Lab Overview
Our Faculty
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Director
Keishi YAMASAKI
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutics, clinical pharmacy
- Research content
- Analysis of the structure and function of serum proteins and their medical applications
- Website
- Laboratory of Biophamaceutics
Assistant Director
Tsuyoshi IKEDA
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmacognosy, natural product chemistry, glycochemistry, pharmaceutical food science, lifestyle disease prevention, antitumor activity
- Research content
- Discovery of natural products that inhibit formation of advanced glycation end-products
Researcher (Full-time)
Kenji TSUKIGAWA
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Assistant Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmaceutics, Drug Delivery System, Pharmacokinetics
- Research content
- Design and assessment of DDS-based anticancer drug
- tsukigawa[at]ph.sojo-u.ac.jp
- Website
- Laboratory of Biophamaceutics
Researchers (Part-time)
Makoto ANRAKU
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmaceutics, drug delivery science, cyclodextrins, chitosan, albumin
- Research content
- Design and assessment of medical materials utilizing functional polysaccharides
- anraku[at]ph.sojo-u.ac.jp
Daisuke IOHARA
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Associate Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmaceutics, cyclodextrins, fullerene, crystal polymorphism, nanoparticles, solid state properties
- Research content
- Improving the properties and functionality of drugs, carbon materials, and polymeric thickeners utilizing cyclodextrins
- dio[at]ph.sojo-u.ac.jp
Shuhei IMOTO
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Associate Professor)
- Field of research
- Nucleic acid chemistry, organic chemistry
- Research content
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- Synthesis of nucleosides and nucleotides for hepatitis B medications
- Invention of novel anticancer drugs that respond to the low pH environment inside tumor cells
Yuji UCHIDA
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmacology, neurology, pharmacotherapeutics, clinical pharmacology, muscular dystrophy, skeletal muscles, muscle differentiation
- Research content
- Website
- Laboratory of Pharmacology
Takatoshi OHKURI
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Protein engineering, antibody engineering, immunology
- Research content
- Stabilization and blood half-life extension of antibody drug Fab fragments
- ohkuri[at]ph.sojo-u.ac.jp
Masaki OTAGIRI
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Specially-Appointed Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmacokinetics, DDS
- Research content
- Potential Utility of Albumin as Nanomedicine Carrier
- Website
- Biopharmaceutics
Daisuke KADOWAKI
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Research content
- Applications for renal disease patients based on analysis of antioxidant action of medicine
- d-kado[at]ph.sojo-u.ac.jp
- Website
- Laboratory of Pharmaceutics
Akihiko KUNIYASU
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo Universit, Professor)
- Field of research
- Peptide chemistry, peptide mimetics, phage display, leukemia, Alzheimer's disease
- Research content
- Molecular imaging and targeting via specific ligands
Kazumi SHIMONO
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Biophysics, biomembrane transportation, molecular recognition
- Research content
- Pharmacokinetic control using drug transporters
Hakaru SEO
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Medical pharmaceutics, generic drugs, DDS, egograms
- Research content
- Quality assessment of supplements and generic drugs
Keizo TAKESHITA
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Oxidative stress, active oxygen, free radicals, DDS, electron spin resonance, magnetic resonance imaging
- Research content
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications in pharmacokinetic analysis and development of multifunctional MRI contrast agents that provide therapeutic effects
Shinji TAKECHI
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Biospin, biomarkers
- Research content
- Understanding the mechanisms of glycation products in diabetic complications
Fumitoshi HIRAYAMA
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Pharmaceutics, cyclodextrin, inclusion compounds, functional pharmaceutical materials, drug delivery systems, solid state properties, crystal polymorphism
- Research content
- Medical applications of cyclodextrin, cyclic oligosaccharides
Koki YAMAGUCHI
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Associate Professor)
- Field of research
- Cascade reactions, molecular orbital calculation, single-crystal X-ray structure analysis
- Research content
- Molecular design using pericyclic cascade reactions
- kyamag05[at]ph.sojo-u.ac.jp
Kazumi YOKOMIZO
(Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sojo University, Professor)
- Field of research
- Microorganisms, antibiotics, antiviral agents, vaccines, health foods, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, predisease
- Research content
- Development of treatment drugs for herpes diseases
- yoko0514[at]ph.sojo-u.ac.jp
