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Yoko Aoki, Professor
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The Medical Genetics lab searches for genes that cause hereditary diseases and studies how those diseases arise. It analyzes causative genes using next-generation sequencers, and builds and analyzes zebrafish models. Its members include certified genetic counselors from the Department of Clinical Genetics, who provide genetic counseling. Students in the Public Health and Genetic Counseling Course also belong to this lab.
Manabu Tashiro, Professor
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The Cyclotron Nuclear Medicine lab studies molecular imaging, which observes the behavior of molecules in a living body from outside the body while it is alive. Molecular imaging is a new interdisciplinary field at the boundary of medicine, engineering, biomedical engineering, and pharmaceutical sciences, and it uses methods such as positron emission tomography (PET). The lab is located in the Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, where it runs the university's shared-use system while mainly carrying out clinical research using PET. As a cooperating division of the Graduate School of Medicine, it is also the site of the Molecular Imaging education course.
Tomoko Kobayashi, Professor
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The Pediatric Development Lab is in charge of supporting health surveys of children who take part in the genome cohort study of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project. This project conducts a large-scale genome cohort study aimed at putting genomic medicine into practical use, and children from Miyagi Prefecture participate in it. The lab helps assess the health status of the participating children and links this to personalized prevention and medical care. The lab also aims to carry out research that uses genomic medicine to enable personalized prevention and medical care for multifactorial diseases in children.
Keiichi Jingu, Professor (Concurrent)
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The Radiation Biology Lab conducts basic research on radiation therapy for cancer and research on the effects of low-dose radiation on living organisms. Focusing on ATM and DNA-PK, which are DNA double-strand break repair enzymes, the lab studies radiosensitization of cancer, prediction of radiosensitivity, and radioprotection of normal tissue. The lab also aims to clarify at the molecular level how low-dose and low-dose-rate radiation causes vascular lesions such as myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
Hideki Katagiri, Professor
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The Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology Lab carries out research, clinical practice, and education on metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and atherosclerosis. Because blood glucose levels and body weight are determined by the sum of the metabolic states of organs throughout the body, the lab investigates how organs coordinate with one another to regulate whole-body metabolism. The lab's clinical division is the Department of Diabetes and Metabolism at Tohoku University Hospital, and experience in clinical practice is the starting point of its research. The lab provides support and guidance so that every graduate of the graduate school can obtain qualification as a board-certified diabetologist.
Satoshi Yasuda, Professor
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Cardiovascular Medicine is a clinical department that treats diseases of the heart and blood vessels. It grew out of the former First Department of Internal Medicine, which has a history spanning more than a century. In research, it aims to elucidate the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease and develop cutting-edge medical care. In education, it aims to train the people who will lead cardiovascular care in the future. In clinical practice, it serves as the "last resort" for severe cardiovascular disease, providing advanced, best-possible care. Its policy is to advance research, education, and clinical care together as one. Tohoku University has specialists who provide advanced care, including ventricular assist devices and heart transplantation, for a wide range of conditions such as ischemic heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiomyopathy.
Shimpei Kawamoto, Professor
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The lab studies how the communities of microorganisms that live symbiotically in the human body (the microbiome) affect aging through the immune system. From many angles, the lab analyzes how changes in the bacteria living in the gut, mouth, and skin cause immune aging and cellular senescence, leading to a decline in tissue function. The lab's ultimate goal is to extend healthspan by regulating the microbiome and the immune system.
Hidenori Endo, Professor
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The Higher Brain Dysfunction Lab studies both higher brain dysfunction and dementia, which arise after brain diseases or injuries, through patient care and research. Higher brain functions are the complex neural functions that make us human, such as attention, memory, language, visuospatial cognition, and executive function. The lab rests on three pillars: higher brain dysfunction caused by focal brain damage, dementia, and higher brain dysfunction in epilepsy. In 1994, it was founded at Tohoku University as the first clinical department in Japan specializing in this field.
Masatoshi Saito, Professor
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The Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Pathophysiology aims to unravel the mysteries of the intrauterine environment during pregnancy, create new knowledge, and develop entirely new methods of diagnosis and treatment. The lab covers research from basic to clinical, working on artificial placentas and artificial wombs, fetal electrocardiography, and basic research in mice. In its predecessor, the Department of Biomedical Engineering for Fusion of Medicine and Engineering, the lab put great effort into developing fetal electrocardiography, which records the electrical signals of the fetal heart through the mother's abdominal wall, and succeeded in bringing it to market as a product. The lab's website lists side by side the names of Obstetrics and Fetal Pathophysiology in the Graduate School of Medicine and Near-Future Life Information Engineering in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering.
Hiroaki Tomita, Professor
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The Disaster Psychiatry lab at Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science studies the effects on mental health of disasters, including the Great East Japan Earthquake. It uses multifaceted approaches from basic medicine, clinical medicine, and related fields. The lab conducts basic research toward elucidating the mechanisms of, and developing treatments for, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder thought to be caused by disasters and the stress they bring. Through large-scale, ongoing surveys in disaster-affected areas, the lab also works to help build systems for mental health response during disasters.
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