List of Researchers in 1997


Pathology Division

Chief (Acting):  Setsuo Hirohashi
Section Head:    Tesshi Yamada, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Atsushi Ochiai, Michiie Sakamoto
Staff Scientist: Takeo Terasaki, Kimie Yamagishi, Hitoshi Tsuda, Toshiro Niki,
                 Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Yuko Yamauchi, Masahiro Gotoh, Yae Kanai,
                 Yukihiro Nakanishi, Keiji Maruyama, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shingo Akimoto
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Yoshiyuki Ishii, Keisuke Eguchi, Takeshi Fukuchi, Takuya Genda,
                 Asako Takaoka, Yukiko Ono, Kohei Shomori, Masahide Tokunoh
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Chihaya Maezawa
   from Abroad:  Makito Emura (Germany), Ai-Ming Hui (China)
Trainee:         Haruhiro Sato, Lin Sun

Biochemistry Division

Chief:           Hitoshi Nakagama
Section Head:    Mitsuko Masutani
Staff Scientist: Masako Ochiai, Tadashige Nozaki, Hideaki Inamori, Yukiko Ishiguro,
                 Makiko Inoue, Hiromi Ueki
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Kenji Soda, Tsuneyuki Ubagai
Trainee:         Takashi Shimokawa, Yumiko Tachi, Hideaki Ogata

Chemotherapy Division

Chief:           Hiroyuki Tsuda
Section Head:    Takehiko Kunimoto, Masaaki Iigo, Makoto Asamoto
Staff Scientist: Mitsuaki Maeda, Nobuaki Uehara, Nobuo Takasuka, Hiroyasu Baba-Toriyama
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Tomonori Ota, Aritoshi Yasuda, Kazunori Sekine, Yoshihiko Ushida,
                 Tetsuya Kuhara
   from Abroad:  Malcolm A. Moore (UK), Cheol Beom Park (Korea)
Trainee:         Akira Ando, Hiroki Suzuki, Fumitaka Takeshita

Biology Division

Chief:           Jun Yokota
Section Head:    Yoshihito Yaoi, Yoichi Taya, Kazuhiro Morishita
Staff Scientist: Ziro Yamaizumi, Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Yoshikazu Ioki, Takashi Kohno,
                 Yoshio Tomizawa, Mariko Sasaki, Kaori Takeuchi, Kanae Hitomi
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:	
                 Kazuya Shinmura, Yasuhiro Nagamachi, Masahiko Tosaka, Kimiko Takei
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Junko Takita, Masachika Tani
Trainee:         Seiichi Shimizu, Takao Kodera, Akihiro Morinaga, Kunihiro Hamada,
                 Keiji Kazama, Ryokuhei Manda, Kimihiro Shimizu, Mina Takahashi

Pharmacology Division

Chief (Acting):  Masaaki Terada
Section Head:    Fumihiko Kanzawa, Kazuto Nishio
Staff Scientist: Nagahiro Saijo, Motoko Inomata, Mitsuji Yoshida, Yuji Heike,
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Kazuya Fukuoka, Hisao Fukumoto, Yasuo Iwamoto, Ichiro Naruse, Jitsuo Usuda
Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:  Hyo-Jeong Kuh (Korea)
Trainee:         Toshihiro Suzuki, Toshihiko Sunami

Biophysics Division

Chief:           Yoshiyuki Kuchino
Section Head:    Tomonari Muramatsu, Chifumi Kitanaka
Staff Scientist: Motohisa Kaneko, Misako Aida, Kohji Noguchi, Satoru Watanabe, Fukiko Inoue,
                 Kumiko Todate, Akemi Hayashi
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Toshihiro Mochizuki
Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:  Shunji Chi (China)
Trainee:         Masato Iida, Hiroko Ao, Naohiro Ito, Hironobu Yamana

Growth Factor Division

Chief:           Ken Yamaguchi
Section Head:    Toshihiko Tsukada, Hitoyasu Futami, Kazuki Sasaki
Staff Scientist: Koichi Nagasaki, Naganari Ohkura, Naoko Kajimura, Kotomi Ohtsubo, 
                 Yumi Hasegawa
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Shuji Bandoh, Kouji Maruyama, Tetsuji Hosono, Hiroaki Hanzawa
   Other Fellowships:
                 Kayo Takasaki, Eiji Nishimura, Mon Ebinuma
Visiting Scientist	
   from Japan:   Noriko Ishihara
   from Abroad:  Yu Ming (China)
Trainee:         Tomohiro Manabe, Kotaro Ui, Nobuyuki Sato, Satoko Shimizu, Mari Kishi

Radiobiology Division

Chief:           Misao Ohki
Section Head:    Nobuo Munakata, Akira Tanigami, Hitoshi Ichikawa
Staff Scientist: Kimiko Shimizu, Fumie Hosoda, Fumiko Morohoshi, Issay Kitabayashi, 
                 Yasuhito Arai, Kazuhiko Tanaka
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Eiko Kitamura, Sawako Nakamura, Hiroki Gomyo, Masanobu Nakata, 
                 Hiroyuki Shimada
Trainee:         Kohmei Ida, Masami Narita, Yoshiko Ohtsuka, Asuka Ueno

Cancer Information and Epidemiology Division

Chief:           Naohito Yamaguchi
Section Head:    Tomotaka Sobue, Hiroshi Mizushima, Yoshihide Kinjo
Staff Scientist: Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa, Shinichi Nakagawa, Seiichiro Yamamoto, 
                 Kimio Yoshimura, Eiko Uchiyama, Junko Ishihara, Hiroshi Oyama, 
                 Haruhiko Fukuda, Fumihiko Wakao
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Mitsuru Kubo, Miyuki Niimi, Nozomi Nakahashi, Marisa Minami, Saori Okuyama
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Shoichi Mizuno, Hiroshi Nagata, Masako Kaizawa
   from Abroad:  Weimin Ye (China)
Trainee:         Shiro Hinotsu, Takeo Shibata, Satoshi Kaneko, Yuko Saito

Virology Division

Chief:           Masaki Saito
Section Head:    Nobuyuki Kato, Tsuyoshi Akagi
Staff Scientist: Torahiko Tanaka, Kazuo Sugiyama
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Masanori Ikeda
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Mitiharu Inudoh, Takahide Nakazawa

Cancer Prevention Division

Chief:           Keiji Wakabayashi
Section Head:    Kazunori Fukuda, Masahiko Watanabe
Staff Scientist: Mami Takahashi, Atsuko Oguri, Takuo Kono
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Mizuki Onozawa, Tetsuya Tanigawa, Michihiro Muto, Yukari Totsuka
   Other Fellowships:
                 Masayoshi Ohyama
Trainee:         Seiichi Nakatsugi, Kouji Watanabe, Toshihisa Ohta, Souichi Mamiya, 
                 Mariko Nakazawa, Masashige Takanashi, Takehiko Koine, Emi Narato, 
                 Kumiko Tsurumaki

Genetics Division

Chief:           Teruhiko Yoshida
Section Head:    Hiromi Sakamoto, Sasaki Hiroki, Takahiro Ochiya
Staff Scientist: Masaru Katoh, Yasushi Takahama, Sumiko Ohnami, Chiharu Takada
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Masahiko Nezu, Tetsuya Ueda, Yoshitaka Kuwahara, Masaru Nakano, 
                 Makoto Tokuhara,
   Other Fellowships:
                 Hiroyasu Konishi, Maki Abe, Akiko Hori, Chikako Tanabe
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Hiroshi Tanooka

Oncogene Division

Chief:           Takao Sekiya
Section Head:    Yoshinori Murakami, Masahiko Shiraishi
Staff Scientist: Masayoshi Iizuka, Jun Yasuda
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Kenji Tamura, Masayuki Inoue, Hideo Kuchiki, Shiro Koizume,
                 Takahiro Nobukuni
Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:  Har Gobind Khorana (USA), Xu Li (China), Ying Hue Chuu (USA)
Trainee:         Hiroyuki Kon, Takashi Obana

Carcinogenesis Division

Chief:           Minako Nagao
Section Head:    Toshikazu Ushijima
Staff Scientist: Michie Nakayasu, Hirokazu Fukuda, Hiroshi Imai, Eriko Okochi, 
                 Yukinari Yoshida
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Takashi Kuramoto, Keiichiro Morimura, Masumi Suzui
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Kyoko Higo, Fumio Enjyo, Satoru Takahashi
   from Abroad:  Roderick H. Dashwood (USA), Ze'ev Ronai (USA)
Trainee:         Kuniko Naoi

Section for Studies on Metastasis

Section Head (Acting):
                 Masaaki Terada
Staff Scientist: Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Ayako Suzuki

Section for Studies on Host-immune Response

Section Head:    Hiro Wakasugi
Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ikarashi, Rieko Kamehara
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Kouichi Shinohara
Trainee:         Junko Tajima

Pathology Division, East

Chief:           Kiyoshi Mukai
Section Head:    Takahiro Hasebe
Staff Scientist: Tomoyuki Yokose
Trainee:Rieko    Nishimura, Tadaaki Koyama

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division

Chief:           Shoichiro Tsugane
Section Head:    Satoshi Sasaki
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Ako Yoshinaga
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Minatsu Kobayashi
   from Abroad:  Michael T. Fahey (Australia)

Investigative Treatment Division

Chief (Acting):  Hiroyasu Esumi
Section Head:    Tsutomu Ogura
Staff Scientist: Kenji Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Hitomi, Yukiko Kurashima
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Sachiyo Nomura, Haruko Jimbo, Nobuyuki Sakurazawa, Hideo Kimura
Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:  Alessandro Weisz (Italy), Fulvio DaQuisto (Italy)
Trainee:         Masayuki Tatemichi, Kenji Suzuki, Chin Keishou, Seiji Niho, Kouichi Goto,
                 Kazuyoshi Kato

Psycho-Oncology Division

Chief:           Yosuke Uchitomi
Section Head:    Yasuo Shima
Staff Scientist: Hitoshi Okamura, Tatsuo Akechi
Postdoctoral Fellow
   Research Resident Fellowship:
                 Toru Okuyama, Tomohito Nakano
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan:   Noriyuki Kawamura, Ichiro Mikami
Trainee:         Akira Kugaya, Sakiko Fukui