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Shuhei Nomura, Professor
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The Global Health Policy Lab studies global-scale health challenges, including antimicrobial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, the spread of lifestyle-related diseases, and humanitarian crises caused by conflict and climate change. Using data such as one of the world's largest epidemiological datasets, the lab visualizes health challenges in fine detail, and on the basis of that scientific evidence, works with governments and international organizations in Japan and abroad to design policies and support their implementation. By moving back and forth between data and policy decision-making, the lab aims to generate insights that move the world. The lab is part of the Division of Disaster Medicine at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University.
Toru Nakazawa, Professor
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The Ophthalmology Lab is part of the Tohoku University School of Medicine, and works on clinical care and research for eye diseases and on the training of physicians. Clinical care, research, and education are its three main pillars, and through research the lab aims for true prevention of blindness. Its research includes developing neuroprotective therapies, developing drug delivery systems, developing treatments for retinal diseases, and identifying the causative genes of hereditary diseases. A distinctive feature of the lab is that physicians, researchers in science, engineering, and pharmacy, researchers from companies, and international students work in the same place and discuss their research together.
Toshimi Aizawa, Professor
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The Orthopaedic Surgery Lab provides clinical care for diseases of the musculoskeletal system, such as the limbs and spine, and conducts a wide range of research from basic to clinical studies. The research page introduces groups working on joint mechanics, biomaterials such as artificial joints and artificial bone, cartilage and muscle, stiff shoulders, and posture and gait analysis. The lab also actively pursues joint research with other parts of Tohoku University, such as the Institute for Materials Research and the School of Dental Medicine. In clinical care, the university and its affiliated hospitals work together to provide the best treatment for each patient.
Masahiro Hiratsuka, Professor
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The lab studies, from a genomic perspective, why the same drug works differently or causes different side effects from person to person. It investigates at the molecular level how genetic polymorphisms, small differences in DNA sequence in the human genome, affect drug response. Its methods include genome analysis with next-generation sequencers, functional analysis of drug-metabolizing enzymes, and quantitative analysis of drugs and metabolites by LC-MS/MS. The lab's website also introduces it under the name "Hiratsuka PGx Lab."
Eiichi Kodama, Professor
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The lab focuses on infectious diseases in disasters and studies the development of antiviral drugs and other treatments for infectious diseases. It works not only on the epidemiology and diagnosis of pathogens but also on developing therapeutic drugs, and it also clarifies the mechanisms of drug resistance and improves diagnostic methods. International collaborative research with the United States and other countries, as well as within Japan, is active. The lab belongs to the Disaster Medical Science Division of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, and its faculty also hold appointments in the Graduate School of Medicine.
Shinichi Kuriyama, Professor
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The lab studies the medium- and long-term effects of large-scale disasters on health, using large-scale epidemiological surveys. As the foundation of its research, the lab has built the "Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study," a research design that is the first of its kind in the world. It aims to identify effective health improvement measures for each stage of life starting from the fetal period, and to put them into practice. Using molecular epidemiology methods, it also works to elucidate the pathology of multifactorial diseases, including autism spectrum disorder.
Noriko Fukuhara, Professor
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The lab conducts research aimed at clarifying the causes of hematologic diseases, which are intractable, and developing new treatments. One pillar of its research is basic research on the mechanisms of red blood cell differentiation, hematopoietic stem cells, and leukemia. The other pillar is clinical research, in which the lab carries out a prefecture-wide registry and survey study of malignant lymphoma and also takes part in multicenter collaborative studies and investigator-initiated clinical trials. The lab places importance on using its own research to clarify the causes that could not be resolved in the clinic and the treatments that the clinic needed, and to turn them into reality.
Mayuko Saito, Professor
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The lab studies infectious diseases, mainly those caused by viruses, not only in the laboratory but also through fieldwork overseas, in places such as Asia, Africa, and South America. The virology group conducts basic research focused on the pathogenicity and evolution of pathogenic viruses detected in the field. The epidemiology group proposes appropriate infectious disease control measures based on data collected in the field, and aims to conduct research that can contribute to public health measures. The lab advances research and practice in infectious disease control in collaboration with related areas such as public health and clinical medicine.
Tadashi Ishii, Professor
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The General Medicine Lab conducts research centered on community medicine, general practice, and alternative medicine, particularly research related to healthcare in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The faculty are specialists in a wide range of fields, including internal medicine, surgery, respiratory medicine, cardiology, neurology, nephrology, gastroenterology, and Kampo (traditional Japanese herbal medicine), and they practice symptomatology across clinical departments for patients whose conditions are difficult to diagnose. In medical education, the lab's mission is to practice and teach an approach based on symptoms and pathophysiology, together with clinical reasoning, and it provides education in medical interviewing and clinical training in outpatient settings. The lab also runs a program to train general practice specialists under the new board certification system for specialists.
Tomohiro Kaneta, Professor (Concurrent)
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The Autopsy Imaging Center combines forensic medicine and diagnostic image analysis to perform CT imaging and image interpretation of deceased persons, and to conduct research on them. In May 2009, the center began performing CT examinations before forensic autopsies, and it has continued to acquire and interpret postmortem images. Even in cases of postmortem external examination, where a physician estimates the cause of death from an external examination of the body alone, postmortem CT images have in some cases helped narrow down the cause of death. The center goes beyond imaging and interpretation, and also conducts research aimed at new developments in diagnostic imaging.
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