List of Researchers in 1999


Directors

Director:	 Setsuo Hirohashi
 Deputy Director:Ken Yamaguchi
 Director(Research Institute East):
         Hiroyasu Esumi

Pathology Division

Chief:      Michiie Sakamoto
 Section Head:  Tesshi Yamada, Hitoshi Tsuda, Yae Kanai
 Staff Scientist:Takeo Terasaki, Kimie Yamagishi,Toshiro Niki, Yukihiro Nakanishi,
         Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Yuko Yamauchi, Masahiro Gotoh, Keiji
         Maruyama, Tadashi Hasegawa, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Gen Fujii,
         Arafumi Maeshima, Shigeki Sekine
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship: 
         Yukiko Ono, Takuya Genda, Kohei Shomori, Masahide Tokunoh,
         Yoshiya Yamamoto, Atsushi Saito, Yasuyoshi Naishiro, Seishi Aoki,
         Kengo Kanetaka, Masaaki Takamura, Yutaka Kondo, Yoshimasa Saito
  Other fellowship:
         Hitomi Tsuiji, Shingo Akimoto, Zhu Xudong (China)
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Yuichi Sato
   from Abroad:Jeong-Seok Nam (Korea)
 Trainee:    Haruhiro Sato, Kazuhide Kato, Satoshi Okada

Biochemistry Division

Chief:      Hitoshi Nakagama
 Section Head:  Mitsuko Masutani, Tadashige Nozaki
 Staff Scientist:Masako Ochiai, Tsuneyuki Ubagai, Hirokazu Fukuda, Naoto Tsuchiya,
         Hideaki Inamori, Yukiko Ishiguro, Makiko Inoue
 Honorary Member:Minako Nagao
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:	
         Kentaro Nakamoto
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Junko Nagahama, Sachiyo Takagi, Yuko Iizuka
   from Abroad:Hisayoshi Nakazawa
 Trainee:    Takashi Shimokawa, Naotaka Torii, Ei Hashida, Haruki Kume,
         Takamitsu Kanazawa, Nanae Tanaka, Rie Tajima, Mariko Nakano

Experimental Pathology and Chemotherapy Division

Chief:      Hiroyuki Tsuda
 Section Head:  Takehiko Kunimoto, Masaaki Iigo, Yoichiro Matsuoka
 Staff Scientist:Mitsuaki Maeda, Nobuo Takasuka, Hiroyasu Toriyama-Baba,
         Akihiro Naito
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Takamasa Ohnishi, Kenichi Fujita, Katsumi Fukamachi
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kazunori Sekine, Jun Satoh, Fumi Yamamoto 
   from Abroad:Gary S. Goldberg, Beom Seok Han, Wen Ping Wang
 Trainee:    Maki Nonaka, Mako Abe, Ayako Okazawa, Akane Suzuki, Takanobu
         Itoh, Tetsuyuki Takahashi, Kiyomi Miyashita

Biology Division

Chief:      Jun Yokota
 Section Head:  Yoichi Taya, Kazuhiro Morishita
 Staff Scientist:Ziro Yamaizumi, Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Yoshikazu Ioki, Takashi
         Kohno, Masachika Tani, Kazuya Shinmura, Mina Takahashi,
         Ayaka Ohtsuka, Ayumi Hukukei, Kyoko Fujinaka, Kanae Hitomi,
         Megumi Unoki
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Kimihiro Shimizu, Satoshi Takakura, Kaoru Inoue, Kenji Kimura, 
         Noriaki Sunaga, Michiho Nishioka 
  Other fellowship:
         Tomoaki Tanaka
 Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:Seongwon Choi (Korea), In Sook Woo (Korea)
 Trainee:    Ryokuhei Manda, Tatsuya Yamada, Satoru Yamaguchi, Naomi
         Mochizuki, Kiyohito Taira, Takayuki Saito, Tetsuhito Nakano,
         Seiichi Shimizu, Kazuji Ohmori, Takako Sato

Pharmacology Division

Chief:      Hiro Wakasugi
 Section Head:  Fumihiko Kanzawa, Kazuto Nishio, Kazunori Kato
 Staff Scientist:Motoko Inomata, Mitsuji Yoshida, Yuki Hatanaka, Minako Takahashi,
         Takayuki Morikawa
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:	
         Masato Azuma, Rumiko Asada, Kazuo Shirakawa, Yoshiko Inoue,
         Yasuhiro Koh, Takashi Nakamura
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kouichi Shinohara
 Trainee:    Toshihiro Suzuki, Fumiaki Koizumi, Tsugitaka Natsume, Hisao
         Fukumoto, Mikiko Shimizu, Yasuaki Tatsumi, Fumiko Chiwaki,
         Fumiyuki Takahashi, Shigeru Akutagawa, Hayato Ogasawara, Osamu
         Nakano, Jia Yu, Junko Tajima, Mika Agui, Toshiaki Sugahara,
         Yukifumi Hirose

Biophysics Division

Chief:      Yoshiyuki Kuchino
 Section Head:  Tomonari Muramatsu, Chifumi Kitanaka
 Staff Scientist:Motohisa Kaneko, Kohji Noguchi, Satoru Watanabe, Kumiko Todate, 
         Hanae Arai, Tomo Yasuda
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Hiroyasu Ohno
 Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:Gerry Melino (Italy), Vincenzo De Laurenzi (Italy), Seung-Hoon Lee
         (Korea), Werner EG Muller (Germany)
   from Japan: Akinori Sugiyama, Toshihiro Mochizuki
 Trainee:    Yoshie Hirayama, Jun Sunayama, Akiko Kokubu

Growth Factor Division

Chief:      Ken Yamaguchi
 Section Head:  Toshihiko Tsukada, Hitoyasu Futami, Kazuki Sasaki
 Staff Scientist:Kouji Maruyama, Yasuto Akiyama, Koichi Nagasaki, Naganari
         Ohkura, Naoko Kajimura, Kotomi Ohtsubo, Yumi Hasegawa
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Hiroaki Hanzawa, Noriko Nara, Takashi Hojo, Kae Sato
  Other fellowship:
         Kayo Takasaki, Yuko Nagamura, Takako Furuya, Mon Ebinuma
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kiyoteru Noguchi
   from Abroad:Martin Teffner (Germany), Jin Yan Cheng (People’s Republic of
         China)
 Trainee:    Munehiro Honda, Hiroyuki Takeo, Koji Miyazaki

Radiobiology Division

Chief:      Misao Ohki
 Section Head:  Nobuo Munakata, Hitoshi Ichikawa, Issay Kitabayashi
 Staff Scientist:Kimiko Shimizu, Fumie Hosoda, Fumiko Morohoshi, Yasuhito Arai,
         Kazutsune Yamagata, Kazuhiko Tanaka
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Hiroyuki Shimada, Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Tsutomu Akahane
  Other fellowship:
         Takeo Shobuike

Cancer Information and Epidemiology Division

Chief:      Naohito Yamaguchi
 Section Head:  Tomotaka Sobue, Hiroshi Mizushima, Haruhiko Fukuda, Takeo
         Nakayama
 Staff Scientist:Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Kimio Yoshimura,
         Eiko Uchiyama, Junko Ishihara
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Naoki Ishizuka
  Other fellowship:
         Yasuto Sato
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Hiroshi Nagata, Miyuki Niimi
 Trainee:    Takeo Shibata

Virology and Glycobiology Division

Chief:      Masaki Saito
 Section Head:  Nobuyuki Kato, Ryuichi Sakai, Atsushi Ishii
 Staff Scientist:Yuichiro Hamanaka, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Torahiko Tanaka, Kazuo
         Sugiyama
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Atsushi Naganuma, Akito Nozaki, Izumi Miyake, Hiroko Hamasaki
  Other fellowship:
         Masanori Ikeda, Chikami Nakamura
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Hiroyuki Nitta
 Trainee:    Yuka Ohtomo, Hiroko Hoshi, Hirokazu Mogi, Makoto Tada,
         Susumu Matsumoto

Cancer Prevention Division

Chief:      Keiji Wakabayashi
 Section Head:  Masahiko Watanabe, Toshihiko Kawamori
 Staff Scientist:Mami Takahashi, Atsuko Tada, Junko Ishihara
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Tetsuya Tanigawa, Michihiro Mutoh, Yukari Totsuka, Takashi
         Kanazawa, Takeji Enya, Masaki Iimuro
  Other fellowship:
         Hajime Komatsu
 Trainee:    Seiichi Nakatsugi, Kouji Watanabe, Tomohiro Kitamura, Toshihisa
         Ohta, Yurika Teramoto

Genetics Division

Chief:      Teruhiko Yoshida
 Section Head:  Hiromi Sakamoto, Hiroki Sasaki, Masaru Katoh
 Staff Scientist:Koichi Suzuki, Sumiko Ohnami, Chiharu Takada
 Honorary Member:Hiroshi Tanooka
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Tetsuya Ueda, Shunsuke Ohnishi, Jun Koike, Michihiro Narikiyo,
         Hiroyuki Kirikoshi, Sohichi Furuhata
  Other fellowship:
         Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Akiko Hori, Chikako Tanabe, Michiko Nishigaki
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Norihiko Sagara
 Trainee:    Rie Itoh

Oncogene Division

Chief:      Takao Sekiya
 Section Head:  Yoshinori Murakami, Masahiko Shiraishi
 Staff Scientist:Masayoshi Iizuka, Jun Yasuda
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Hiroshi Fukuhara, Takamasa Kanbe, Shiro Koizume, Masami
         Kuramochi, Takahiro Nobukuni, Makoto Saino
 Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:Markus Stark (Germany), Michael Terry (USA), Manuel Perucho
         (USA), Hara P.Ghosh (Canada)
 Trainee:    Masayuki Kanamori

Carcinogenesis Division

Chief:      Toshikazu Ushijima
 Section Head:  Yukinari Yoshida
 Staff Scientist:Eriko Okochi, Takashi Kuramoto, Kiyoshi Asada, Satoshi Yamashita
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Daiya Takai, Yoshikazu Hirayama, Kazuaki Miyamoto
  Other fellowship:
         Naoko Watanabe
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kuniko Wakazono
 Trainee:    Fumiko Saito

Section for Studies on Metastasis

Section Head:   Takahiro Ochiya
 Staff Scientist:Hanako Yamamoto
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Hiroko Kawasaki

Section for Studies on Host-immune Response

Section Head:   Kazunori Aoki
 Staff Scientist:Yoshinori Ikarashi, Reiko Kamehara


Pathology Division, East

Chief:      Atsushi Ochiai
 Section Head:  Takahiro Hasebe, Tomoyuki Yokose
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship: 
         Hiroyuki Yonou, Tomoyuki Kamijo
 Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:Makito Emura (Germany)

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division

Chief:      Shoichiro Tsugane
 Section Head:  Satoshi Sasaki
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Ako Yamada (Yoshinaga), Tomoyuki Hanaoka, Minatsu Kobayashi
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Noriyuki Kawamura
   from Abroad:Michael Thomas Fahey (Australia)
 Trainee:    Chisako Yamauchi

Investigative Treatment Division

Chief: (Acting): Hiroyasu Esumi
 Section Head:  Tsutomu Ogura
 Staff Scientist:Kenji Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Hitomi, Yukiko Kurashima
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Nobuyuki Sakurazawa, Hideo Kimura, Kouichi Hashimoto,
         Kazuhiro Imamura, Hiroshi Nagoshi, Fumio Tamura, Yoshiyuki Ishii,
         Kazuyoshi Kato
 Trainee:    Masayuki Tatemichi, Kunihiko Izuishi, Manabu Muto, Kazuya
         Takamochi

Psycho-Oncology Division

Chief:      Yosuke Uchitomi
 Section Head:  Hitoshi Okamura, Yasuo Shima
 Staff Scientist:Tatsuo Akechi
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Tomohito Nakano
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Toru Okuyama, Ichiro Mikami, Sakiko Fukui
   from Abroad:Marcus Wenner (UK)
 Trainee:	    Nobuya Akizuki

Central RI Laboratory

Section Head:   Setsuo Hirohashi (Acting)
 Staff Scientist:Shumpei Ohnami

Central Animal Laboratory

Section Head:   Kazuyoshi Yanagihara
 Staff Scientist:Moriyoshi Miyamoto