nishikawa, Professor
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The Nishikawa Lab aims to develop drug delivery systems (DDS) that precisely control the interaction between the “drugs” given to treat disease and the “body.” Because drugs act by interacting with molecules, cells, and organs in the body, the lab believes that maximizing only the useful action (drug efficacy) would lead to effective treatment. From the standpoints of biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, the lab is building new methods to control how drugs move in the body, along with systems to evaluate that movement quantitatively. The lab tests the effectiveness of the methods it creates in cells and in animal models of disease.
Takumi Asakura, Professor
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The Asakura Lab studies the phenomena of sound and vibration based on mechanical engineering. The lab develops simulations that predict vibration and sound occurring at scales ranging from cities to fine structures, along with control technologies to suppress them. Because vibration and sound are closely related, the lab investigates techniques for calculating the vibration and sound of structures together, and methods for suppressing both efficiently. The lab also conducts research that incorporates human factors engineering, namely how people perceive and feel vibration and sound, and carries out joint research with outside research institutions.
Hideyuki Taguchi, Professor
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Taguchi Lab conducts research aimed at realizing spaceplanes that can travel from an airport to space, and hypersonic passenger aircraft that cross the Pacific in two hours. The research focuses on the shape of vehicles that fly at high speed through the atmosphere, and on hypersonic engines capable of high-speed flight. In collaboration with universities, research institutions, and companies in Japan and abroad, the lab is demonstrating the technologies needed for practical use through flight experiments with small experimental vehicles, engine tests, and more. Prof. Taguchi joined the lab in April 2026, after working on the research and development of hypersonic engines at organizations including the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Hiroshi Takemura, Professor
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Takemura Lab (Biomechanics Lab) studies the measurement and modeling of human movement, centered on robotics and biomechanics. Together with external medical institutions and others, the lab also carries out research and development of medical and welfare devices. The lab collaborates actively with external research institutions, and some projects involve students going to those institutions to contribute to the research there.
Ryuichi Nishihama, Professor
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The Nishihama Lab studies the mechanisms of growth and development shared by land plants. Because plants use the products of photosynthesis for their own growth, they have evolved ways of regulating growth that make good use of photosynthesis. Land plants evolved from a single common ancestor, so they share a set of genes and the mechanisms that regulate their functions. Mainly using the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, a bryophyte and a model organism, the lab uses genetic modification techniques and omics analysis to uncover how growth is regulated in coordination with photosynthesis.
Yoshimichi Tsukamoto, Professor
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The Tsukamoto Lab studies soil mechanics, the branch of geotechnical engineering that deals with the mechanical properties of soil. In the Great East Japan Earthquake, sandy ground liquefied over a wide area of the Kanto region, causing major damage to infrastructure structures, lifelines, and detached houses. Through laboratory tests and field surveys, the lab investigates how water-saturated sandy ground comes to liquefy during an earthquake and how the ground flows.
Tadao Enomoto, Associate Professor
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The Enomoto Lab studies ground disasters from the perspective of geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. The structures that support society are built on or in the ground, and Japan is a country with many ground disasters, such as liquefaction during earthquakes, slope failures caused by heavy rain, and subsidence of reclaimed land. The lab conducts surveys and observations at disaster sites, performs soil tests on collected soil, and carries out model experiments that reproduce the field conditions. By interpreting the resulting data, the lab clarifies the mechanisms of ground disasters and links this to the development of technologies that reduce the damage from disasters.
Masayuki Inoe, Professor
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The Inoe Lab (called the "Inoe-Suzuki Lab" on the lab's website) is a lab oriented toward chemistry education that researches and develops chemistry experiment materials for use in school classrooms. Centered on themes in organic chemistry, the lab develops experiment materials from a scientific perspective, including new reaction reagents and catalysts, and methods for separating and detecting trace products. The lab's goal is "safe, low-waste experiment materials in harmony with the global environment." Graduate students belong to the Department of Science Education in the Graduate School of Science, and after graduating, many choose careers involving science outreach, including becoming junior high and high school teachers.
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