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Fanyan Wei, Professor
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The Modomics Medicine lab centers its research on "modomics," the comprehensive study of the chemical modifications that occur on molecules in the body. Under external stress or internal factors such as disease and aging, various molecules undergo chemical modification, gain new functions, and affect the activity of cells and organs. The lab focuses on RNA modifications in particular, studying their relationship to physiological functions such as metabolism, immunity, and aging, as well as to human diseases. The lab's website also introduces the Modomics Pharmaceutical Sciences group of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Kazuhiko Igarashi, Professor
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The Division of Biochemistry studies how gene expression is regulated and how cell differentiation and cell responses are determined. Focusing on transcription factors and chromatin structure regulators, which act as gene switches, the lab investigates hematopoietic stem cell differentiation, immune cell responses, and the mechanisms of cancer development. Research combines biochemical and molecular biology techniques with mass spectrometry, next-generation sequencing, and bioinformatics. The lab provides education and research supervision in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Health Sciences at the undergraduate level, and in the Doctoral Program in Medicine and the Master's Program in Medical Science at the graduate level.
Takahiro Arima, Professor
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The lab of Professor Takahiro Arima in the Division of Informative Genetics studies the development and function of the placenta, which is essential for fetal survival. This lab was the first in the world to succeed in establishing human trophoblast stem (TS) cells. Using these cells, the lab investigates the mechanisms of placental development and differentiation, and how diseases related to placental abnormalities arise. Its research themes also include mammalian evolution, genomic imprinting, and the safety of assisted reproductive technology.
Eikan Mishima, Professor
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The Division of Environmental Medicine is a lab that investigates, from molecules to whole organisms, how the environment affects human health and disease. Its main keywords are ferroptosis, a form of cell death, redox regulation, oxidative stress, and drug discovery applications. Ferroptosis is a cell death that arises from the dual nature of iron, oxygen, and lipids. In cancer, inducing it is expected to serve as a treatment strategy, while in conditions such as organ injury, suppressing it may lead to treatment. This long-established division originated from the Department of Hygiene at Tohoku University, and Professor Eikan Mishima joined it in April 2026.
Kenichiro Tsutsui, Professor
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The Neural Systems Lab aims to elucidate the higher functions of the brain, and for that purpose places importance on understanding the brain's functional architecture. People think, make judgments, and act based on stimuli from the outside and on information they have stored in memory. The lab emphasizes understanding functional localization, the neural structures that support functions, how information is represented, and the steps of information processing as one connected whole. At the graduate level, the lab corresponds to the Neural Systems group in the Department of Brain Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences.
Koichi Chida, Professor
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The Radiological Examination Science Lab studies the measurement and evaluation of radiation exposure from radiological examinations and protection against it, as well as quality control and optimization of radiological examination equipment. The lab works on radiation exposure of patients and medical staff, medical radiation exposure of children, and the development of new methods for measuring and evaluating radiation dose. The lab also provides education in diagnostic radiological technology and medical physics, and trains researchers with problem-solving skills. The lab is a division within the graduate Department of Health Sciences, and its faculty are also affiliated with the Disaster Radiation Medicine division of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science.
Masayuki Yamamoto, Professor
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The Molecular Medical Biochemistry Lab, as the Division of Molecular Medical Biochemistry in the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, studies how living organisms protect themselves from oxidative stress. On the theme of the molecular basis of regulation of the KEAP1-NRF2-sMAF system, the lab held a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society. The lab has also published a paper on an experiment in which Nrf2-knockout mice stayed in space and returned alive, and it works on space medicine research as well.
Atsushi Masamune, Professor
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The lab studies stress-related diseases as a field of behavioral medicine, which investigates the relationship between disease and behavior or psychology. Its distinctive feature is that it investigates stress from the perspective of the psychosomatic correlation, in which the mind and body influence each other. A representative disease of the psychosomatic correlation is irritable bowel syndrome, which is considered one of the diseases in which the interaction between the brain and the gut is disrupted. The lab also works on stress-related psychological trauma, maternal separation, and eating disorders.
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.
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