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Naoto Ishii, Professor
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The Immunology Lab studies how immune cells work to protect the body and why abnormalities in them lead to disease. Built on three pillars—immune memory, group 2 innate lymphoid cells involved in allergy, and T cell homeostasis—the lab investigates these topics using genetically modified mice and other tools. The lab originated from the Department of Bacteriology, which was established in 1915 (Taisho 4) at the same time as the Medical College of Tohoku Imperial University. The graduate student recruitment section on the lab's top page says that its members come from diverse backgrounds, including graduates of science and engineering faculties and students who entered graduate school as working professionals.

Masaki Mori, Visiting Professor
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The Mori Lab studies the molecular mechanisms that give rise to properties specific to children (juvenility), with a view to treating intractable pediatric diseases. The lab is located at the Research Institute of the National Center for Child Health and Development in Setagaya, Tokyo, and as a cooperative graduate school of Tohoku University, it accepts doctoral students. Using whole-genome analysis, imaging, and a range of molecular biology methods without limiting itself to any one of them, the lab searches for ways to cure diseases. The lab's website presents it under the name “Masaki Mori Lab.”

Masanori Yamauchi, Professor
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The Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Lab chooses clinical questions from anesthesia care, intensive care, and the pain clinic as its research themes, and conducts both clinical and basic research. From professors to residents, every member continues clinical work centered on anesthesia in the operating rooms of the university hospital while also engaging in research. The lab holds that, precisely because its members are physicians working on the clinical front line, they can carry out research that is useful in daily anesthesia practice and that basic medical scientists would find difficult to conceive. It is a department with the history and tradition of having been the second of its kind established in Japan.

Hitoshi Shiwaku, Professor
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The Pediatric Nursing Lab pursues nursing care that supports children and families according to the life events that arise at each stage of development. It places particular emphasis on research, education, and practice in nursing care that supports children and families psychologically and socially. The lab works in collaboration with Tohoku University Hospital, schools, local communities, medical institutions, and other universities. It also trains pediatric nursing certified nurse specialists and engages in practice at a pediatric nursing outpatient clinic.

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.

Yuji Takahashi, Professor
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The Neurology and Psychiatry Lab (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry) conducts research that combines clinical and basic approaches on diseases in neurology. The lab investigates the causes of neurological diseases based on genome analysis, and carries out clinical research based on the confirmed disease subtypes. It is a doctoral-course lab in Medical Science, and its listed keywords are clinical neurology, molecular genetics, and neurodegenerative diseases.

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.
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