List of Researchers in 2000


Directors

Director:	 Setsuo Hirohashi
 Deputy Director:Ken Yamaguchi
 Director(Research Institute East):
         Hiroyasu Esumi
 Assisting Staff:
         Nobuko Midorikawa, Izumi Hyo

Pathology Division

Chief:      Michiie Sakamoto
 Section Head:  Tesshi Yamada, Yukihiro Nakanishi, Yae Kanai, Toshiro Niki
 Staff Scientist:Takeo Terasaki, Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Yuko Yamauchi, Masahiro
         Gotoh, Jun Yasuda, Tadashi Hasegawa, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Gen Fujii,
         Arafumi Maeshima, Shigeki Sekine
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship: 
         Kengo Kanetaka, Yasuyoshi Naishiro, Seishi Aoki, Masaaki Takamura,
         Yoshimasa Saito, Takeshi Shimamura, Makoto Chuuma, Kazuaki
         Nakanishi
  Other fellowship:
         Hitomi Tsuiji, Shingo Akimoto
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Yuichi Sato, Hitoshi Tsuda
   from Abroad:Jeong-Seok Nam (Korea), Han-Seung Yoon (New Zealand)
 Trainee:    Haruhiro Sato, Kazuhide Kato, Satoshi Okada
 Assisting Staff:Michiko Suzuki

Biochemistry Division

Chief:      Hitoshi Nakagama
 Section Head:  Mitsuko Masutani, Tadashige Nozaki
 Staff Scientist:Masako Ochiai, Tsuneyuki Ubagai, Hirokazu Fukuda, Naoto Tsuchiya
 Honorary Member:Minako Nagao
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:	
         Kentaro Nakamoto, Takashi Shimokawa, Kaori Hara
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Sachiyo Takagi, Yuko Iizuka
   from Abroad:Hisayoshi Nakazawa, Paul H. M. Lohman (The Netherlands)
 Trainee:    Naotaka Torii, Hisako Fujihara, Ei Hashida, Haruki Kume, Takamitsu
         Kanazawa, Rie Tajima, Atsushi Shibata, Maiko Sato, Motoko Shiokawa,
         Wendy Y. Hara
 Assisting Staff:Makiko Inoue, Yoshiko Hirao, Haruka Maruyama, Hisako Okuda,
         Yukiko Araki

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
 Other fellowship:
         Shinobu Ueda
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kazunori Sekine, Jun Satoh
   from Abroad:Beom Seok Han (Korea)
 Trainee:    Tetsuyuki Takahashi, Atsuki Uno
 Assisting Staff:Ayako Ichikawa, Ai Yamaguchi

Biology Division

Chief:      Jun Yokota
 Section Head:  Yoichi Taya, Kazuhiro Morishita, Takashi Kohno
 Staff Scientist:Ziro Yamaizumi, Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Yoshikazu Ioki, Masachika
         Tani, Kazuya Shinmura, Yoshio Tomizawa
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Kimihiro Shimizu, Satoshi Takakura, Kaoru Inoue, Kenji Kimura,
         Noriaki Sunaga, Michiho Nishioka, Noriko Yanagitani, Nozomu
         Yanaihara
  Other fellowship:
         Tomoaki Tanaka, Hanako Daino
 Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:Seong-Won Choi (Korea), In-Sook Woo (Korea), Myung-Joe Park
         (Korea), Yong-Bum Park (Korea)
 Trainee:    Ryokuhei Manda, Tatsuya Yamada, Satoru Yamaguchi, Naomi
         Mochizuki, Kiyohito Taira, Takayuki Saito, Tetsuhito Nakano,
         Tomonori Yabuta, Keiko Kobayashi, Yukiko Kitagawa, Masakazu
         Yoshizumi, Kazuji Ohmori, Takako Sato, Satoru Ozawa, Tomomi
         Shinozaki
 Assisting Staff:Megumi Unoki, Mina Takahashi, Ayaka Ohtsuka, Ayumi Hukukei,
         Kyoko Fujinaka

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, Atsushi Shimizu, Sachiyo Kanai, Fumiaki Koizumi
 Trainee:    Hisao Fukumoto, Fumiko Chiwaki, Fumiyuki Takahashi, Hayato 
         Ogasawara, Yasuaki Tatsumi, Souji Kakiuchi, Nasa Morokawa,
         Saeko Tanaka, Shigeru Akutagawa, Mikiko Shimizu, Makoto Ishida,
         Fumiko Taguchi, Hitoshi Kusaba, Yoshiko Akiyama, Atsushi
         Yasumoto
 Assisting Staff:Miyuki Hosoi, Kiyoe Yoshida

Biophysics Division

Chief:      Yoshiyuki Kuchino
 Section Head:  Tomonari Muramatsu, Chifumi Kitanaka
 Staff Scientist:Motohisa Kaneko, Satoru Watanabe, Kumiko Todate, Hanae Arai,
         Tomo Yasuda
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Hiroyasu Ohno, Kaori Sakurada
 Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:Yi Ka-Hee (Korea)
 Trainee:    Arata Tomiyama, Jun Sunayama, Akiko Kokubu, Sayaka Fujita

Growth Factor Division

Chief:      Ken Yamaguchi
 Section Head:  Toshihiko Tsukada, Hitoyasu Futami, Kazuki Sasaki
 Staff Scientist:Yasuto Akiyama, Kouji Maruyama, Naganari Ohkura, Naoko
         Kajimura, Kotomi Ohtsubo, Yumi Hasegawa
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Takashi Hojo, Noriko Nara, Kae Sato, Kei-ichi Ohshima
  Other fellowship:
         Yuko Nagamura, Mon Ebinuma
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kiyoteru Noguchi
   from Abroad:Suming Wang (USA), Morihiro Watanabe (USA), Jin Yan Cheng
         (People's Republic of China)
 Trainee:    Mariko Kikuchi

Cancer Genomics Division

Chief:      Misao Ohki
 Section Head:  Hitoshi Ichikawa, Issay Kitabayashi, Tsutomu Ohta
 Staff Scientist:Kimiko Shimizu, Fumie Hosoda, Fumiko Morohoshi, Yasuhito Arai,
         Kazutsune Yamagata, Tokuki Sakiyama
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Hiroyuki Shimada, Tsutomu Akahane, Takashi Kubo,
  Other fellowship:
         Takeo Shobuike
 Trainee:    Nguyen Lan Anh Thi (Vietnum), Nakenori Kotani
 Assisting Staff:Nahoko Sawasaki, Michiyo Fukushima, Kyoko Arai

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,
         Hiroko Arimoto, Eiko Uchiyama, Junko Ishihara
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Naoki Ishizuka, Yuko Saito
  Other fellowship:
         Yasuto Sato
Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Hiroshi Nagata, Miyuki Niimi
 Assisting Staff:Yasuko Iba

Virology and Glycobiology Division

Chief:      Masaki Saito
 Section Head:  Hiroo Ueno, Ryuichi Sakai, Atsushi Ishii
 Staff Scientist:Kazuhiro Matsuda, Kazuo Sugiyama
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Izumi Miyake, Hiroko Hamasaki, Daisuke Kamei
  Other fellowship:
         Masanori Ikeda, Chikami Nakamura
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Hiroyuki Nitta, Kazuhiro Nakamura
 Trainee:    Hiroko Hoshi, Hirokazu Mogi, Makoto Tada, Susumu Matsumoto,
         Huang jin hong, Na Li

Cancer Prevention Division

Chief:      Keiji Wakabayashi
 Section Head:  Masahiko Watanabe, Toshihiko Kawamori
 Staff Scientist:Mami Takahashi, Atsuko Tada
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Takashi Kanazawa, Takeji Enya, Masaki Iimuro, Yasuyoshi Sasahara
  Other fellowship:
         Yukari Totsuka
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Tomohiro Kitamura, Hideyuki Shibata, Michihiro Mutoh
 Trainee:    Masanobu Takiguchi
 Assisting Staff:Yuko Hirashima, Yuki Mori, Yurika Teramoto, Naoaki Uchiya,
         Yuko Hibiya, Aya Konno, Mariko Sasaki, Mika Kawamura

Genetics Division

Chief:      Teruhiko Yoshida
 Section Head:  Hiromi Sakamoto, Hiroki Sasaki, Masaru Katoh
 Staff Scientist:Koichi Suzuki, Sumiko Ohnami
 Honorary Member:Hiroshi Tanooka
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Michihiro Narikiyo, Hiroyuki Kirikoshi, Sohichi Furuhata, Dal Ho
         Kim, Kazuteru Hatanaka, Akio Ashida
  Other fellowship:
         Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Akiko Hori, Chikako Tanabe, Michiko Nishigaki
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Tetsuroh Saitoh
   from Abroad:Hark Kyun Kim
 Trainee:    Takeyuki Suzuki

Radiobiology Division

Chief(Acting):  Setsuo Hirohashi
 Section Head:  Nobuo Munakata
 Staff Scientist:Kazuhiko Tanaka
 Assisting Staff: Miyo Munakata, Machiko Watanabe

Carcinogenesis Division

Chief:      Toshikazu Ushijima
 Section Head:  Kazuaki Miyamoto
 Staff Scientist:Eriko Okochi, Takashi Kuramoto, Kiyoshi Asada, Satoshi Yamashita
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Daiya Takai, Yoshikazu Hirayama, Atsushi Kaneda
  Other fellowship:
         Naoko Watanabe
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kuniko Wakazono
 Trainee:    Hirotaka Tsugumi, Masashi Kamohara

Section for Studies on Metastasis

Section Head:   Takahiro Ochiya
 Staff Scientist:Hanako Yamamoto
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Kotaro Hirai
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Kimi Honma
 Assisting Staff:Kimiko Yoshida, Maki Abe, Masako Hosoda

Section for Studies on Host-immune Response

Section Head:   Kazunori Aoki
 Staff Scientist:Yoshinori Ikarashi

Tumor Suppression and Functional Genomics Project

Project Leader:  Yoshinori Murakami
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Masami Kuramochi, Hiroshi Fukuhara, Takamasa Kanbe
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Tomoko Maruyama
   from Abroad:Markus Stark (Germany)
 Trainee:    Takeshi Fukami

DNA Methylation and Genome Function Project

Project Leader:  Masahiko Shiraishi
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Other fellowship:
         Shiro Koizume
 Visiting Scientist
   from Abroad:Michael J. Terry (USA), Adam J. Oates (UK)
 Trainee:    Yuji Miyamoto
 Assisting Staff:Azumi Sekiguchi

Pathology Division, East

Chief:      Atsushi Ochiai
 Section Head:  Takahiro Hasebe, Tomoyuki Yokose
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship: 
         Hiroyuki Yonou, Tomoyuki Kamijo, Naoki Kanomata
 Trainee:    Yasuyuki Aoyagi
 Assisting Staff:Chie Okumura, Yoko Okuhara, Motoko Suzaki

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division

Chief:      Shoichiro Tsugane
 Section Head:  Satoshi Sasaki
 Staff Scientist:Tomoyuki Hanaoka
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Minatsu Kobayashi, Shizuka Sasazuki, Megumi Hara
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Noriyuki Kawamura, Ako Yoshinaga
   from Abroad:Michael Thomas Fahey (Australia)
 Trainee:    Yoshiko Takahashi, Chisako Yamauchi
 Assisting Staff:Toyoko Matsumoto, Takako Mamiya, Miyako Konishi, Yuko
         Iwatare, Chieko Kanai, Keiko Kimura, Mayumi Takahashi, Hiroko
         Hashimoto, Michiyo Hosokawa, Norie Chiba

Investigative Treatment Division

Chief(Acting):  Hiroyasu Esumi
 Section Head:  Tsutomu Ogura
 Staff Scientist:Kenji Sugiyama, Yukiko Kurashima
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Kazuhiro Imamura, Hiroshi Nagoshi, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Kazuyoshi
         Kato, Kishimoto
 Trainee:    Masayuki Tatemichi, Kunihiko Izuishi, Manabu Muto

Psycho-Oncology Division

Chief:      Yosuke Uchitomi
 Section Head:  Tatsuo Akechi, Yasuo Shima (adjunct)
 Staff Scientist:Tomohito Nakano (adjunct)
 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Research Resident Fellowship:
         Masatoshi Inagaki, Yuriko Sugahara, Yutaka Matsuoka
  Other fellowship:
         Marcus Wenner (UK)
 Visiting Scientist
   from Japan: Hitoshi Okamura, Tatsuya Morita
 Trainee:    Nobuya Akizuki, Yoshie Okano
 Assisting Staff:Ryoko Katayama, Yuko Kojima, Yurie Sugihara, Masae Kamiya

Central RI Laboratory

Section Head:   Shumpei Ohnami

Central Animal Laboratory

Section Head:   Kazuyoshi Yanagihara
 Staff Scientist:Moriyoshi Miyamoto
 Trainee:    Masayo Hatano