AY2025 List of Academic Supervisors
P1- Master’s Program
P9- Professional Degree Course, School of Public Health(Students receive Master of Public Health upon completion)

Master’s Program in Health Sciences and Nursing(1) Students will be instructed by a faculty member (a professor or an associate professor) of the Department
into which they are accepted.
(2) The names and research areas of possible supervisors each major field of study are shown below. Faculty
members due to retire at the end of this academic year may not be available to teach.
Faculty

Department

Research Fields

Nursing
Administration

Professor

Mari Ikeda(concurrent)

Advanced ClinicalNursing

Professor

Mari Ikeda(concurrent)

GerontologicalHome Care andLong-term Care
Nursing (GHLN)

Professor

NorikoGerontological nursing (homecare, longYamamoto-Mitani term care), quality assurance of long-term

Associate
Professor

Ayumi Igarashi

Professor

NorikoYamamoto-Mitani
End-of-life care of older persons, practice(concurrent)

Palliative Care
Nursing
Community HealthNursing/Public
Health Nursing
Public HealthNursing

Family Nursing

Nursing administration, Nursing Quality
Assessment and Policy Evaluation
Function and roles of nursing, expertise innursing skills

care/homecare, dementia-friendly
community, community care systemdevelopment

based nursing knowledge development

Associate
Professor

Ayumi Igarashi(concurrent)

Associate
Professor

Community health nursing/Public health
Kyoko Yoshioka- nursing, community healthcare system
Maeda
development, policy/program development,
tacit knowledge of public health nurses

Professor

Mari Ikeda

Associate
Professor

Yuki Miyamoto

Professor

Daisuke Nishi(concurrent)

Family nursing /child nursing in general,development of family assessment andfamily nursing-style approach, mental healthduring family formation, family QOL,
transitional support for patients withchildhood-onset chronic diseases,
prevention of abuse, and gender andnursing
Psychiatric nursing, home-visit nursing,social rehabilitation, recovery, co-production

Affiliation(Department)
Preventive andAdministrative
NursingPreventive andAdministrative
Nursing
Clinical Nursing

Clinical Nursing

Preventive andAdministrative
NursingPreventive andAdministrative
Nursing

Clinical Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing
GerontologicalNursing

Professor

Wound CareManagement

Professor

Midwifery and
Women's Health
Radiation Health
Sciences

Professor

Mental health epidemiology, perinatal
School of Public
mental health, traumatic stress, resilience
HealthGerontological nursing, nursing skills
Gojiro Nakagami
specific to the older population (malnutrition,
deglutition disorders, incontinence), wound Clinical Nursing
Gojiro Nakagami
care management (pressure ulcer, lower(concurrent)
extremity ulcer)
Life and health during pregnancy and thepuerperium, improvement of care at delivery
Megumi Haruna
based on physiological rationale, healthissues concerning women’s life cycles

Clinical Nursing

No applications accepted this year.

As of 2024 May
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Master’s Program in School of International Health
The faculty members who can serve as your advisor and their research areas are shown below. Faculty members
due to retire at the end of this fiscal year may not accept students.
The contents of the list may be updated. Please check the link below for the latest version.
https://www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/daigakuin/apply/appguidemain.html(Names of the department are shown in bold characters)
Community and Global Health (in International Social Medicine)[Under the process of selection]
Global Health Policy (in International Social Medicine)Prof. Masahiro Hashizume: Climate change and health, environmental epidemiology, planetary healthDr. Chris Fook Sheng Ng: (Associate Professor): Environmental statistics and data science, air quality and health, population
exposure-response modeling and risk assessment
Human Genetics (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Akihiro Fujimoto: Human genetics, population genetics, cancer genomics, human evolution
Dr. Motoko Unoki (Associate Professor): Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry: Molecular pathogenesis of diseases with
epigenetic changes, cross-disciplinary research to elucidate the mechanisms between epigenetics and DNA repair system
Developmental Medical Sciences (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Moi Meng Ling: Tropical and emerging virus, immunology, epidemiology, field research, vaccine, diagnostics and therapeutics
development
Dr. Satoshi Taniguchi (Associate Professor): Research on diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of emerging and reemerging
infectious diseases. Development of animal models for infectious diseases
Human Ecology (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Masahiro Umezaki: The roles of gut microbiota in nutritional adaptation and the evolution of human populations, mitigation of
the health impacts of aging and depopulation at community/national scales, behavioral and nutritional adaptation of humanpopulations in Asia and Oceania, medical anthropology
Dr. Shoko Konishi (Associate Professor): Health impact assessment of exposure to heavy metals, air pollution, unhealthy urban
structures, and ecosystem degradation; Biological and behavioral explanations of low fertility and fecundity during the postdemographic transition period
Biomedical Chemistry (in International Biomedical Science)Prof. Tomoyoshi Nozaki: Biochemistry, molecular biology, molecular parasitology: metabolic control mechanisms, parasitic
phenomena, analysis of infection and adaptation, design and development of antiinfective drugs
Dr. Yoh-ichi Watanabe (Associate Professor): Analysis and application of RNA and RNA-binding proteins, analysis and applicationof extremophiles
Global Environmental Health (in International Social Medicine)
Dr.Yoonhee Kim (Associate Professor): Environmental health, population health, health risk assessment of climate change, climate
variability, and air pollution, climate informed infectious disease prediction modeling, seasonality of suicide
International Cooperation for Medical Education (International Cooperation for Medical Education)
Prod. Masahiro Umezaki (Chief of the School of International Health)Dr. Hirotaka Onishi (Lecturer): Medical education, health professional education, learner assessment, programme evaluation,clinical education, clinical reasoning, international cooperation in health professional education2

Academic Year 2025

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Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Master’s Program of Medical Science
List of Research Supervisors (as of May, 2024)

Molecular Cell Biology
Faculty

Major Field of Study
Professor
Cell Biology

e-mail: yokada@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-0959
Professor

Structural Biology

Shigeo Okabee-mail: okabe@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-1928
Professor

Advanced Structural
Studies

Radostin Danev

e-mail: rado@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3413
Professor

Molecular Biology

Affiliation (Department)

Physical biology of the cell, Livecell imaging

Cell Biology and Anatomy

Cell biology of epithelium using
cryo-electron tomography

Cell Biology and Anatomy

Molecular mechanisms for theformation and maintenance ofcentral neural networks

Cell Biology and Anatomy

Structural biology of moleculesand cells by cryo-electron
microscopy

Advanced Structural Studies

Molecular mechanisms andphysiological roles of autophagy

Biochemistry and Molecular
Biologylarge-scale genomics,
statistical genetics,
bioinformatics

Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology

Masahide Kikkawa

e-mail: mkikkawa@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3338
Professor

Cellular Neurobiology

Research Fields

Yasushi Okada

Noboru Mizushima

e-mail: nmizu@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3440

Physiological Chemistry
and Metabolism
Professor
Genome Informatics

Yukinori Okada

e-mail: yokada@sg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-1860

Molecular Biomedicine for
Pathogenesis

Functional Biology
Faculty

Major Field of Study
Professor
Integrative Physiology

Research Fields

Kenichi Ohkie-mail: kohki@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel:03-5841-3459
Professor

Cellular and Molecular
Physiology

Masanori Matsuzaki

e-mail: mazkim@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation (Department)

Neural circuits and information
processing in visual cortex, twophoton calcium imaging

Physiology

Prefrontal cortex, decision
making, motor learning, BMI

Physiology

Principles of neuronal functions,cell physiology, pharmacology,
chemical biology

Pharmacology

tel:03-5841-3467

Neurophysiology

Professor
Cellular and Molecular
Pharmacology

tel: 03-5841-3414
Professor

Systems Pharmacology

Kenzo Hirose

e-mail: kenzoh@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Hiroki R. Ueda

Systems and synthetic biology of
Pharmacology
sleep-wake cycles

e-mail: uedah-tky@umin.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3415

Structural Physiology

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Faculty

Major Field of Study
Professor

Research Fields

Affiliation (Department)

Tetsuo Ushiku

e-mail: usikut-tky@umin.ac.jp

Gastrointestinal pathology,
diagnostic pathology

Pathology

Clinical Pharmacology, ClinicalPharmacokinetics, Lifestylerelated Diseases andTransporters

Pharmaceutical

tel:03-5841-3344
Professor
Tappei Takada
Pathology and Diagnostic
e-mail: tappei-tky@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Pathology
tel:03-3815-5411 （ex.30750）
Associate Professor

Daizo Koinuma
e-mail:koinuma@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Research on signal transduction
mechanism. Transcriptome
Pathology
analysis.

tel:03-5841-3359
Professor

Yasuhiro Yamada

Dissecting epigenetic regulationin mammalian development and Pathology
diseasesemail:yyamada@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel:03-5841-3585
Molecular Pathology
Associate Professor

Yosuke Yamada

email:yoyamada@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Thymic pathology, Experimental
pathology

Pathology

Pathogenicity of respiratory
viruses

Microbiology

Host-virus interaction inparamyxovirus infection

Microbiology

Molecular mechanism ofpathogenesis in hepatitis virus
infection

Microbiology

Research on pathogenesis of
autoimmune diseases andosteoimmunology

Immunology

tel:03-5841-3411
Professor

Makoto Takeda

email:mtakeda@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Microbiology

tel:03-5841-3408
Associate Professor

Hiroshi Kato

email:hirokato@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel:03-5841-3404
Professor
Infection Control andPrevention

Takeya Tsutsumi

email:takeyatsutsumi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel:03-3815-5411（ex.35335）

Immunology

Professor

Hiroshi Takayanagi

e-mail: takayana@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3375
Professor
Animal Resources

Molecular mechanisms
underlying neuronal
CDBIM – Animal Resources
development,Generation ofmutant marmosets as model
animals with psychiatric disorder.

Atsu Aibae-mail: aiba@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3638

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Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Faculty

Major Field of Study
Associate Professor
Molecular Radiology

Research Fields

Affiliation (Department)

Noriko Hosoya

e-mail: nhosoya@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Research on cancer treatment
targeting DNA repair

CDBIM – Molecular Radiology

Mechanobiology, biomechanics,
circulatory physiology

Biomedical Engineering

tei: 03-5841-3505
Associate Professor

System Physiology

Kimiko Yamamoto

e-mail: kyamamoto@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3564

Biosystem Construction andControl
Professor

Chemical biology (fluorescence-,
sensitizer-, and luminescenceGraduate School ofbased probes)
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Molecular imaging, In vivo tumor
imaging and therapy

Yasuteru Uranoe-mail: uranokun@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3601
Chemical Biology andMolecular Imaging

Associate Professor

Ryosuke Kojima

Synthetic biology (engineering
cells and extracellular vesicles),Chemical Biology (fluorescenceprobes), protein engineering,cancer imaging and therapy

e-mail: kojima@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel:03-5841-3568

Associate Professor
Biomaterials and Medical
devices

Kanako Harada

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical devices, Surgical
CDBIM – Biomedical devices
robots, Surgical skill assessment

e-mail: kanakoharada@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-6289

Neuroscience
Professor
Neuropathology

Takeshi Iwatsubo

Neuropathological and molecularpathological analysis of
Basic Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease andParkinson’s diseasee-mail: iwatsubo@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3541
Professor

Neurochemistry

Haruhiko Bito

Molecular mechanisms
underlying long-term memorystorage and plasticity, signaltransduction of neurons

e-mail: hbito@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3559
Associate Professor

Child Neuropsychiatry

Basic Neuroscience

Yukiko Kano
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,Integrative Medical Neuroscience
Developmental disorders

e-mail: kano-tky@umin.ac.jp
tel: 03-5800-8664

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Social Medicine
Faculty

Major Field of Study
Professor

Research Fields

Shumpei Ishikawa

e-mail: ishum-prm@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Preventive Medicine

Affiliation (Department)

Cancer genomics,
bioinformatics
Occupational, Environmental andPreventive Medicine

tel: 03-5841-3434
Associate Professor
Hiroto Katohe-mail: hkat-prm@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Cancer immunogenomics

tel: 03-5841-3434
Professor
Makoto Murakami
e-mail: makmurak@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-1431

Microenvironmental andMetabolic Health Sciences Associate Professor

Mechanisms underlying
reproductive
toxicity/carcinogenesis byenvironmental chemical

Seiichro Osako

e-mail:ohsako@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-1432
Professor
Kazuhiko Ohe
e-mail:ohe-office@adm.h.u-toyko.ac.jp

CDBIM – Microenvironmental andMetabolic Health Sciences

Medical bigdata analysis, Medical
Department of Biomedical
AI, Next-generation EHR, Clinical
Informatics
genome databasetel: 03-5841-5240
Medical Informatics

Biology of lipid metabolism inhealth science

Associate Professor
Takeshi Imai
e-mail:imai@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-3454
Associate Professor
Kayo Waki
e-mail:kwaki-tky@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5800-9129

Medical AI, Medical bigdata
analysis, Next-generation EHR,
Standardization

CDBIM – Biomedical Informatics

Mobile health, telemedicine,clinical study, clinicalepidemiology

Department of Biomedical
Informatics

Other Major Field
Faculty

Major Field of Study
Professor

Research Fields

Yuichi Tei/
Ung-il Chung

Skeletal biology and regenerative
Graduate School of Engineering
medicine, biomaterials sciencee-mail: tei@tetrapod.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
CDBIM: Center for Diseasetel: 03-5841-8843
Biology and Integrative
Medicine
Associate Professor
Hironori Hojoe-mail: hojo@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Skeletal biology and regenerative
CDBIM – Clinical Biotechnology
medicine

tel: 03-5841-1427
Professor
Biomaterials and Medical
devices

Discipline

Taichi Ito

Biomaterials, Hydrogels,
Particles, Tissue engineering,
Drug delivery

e-mail: itotaichi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tel: 03-5841-1425

CDBIM: Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine
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Graduate School of Engineering

Cooperative Departments (Institute of Medical Science, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences)
Major Field of Study

Faculty

Research Fields
Gene and cell therapy forneuromuscular disorders
Molecular biology of aging,
Replication of non-genomic
codes

Professor

Takashi Okada

Professor

Makoto Nakanishi

Associate Professor

Naoki Horikoshi

Epigenetics, Mechanism ofHigher-Order Chromatin
Structure

Professor

Katsuhiko Shirohige

Genome Structure and Function

Associate Professor

Teruhiro Okuyama

Social neuroscience, Autism
spectrum disorder (ASD)

Associate Professor

Ryuichiro Nakato

Data-driven NGS analysis,
detailed analysis of 3D structural IQB－Computational Genomics
data, Single-cell analysis

Professor

Yoichi Furukawa

Elucidation of cancer
development and progression
mechanisms, genome analysis

Professor

Yuji Yamanashi

Intracellular signal transduction
mechanism and molecular
IMSUT – Genetics
pathogenesis of disease causedby its collapse

Professor

Tomoki Todo

Innovative cancer therapy
development using geneticallyengineered viruses

IMSUT – The Advanced ClinicalResearch Center

Professor

Tatsuhiro Shibata

Genomic understanding of
human disease

IMSUT-The Human Genome
CenterProfessor

Mutsuhiro Takekawa

Regulatory mechanisms ofcellular signaling pathways andtheir abnormalities in diseases

IMSUT－Cell Signaling &Molecular Medicine

Professor

Tomoji Mashimo

Genome editing, humanizedanimals, and gene therapy

Professor

Emi Nishimura

Stem cell aging study for tissue
regeneration

IMSUT－Aging and Regeneration

Professor

Satoshi Yamazaki

Application of stem cell
regulation research to celltherapy and gene therapy

IMSUT－Cell Regulation

Associate Professor

Akane Yamauchi

Cellular signal transduction
mechanism and its dysregulation IMSUT－Genetics
in diseases

Associate Professor

Taeko Kobayashi

Adult neural stem cells and theirquiescence regulation by
IMSUT－Protein Metabolism
proteostasis

Professor

Hideki Taniguchi

Regenerative medicine andtransplantation surgery

Molecular Biology

Structural Biology

Affiliation (Department)
IMSUT – Molecular and Medical
Genetics
IMSUT – Cancer Cell Biology

IQB－Chromatin Structure andFunction
IQB – Laboratory of
Genome Structure and Function
IQB – Research Center for
Cellular Dynamics

Cellular Neurobiology

Pathology and Diagnostic
Pathology

Molecular Pathology

Surgical pathology

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IMSUT – The Advanced ClinicalResearch Center

IMSUT－Laboratory Animal
Research Center

IMSUT – Regenerative Medicine

Professor

Tetsuro Matano

Elucidation of AIDS pathogenesis IMSUT – AIDS Vaccine
and vaccine development
Development

Associate Professor

Takeshi Ichinohe

Regulation of immune responses IMSUT－International Research
to influenza virus infection
Center for Infectious Diseases

Professor

Yasushi Kawaguchi

Research on mechanisms
involved in the development of
herpesviral pathogenicity

IMSUT – Molecular Virology

Professor

Kei Sato

Systems virology andexperimental virology

IMSUT – Systems Virology

Professor

Kensuke Miyake

Pathogen recognition
mechanisms in natural immunity, IMSUT – Infectious Genetics
Toll-like receptors

Professor

Atsushi Iwama

Epigenetics of hematopoietic
stem cells and hematopoietic
malignancies

IMSUT –Division of Stem Cell andMolecular Medicine

Professor

Ken Ishii

Basic and clinical studies ofvaccine

IMSUT – Vaccine Science

Professor

Reiko Shinkura

Interaction of mucosal IgA andgut microbiota, Mechanism of
immunoglobulin diversification

IQB – Immunology and Infection
Control

Professor

Taku Okazaki

Molecular and cellular biology of
autoimmunity and cancer
IQB – Molecular Immunology
immunity

Professor

Cevayir Coban

Host-pathogen interactions

Associate Professor

Tokiko Nagamura-Inoue

Immunology and regenerative
IMSUT – Department of Cell
medicine of cord blood and cordProcessing and Transfusion
derived cells

Associate Professor

Il-mi Okazaki

Molecular and cellular biology of
autoimmunity and cancer
IQB – Molecular Immunology
immunity

Microbiology

Infection Control andPrevention

Immunology

Neurochemistry
IMSUT: The Institute of Medical Science

IQB: Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

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IMSUT – Division of Malaria
Immunology

Professional Degree Course, School of Public Health（Students receive Master of Public Health upon completion）
Major Field of Study

Faculty

Research Fields

Biostatistics

Professor

Yutaka Matsuyama

Biostatistics, Design and analysis of medical study, andMethodology of clinical trials

Epidemiology andPreventive Health
Science

Professor

Yutaka Matsuyama

Epidemiology, Design and analysis of epidemiologic study, andTheoretical epidemiology

Associate
Professor

Koji OBA

Epidemiology, design and analysis of epidemiologic study, andMeta-analysis

Social andPreventive
Epidemiology
Clinical
Epidemiology and
Health Economics

HealthCommunication

Professor

Kentaro Murakami Nutritional epidemiology, behavioral nutrition, public health nutrition

Professor

Hideo
Yasunaga

Clinical epidemiology, designing clinical research, large healthcare
database, causal inference, health economics, health technology
assessment

Associate
Professor

Hiroki Matsui

Clinical epidemiology, designing clinical research, large healthcare
database, causal inference, health economics, machine learning

Professor

Takahiro Kiuchi

Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Okuhara

Health Communication, medical information network
Health Communication, behavior change

Mental HealthProfessor

Daisuke Nishi

Mental health epidemiology, perinatal mental health, traumaticstress, resilience

Health and Social
Behavior

Professor

Hideki
Hashimoto

Health sociology, health education and communication, social
determinants of healthProfessor

Eisuke Nakazawa

Associate Professor

Yoshiyuki
Takimoto

Biomedical Ethics, Clinical Ethics, Clinical Ethics Consultation,
Decision-making Process Model

Professor

Takahiro Higashi

Health services research, health policy and management, quality ofcare, survey research

Associate Professor

Haruhiko Inada

Epidemiology, injury prevention, health policy, program evaluation

Associate Professor

Kayo Waki

m-Health,self management of disease using ICT, Health datemanagement

Associate Professor

Takeshi Imai

Medical AI, Medical bigdata analysis, Standardization

Professor

Yohsuke Makino

Forensic radiology, Forensic pathology

Associate Professor

Suguru Torimitsu

Forensic antropology, Forensic pathology

Associate Professor

Yoonhee Kim

Biomedical Ethics

Public Health/
Health Policy

Biomedical
Informatics

Public health ethics, research ethics, biomedical ethics,
neuroethics, philosophy of science

Forensic Medicine

GlobalEnvironmental
HealthHuman Resource
development for
HealthProfessor
Lecturer

Environmental epidemiology, health risk assessment of climatechange and variability and/or air pollution

Hideki Hashimoto Medical education, health professional education, learner(Department chair) assessment, programme evaluation, clinical education, clinicalreasoning, international cooperation in health professional
Hirotaka Onishi education

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