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Mayu Takahashi, Professor
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The lab studies how the brain selects information that enters the eyes and converts it into the behavior of eye movements. When looking at something, the brain unconsciously switches among multiple types of eye movements, including saccades, fast eye movements that shift gaze to a target all at once. Mainly using monkeys, the lab examines neural circuits with physiological and anatomical methods, aiming to clarify the mechanisms in the brain that convert visual input into eye movement output. Combining behavioral, cognitive, and neurophysiological methods in both humans and animals, the lab addresses how the brain links seeing and acting.
Yoichi Hirakata, Professor
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The lab studies respiratory medicine and tuberculosis care in community healthcare from both clinical and basic perspectives. It is based at Kurihara Central Hospital and belongs to the Division of Medical Science (Master's and Doctoral Programs) of the Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University. The research introduction page lists infectious diseases, respiratory, and tuberculosis as keywords.
Juro Sakai, Professor
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The Molecular Metabolism and Physiology Division (Sakai Lab) studies how lifestyle-related diseases arise, from the perspective of the epigenome, which regulates gene function. The epigenome refers to genetic information that is maintained by DNA methylation and histone modification, separately from the DNA base sequence. It has been suggested that lifestyle is remembered in the epigenome and is a key factor in the onset of lifestyle-related diseases and glucose and lipid metabolism disorders. Through epigenome analysis, the lab clarifies sleep, energy metabolism, and their regulatory mechanisms, and takes on the challenge of developing treatments for lifestyle-related diseases.
Sohtaro Mimasaka, Professor
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The Forensic Medicine Division studies causes of death, identity, and effects on the body through forensic autopsies, analysis of drugs and poisons, DNA testing, and postmortem imaging. The lab also conducts research on documenting, as evidence, injuries sustained by living people, such as in child abuse cases. Please note that the lab does not accept forensic examination requests from members of the public.
Hisatoshi Sugiura, Professor
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The Respiratory Medicine Lab handles a wide variety of respiratory diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, diffuse lung disease, and respiratory infections. With rapid population aging, the number of patients with respiratory diseases is expected to increase further. In collaboration with basic science departments and the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, the lab is advancing research toward biomarker development and drug discovery for intractable respiratory diseases. Recently, the lab has also been focusing on research into diffuse lung diseases and respiratory infections.
Koichiro Sugimura, Professor
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The Clinical Physiological Testing Lab studies clinical physiological tests such as electrocardiography, echocardiography, and pulmonary function testing, viewing them as important "windows" into how diseases develop. The lab pursues basic research, clinical research, and the work of making new technologies usable in clinical settings as one integrated effort. Basic experiments investigating the mechanisms of right heart failure and large-scale clinical studies are the two pillars of the lab. Going forward, the lab also aims to incorporate technologies such as AI into clinical research and to envision a new role for clinical laboratory technologists, with task shifting in healthcare settings in mind.
Yoshifumi Saijo, Professor
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The Saijo Lab (medical imaging) studies medical imaging technologies, centered on ultrasound, that examine organs inside the body without damaging it. The lab combines a wide range of engineering methods, from the design of ultrasound transducers to signal and image processing, optical systems, and artificial intelligence. Its goal is to see in greater detail the spatiotemporal variation of flow inside the body, capillary networks only tens of microns in size, structural changes inside living cells, and the three-dimensional structure of blood vessels. Graduate students from the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and the Graduate School of Medicine research together in the same lab.
Mitsunori Miyashita, Professor
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The Palliative Care Nursing Lab studies the palliative care needed in cancer nursing and in end-of-life care for patients with illnesses other than cancer. Established in Sendai, one of the regions in Japan most advanced in palliative care, the lab conducts education and research under the concept of "research that can be applied in the field." Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates hold lab seminars and study sessions, aiming to develop people with broad specialized knowledge and strong research ability. Graduate students who aim to qualify as Certified Nurse Specialists in Cancer Nursing complete the required credits in lectures and practicum.
Akira Sugawara, Professor
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The lab conducts research using molecular biological and biochemical approaches, aiming to solve problems in endocrine diseases and lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Its work spans a wide range, from purifying and identifying transcription factor complexes with proteomic approaches to discovering new drugs for diabetic nephropathy and primary aldosteronism through high-throughput screening. The professor's greeting describes the lab as a rewarding place for students who are interested in clinical medicine but want to pursue basic medical research. Undergraduates doing graduation research in the Medical Laboratory Science major have also joined as members.
Satoshi Yasuda, Professor
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The Endowed Department of Preemptive Cardiovascular Medicine conducts research toward elucidating the pathophysiology of heart failure and arrhythmia, leading to advanced diagnostic methods and therapeutic devices. It collects clinical data from collaborating multicenter research sites in a form that does not identify individuals, and performs artificial intelligence (AI) analysis using methods such as machine learning and deep learning. In recent years, attention has focused on atrial fibrillation as a factor that worsens heart failure, on the management of life-threatening arrhythmias associated with sudden death, and on the link between heart failure and arrhythmia. It is an endowed department established in April 2022.
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