Laboratories

Molecular Pathogenesis

Stem Cell Biology

Investigation of molecular mechanism involved in the CNS disorders caused by damaged neural stem/precursor cells and identification of their therapeutic targets.

	Professor	Toru Kondo, Ph.D. tkondo[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Lecturer		Youlee Son
Assistant Professor		Naoto Oikawa

Signaling in Cancer and Immunology

Sensing mechanisms and signaling pathways for the activaton of innate immunity

	Professor	Akinori Takaoka, M.D., Ph.D. takaoka[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor		Seichi Sato
Assistant Professor		Hiraku Suzuki

Molecular Psychoimmunology

Molecular mechanism of chronic inflammation induced by T cell-medaited cytokines and neural signaling.

	Professor	Masaaki Murakami, V.M.D., Ph.D. murakami[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor		Shintaro Hojyo Shigeru Hashimoto
Project Lecturer		Shinpei Kubota JingJing Jiang Hiroki Tanaka Yuta Shinohara
Project Assistant Professor		Rieko Nishi Haruka Handa Kaoru Murakami

Hepatitis Virology

Study to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of HBV and HCV infection and pathogenicity.

	Professor	Kohji Moriishi, V.M.D., Ph.D. kohjim[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp

Pathophysiology

Immunobiology

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Differentiation of immune cells

	Professor	Ken-ichiro Seino, M.D., Ph.D. seino[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor		Haruka Wada
Assistant Professor		Akihiro Mori

Genome Biology

Study on 3D genome organization and related diseases

	Professor	Ken-ich Noma, Ph.D. noma[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor		Shinya Ohta Hideki Tanizawa
Project Assistant Professor		Claire Yik-Lok Chung

Developmental Physiology

Cellular polarity and mechanics in normal and diseased contexts

	Professor	Fumio MOTEGI, Ph.D. motegi[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Lecturer		Kenji Kimura Yukako Nishimura
Project Assistant Professor		Kazunori Yamamoto

Microbial Oncology

Molecular mechanism underlying Helicobacter pylori-mediated gastric carcinogenesis

	Associate Professor	Naoko Kamiya, Ph.D. naokokam[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp

Disease Control

Molecular Interaction

Physiological significance of asymmetry of membrane phospholipids

Biomedical Oncology

Elucidating the carcinogenic mechanisms and generating anti-cancer drug leads

	Professor	Masahiro Sonoshita, Ph.D. msonoshita[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Assistant Professor		Takako Ohshio Ryodai Yamamura

Biological Molecular Mechanisms

Molecular mechanisms of autophagy and liquid-liquid phase separation involved in various life phenomena

	Professor	Noda Nobuo, Ph.D. nn[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor		Yuko Fujioka
Project Lecturer		Takuma Tsuji
Assistant Professor		Daisuke Noshiro
Project Assistant Professor		Yuta Ogasawara Eigo Takeda

Attached Facility

Laboratory of Animal Experiment

Generation of Animal Models for Cancer, Immune, and Infectious Diseases.

Center of infection-associated cancer

Research of cancer caused by infection.

	Professor	Masahiro Sonoshita, Ph.D. msonoshita[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
	Project Professor	Masanori Hatakeyama, M.D., Ph.D. masahata[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Professor		Kohji Moriishi, V.M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor		Naoko Kamiya Kumiko Yoshimatsu

Frontier Research Unit

Molecular Cell Biology

Understanding the cell fate determination by post-translational modifications and inter-organelle communications, and the interactions between immune and nervous systems

	Associate Professor	Tomohiko Okazaki, Ph.D. okazaki[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Assistant Professor		Nao Morimoto

Endowed Department

Department of Synbiotics

Clarification of mechanism for the regulation of biological function by probiotics

	Project Professor	Tadaaki Miyazaki, Ph.D. miyazaki[at]igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Project Professor		Kouichi Sato
Project Assistant Professor		Kazunobu Baba