2025 ＦＡＣＵＬＴＹ ＆ ＦＩＥＬＤＳ ＯＦ ＲＥＳＥＡＲＣＨGRADUATE SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
Ｄｅｐａｒｔｍｅｎｔ ｏｆ Ｐｈａｒｍａｃｅｕｔｉｃａｌ Ｓｃｉｅｎｃｅｓ
Ｄｅｐａｒｔｍｅｎｔ ｏｆ Ｐｈａｒｍａｃｙ
Faculty

Description of Research Field

Ｇｒａｄｕａｔｅ Ｓｃｈｏｏｌ ｏｆ Ｐｈａｒｍａｃｅｕｔｉｃａｌ Ｓｃｉｅｎｃｅｓ
Organic Chemistry, Structural Organic Chemistry,Prof.
Computational Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry
OHWADA, Tomohiko
Assoc.Prof.
OTANI, Yuko

Organic Chemistry, Peptide Chemistry of Unnatural Amino Acids, Computational Peptide
ChemistryProf.
INOUE, Masayuki

Organic Chemistry, Natural Product Synthesis,
Bioorganic Chemistry

Assoc.Prof.
ITOH, Hiroaki

Organic Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
Bioorganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology

Assoc.Prof.
KANAI, Motomu

Organic Synthesis, Catalysis, Artificial Catalysis in Cells

Assoc.Prof.
KAWASHIMA, Shigehiro

Chemical Biology, Artificial Catalysis in Cells, Chromosome Biology, Epigenome

Prof.
ABE, Ikuro

Natural Products Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Bioorganic Chemistry, Synthetic Biology

Assoc.Prof.
MORI, Takahiro

Natural Products Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Structural biology, Enzyme EngineeringProf.
UCHIYAMA, Masanobu
Project Assoc. Prof.
NAKAJIMA, Masaya
Lec.
TORIUMI, Naoyuki

Organic Chemistry, Elements Chemistry,
Theoretical Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry

Prof.
URANO, Yasuteru

Chemical Biology, Development of Photo-functional Probes, In Vivo Fluorescent TumorImaging

Assoc.Prof.
TSUNODA, Makoto

Bio-analytical Chemistry, Separation Science, Micro Total Analysis System

Prof.
TAKEUCHI, KohProf.
SHIMIZU, Toshiyuki

Structural Biology, NMR, Analysis and manuplation of function-related dynamics

Assoc.Prof.
OHTO, Umeharu

Structural biology, Regulation mechanism of receptor activationProf.
AOKI, Junken

Lipid Biology, Analytical chemistry of lipids, Pathophysiological roles of lysophospholipid
mediators, Elucidation of biological significance of phospholipid fatty acid diversity

Assoc.Prof.
KONO, nozomu

Lipid Biology, Homeostatic regulation of membrane lipids

Prof.
KITAGAWA, Daiju

Cell Biology, Cell Genetics, Cell Division, non-coding RNA

Lec.

Molecular genetics of nutrient responses

Transition Metal Chemistry, Photochemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Synthetic Organic
Chemistry, Natural Product Chemistry

Name of Laboratory

Organic andMedicinal Chemistry

Synthetic Natural
Products Chemistry

Synthetic
Organic Chemistry

NaturalProduct Chemistry

Advanced Elements
Chemistry

Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Development of Functional Molecules
Chemistry and Biology
Bio-Analytical
Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

Structural biology, protein crystallography

FUKUYAMA, Masamitsu

Project Lec.
HATA, Shoji

Cell Biology, Cell Genetics, Cell Division, Cytoskeleton

Prof.
GOTOH, Yukiko
Assoc.Prof.
KAWAGUCHI,Daichi
Project Assoc. Prof.
OISHI, Koji

Molecular and cellular biology, neural development, stem cell, signal transduction

Prof.
MIURA, Masayuki

Physiological roles of programmed cell death,
Establishment of cell society, Metabolic regulation of growth, aging and regeneration

Lec.
NAKAJIMA,Yuichiro

Developmental cell biology, Tissue homeostasis, Environmental responses, Cell plasticity

Assoc.Prof.
NAGURO, Isao

Cell biology, Cellular sensing and response to physicochemical stress
The laboratory of Cell Signaling will not be looking for students this time.

Molecular neurobiology, Neural development, Neurodevelopmental disorder, Stem cellProtein
Structural Biology

Health Chemistry

PhysiologicalChemistry

Cell Biology

Neural development, neuroanatomy, reprogramming

Genetics

Cell SignalingFaculty

Description of Research Field

Ｇｒａｄｕａｔｅ Ｓｃｈｏｏｌ ｏｆ Ｐｈａｒｍａｃｅｕｔｉｃａｌ Ｓｃｉｅｎｃｅｓ
Intracellular protein degradation, Proteostasis
Prof.
MURATA, Shigeo
Intracellular protein degradation, Proteostasis, TranscriptionLec.
HAMAZAKI, Jun
Immunological tolerance and homeostasis, immune regulation, inflammation
Prof.
HORI, Shohei
Immunology, Immunological memory, immunological homeostasis, host defense system

Name of Laboratory

Protein Metabolism

Immunology andMicrobiology

Assoc.Prof.
SETOGUCHI, Ruka
Ｉｎｓｔｉｔｕｔｅ ｆor Quantitative Biosciences
Immunology, Mucosal immunity, Immunoglobulin gene diversification, Gut microbiota
Prof.
Applied Immunology
SHINKURA, Reiko
Male germ cell differentiation, Chromatin dynamics in spermatogenesis, Transgenerational Pathology andProf.
epigenetic inheritance, Sperm quality control
Development
OAKADA, Yuki
Synthetic biology, Bioengineering, RNA, RNA-Protein complexes, iPS cells, CellProf.
RNP Synthetic Biology
Regulation, Gene & cell therapy, Regenrative medicine
SAITO, Hirohide
Epigenetic regulation of neural cells
MolecularAssoc.Prof.
Neurobiology
KISHI, Yusuke
Ｉｎｓｔｉｔｕｔｅ ｏｆ Ｍｅｄｉｃａｌ Ｓｃｉｅｎｃｅ
Regulation of cellular functions by the ubiquitin code
Prof.
SAEKI, Yasushi
Stress adapation mechanisms by liquid-liquid phase separation
Proteostatic regulation of neural stem cells
Assoc.Prof.
KOBAYASHI, Taeko
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Functional analysis of noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells, Development of novel
technologies for nucleic acid medicines, Molecular mechanism of stress responses, DNAProf.
damage response, Regulation of gene expression through RNA degradation code,AKIMITSU, Nobuyoshi
Developmnet of novel live imaging methods by using radioisotopes

Protein Dynamics

Laboratory of Nucleic
acids research

Ｇｒａｄｕａｔｅ Ｓｃｈｏｏｌ ｏｆ Ｐｈａｒｍａｃｅｕｔｉｃａｌ Ｓｃｉｅｎｃｅｓ
Pharmacokinetics, Functional analysis and pharmacogenomics of drug transporters, Kinetic
Prof.
analysis of the drug interactions, Drug delivery to the brain
KUSUHARA, Hiroyuki
Molecular
Pharmacokinetics
Development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for pediatric liver diseases,
Assoc.Prof.
HAYASHI,Hisamitsu
Prof.
IKEGAYA, Yuji

Hepatology, Clinical pharmacology
Brain circuitology, Systems pharmacology, Artificial intelligence

Assoc.Prof.
NAKASHIMA, Ai

Molecular neurobiology, Developmental neurobiology

ChemicalPharmacology

Prof.
TOMITA, Taisuke

Pathobiochemical analysis of Alzheimer and other neurological diseases, Therapeutic
approaches by modulation of proteases and vesicular trafficking, glial cell-targeted drug
discovery
Pathobiochemical and therapeutical analysis for amyloid in Alzheimer and other

Neuropathology
and Neuroscience

Assoc.Prof.
HORI, Yukiko

neurodegenerative disease

Drug Lifetime Management (Drug Fostering and Evolution), Drug Informatics, Clinical
Project Assoc. Prof.
Pharmacy, Risk Management in Community Pharmacy
SATO, Hiroki
Ｆａｃｕｌｔｙ ｏｆ Ｍｅｄｉｃｉｎｅ
Ｕｎｉｖｅｒｓｉｔｙ Ｈｏｓｐｉｔａｌ （Ｄｅｐａｒｔｍｅｎｔ ｏｆ Ｐｈａｒｍａｃｙ ＆ Ｃｌｉｎｉｃａｌ Ｒｅｓｅａｒｃｈ Ｓｕｐｐｏｒｔ Ｃｅｎｔｅｒ）
Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacokinetics,
Prof.
Lifestyle-related Diseases and Transporters
TAKADA, Tappei
Lec.
YAMANASHI, Yoshihide

Analysis of lipid behaviors in the body, Functional analysis of lipid transporters, ClinicalPharmacokinetics

Drug LifetimeManagement

Department ofClinicalPharmacokinetics

Ｉｎｓｔｉｔｕｔｅ ｏｆ Ｍｅｄｉｃａｌ Ｓｃｉｅｎｃｅ
Department of StemProf.
Stem Cell Biology, Ageing and Cancer Biology, Toxicologic pathology, Stem Cell Targeted
Cell Regulation andDrug Discovery
NISHIMURA, Emi
Drug Discovery
Ｇｒａｄｕａｔｅ Ｓｃｈｏｏｌ ｏｆ Ｍｅｄｉｃine
Neuropathology (Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson'sProf.
Neuropathology
The laboratoryof Neuropathology will not be looking for students this time.
Disease),Clinical Neurology
IWATSUBO, Takeshi
Ｇｒａｄｕａｔｅ Ｓｃｈｏｏｌ ｏｆ Ｐｈａｒｍａｃｅｕｔｉｃａｌ Ｓｃｉｅｎｃｅｓ
Pharmaceutical regulation, pharmaceutical R&D, health economics,Assoc.Prof.
pharmacoepidemiology, clinical evaluation
ONO, ShunsukeProf.
URANO, Yasuteru

PharmaceuticalRegulatory Science

Health Economics andPharmacoeconomics,
Biostatistics
The laboratory ofHealth
Healtheconomics,
Economics
and Outcomes Research will not be looking forstudentsResearch
this time.
Outcomes

As of April, 2024