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.
E-mail tkondo*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.
E-mail: takaoka*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.
E-mail:murakami*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor Shintaro Hojyo
Associate Professor Shigeru Hashimoto
Project Lecturer Shinpei Kubota
Project Lecturer JingJing Jiang
Project Lecturer Hiroki Tanaka
Project Lecturer Yuta Shinohara
Hepatitis Virology

Study to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of HBV and HCV infection and
pathogenicity.
Professor Kohji Moriishi, V.M.D., Ph.D.
E-mail:kohjim*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Pathophysiology
Immunobiology

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Differentiation of immune
cells
Professor Ken-ichiro Seino, M.D., Ph.D.
E-mail: seino*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.
E-mail: noma*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor Shinya Ohta
Lecturer Hideki Tanizawa
Project Assistant ProfessorClaire Yik-Lok Chung
Developmental Physiology

Cellular polarity and mechanics in normal and diseased contexts
Professor Fumio MOTEGI, Ph.D.
E-mail: motegi*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Lecturer Kenji Kimura
Lecturer Yukako Nishimura
Project Assistant ProfessorKazunori Yamamoto
Microbial Oncology

Molecular mechanism underlying Helicobacter pylori-mediated gastric carcinogenesis
Associate Professor Naoko Kamiya, Ph.D.
E-mail: naokokam*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Disease Control
Molecular Interaction

Physiological significance of asymmetry of membrane phospholipids
Professor Kazuma Tanaka, Ph.D.
E-mail: k-tanaka*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Assistant Professor Takuma Kishimoto
Biomedical Oncology

Elucidating the carcinogenic mechanisms and generating anti-cancer drug
leads
Professor Masahiro Sonoshita, Ph.D.
E-mail: msonoshita*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Assistant Professor Takako Ohshio
Assistant Professor Ryodai Yamamura
Biological Molecular Mechanisms

Molecular mechanisms of autophagy and liquid-liquid phase separation involved
in various life phenomena
Professor Noda Nobuo, Ph.D.
E-mail: nn*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor Yuko Fujioka
Project Lecturer Takuma Tsuji
Assistant Professor Daisuke Noshiro
Project Assistant ProfessorYuta Ogasawara
Attached Facility
Laboratory of Animal Experiment

Generation of Animal Models for Cancer, Immune, and Infectious Diseases.
Professor Ken-ichiro Seino, M.D., Ph.D.
E-mail: seino*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Associate Professor Kumiko Yoshimatsu
Center of infection-associated cancer

Research of cancer caused by infection.
Professor Masahiro Sonoshita, Ph.D.
E-mail: msonoshita*igm.hokudai.ac.jp

Professor Masanori Hatakeyama, M.D., Ph.D.
E-mail: masahata*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Professor Kohji Moriishi, V.M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor Naoko Kamiya
Associate Professor 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.
E-mail: okazaki*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Assistant Professor Nao Morimoto
Endowed Department
Department of Synbiotics

Clarification of mechanism for the regulation of biological function by probiotics
Professor Tadaaki Miyazaki, Ph.D.
E-mail: miyazaki*igm.hokudai.ac.jp
Lecturer Kouichi Sato
Assistant Professor Kazunobu Baba
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