List of Researchers in 2001


Directors

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

Pathology Division

Chief: Michiie Sakamoto
  Section Head: Yukihiro Nakanishi, Yae Kanai, Tadashi Hasegawa
  Staff Scientist: Takeo Terasaki, Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Yuko Yamauchi, Masahiro Gotoh, Jun Yasuda, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Gen Fujii, Arafumi Maeshima, Shigeki Sekine, Akiko Maeshima, Hidenori Ojima
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Seishi Aoki, Masaaki Takamura, Yoshimasa Saito, Takeshi Shimamura, Makoto Chuuma, Kazuaki Nakanishi
    Other fellowship: Hitomi Tsuiji, Shingo Akimoto
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Yuichi Sato, Hitoshi Tsuda, Kazuhide Kato
Jeong-Seok Nam (Korea)
  Trainee: Akira Tsuchiya, Toru Nakagawa
  Assisting Staff: Michiko Suzuki, Saori Ushijima

Biochemistry Division

Chief: Hitoshi Nakagama
  Section Head: Mitsuko Masutani, Tadashige Nozaki, Hirokazu Fukuda
  Staff Scientist: Masako Ochiai, Tsuneyuki Ubagai, Naoto Tsuchiya, Kaori Hara
  Honorary Member: Minako Nagao
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Takashi Shimokawa, Kyoko Fujiwara
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Sachiyo Takagi
  Trainee: Naotaka Torii, Hisako Fujihara, Rie Tajima, Atsushi Shibata, Motoko Shiokawa, Mitsunori Ushigome, Akemi Gunji, Yuko Seo, Sachiho Oami, Shizuo Motoyama, Kayo Yonezawa
  Assisting Staff: Makiko Inoue, Yoshiko Hirao, Haruka Maruyama, Mutsumi Kaizuka, 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, Ken-ichi Fujita
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Katsumi Fukamachi
    Other fellowship: Shinobu Ueda
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Kazunori Sekine
Beom Seok Han (Korea), Chuel Kyu Kim (Korea)
  Trainee: Tetsuyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Nomoto, Norika Kohchi, Fumi Yamamoto
  Assisting Staff: Ayako Ichikawa, Ai Yamaguchi

Biology Division

Chief: Jun Yokota
  Section Head: Takashi Kohno
  Staff Scientist: Ziro Yamaizumi, Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Yoshikazu Ioki, Masachika Tani, Kazuya Shinmura, Michiho Nishioka, Yoshio Tomizawa
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Noriaki Sunaga, Noriko Yanagitani, Nozomu Yanaihara, Keiko Kobayashi
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Satoru Yamaguchi, Takayuki Saito, Tetsuhito Nakano
Jn-Sook Woo (Korea), Myung-Joe Park (Korea),
Jeong Gyoon Kim (Korea)
  Trainee: Tomonori Yabuta, Yukiko Kitagawa, Masakazu Yoshizumi, Shigeru Sasaki, Jun Ito, Arito Yamane, Natsuko Imaizumi
  Assisting Staff: Megumi Unoki, Ayaka Otsuka, Yumi Mizukura, Eiko Sameshima

Pharmacology Division

Chief: Hiro Wakasugi
  Section Head: Fumihiko Kanzawa, Kazuto Nishio, Kazunori Kato
  Staff Scientist: Motoko Inomata, Mitsuzi Yoshida, Yoshinori Ikarashi, Yuki Hatanaka, Minako Takahashi, Takayuki Morikawa
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Kazuo Shirakawa, Yoshiko Inoue, Yasuhiro Koh, Atsushi Shimizu, Sachiyo Kanai, Fumiaki Koizumi, Mutsuko Onishi, Ichiro Watanabe, Fumiko Taguchi
  Trainee: Shigeru Akutagawa, Mikiko Shimizu, Makoto Ishida, Hitoshi Kusaba, Yoshiko Akiyama, Yutaka Ueda, Shoji Tsukiyama, Aki Chizuka, Atsushi Yasumoto, Sachiyo Hatada, Yumie Koshidaka
  Assisting Staff: Miyuki Hosoi, Akira Iiduka, Sanae Hirata, Kiyoe Koguchi

Biophysics Division

Chief: Yoshiyuki Kuchino
  Section Head: Tomonari Muramatsu, Chifumi Kitanaka
  Staff Scientist: Satoru Watanabe, Kumiko Todate, Tomo Yasuda
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Kaori Sakurada, Arata Tomiyama
  Visiting Scientist
from Abroad:
 
Yi Ka-Hee (Korea)
  Trainee: Akiko Kokubu, Yoshikazu Andoh, Takashi Satoh

Growth Factor Division

Chief (Acting): Ken Yamaguchi
  Section Head: Toshihiko Tsukada, Hitoyasu Futami, Kazuki Sasaki, Ryuhei Tanaka
  Staff Scientist: Yasuto Akiyama, Kouji Maruyama, Naganari Ohkura
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Noriko Nara, Kae Sato, Kei-ichi Ohshima, Hiroko Yaguchi
    Other fellowship: Yuko Nagamura, Mon Ebinuma
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Kiyoteru Noguchi
  Trainee: Mariko Kikuchi, Yutaka Takigawa
  Assisting Staff: Naoko Kajimura, Kotomi Ohtsubo, Yumi Hasegawa

Cancer Genomics Division

Chief: Misao Ohki
  Section Head: Hitoshi Ichikawa, Tsutomu Ohta, Hiroshi Mizushima
  Staff Scientist: Kimiko Shimizu, Fumie Hosoda, Fumiko Morohoshi, Yasuhito Arai, Kazutsune Yamagata, Tokuki Sakiyama
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Tsutomu Akahane, Takashi Kubo, Akihiko Yokoyama
    Other fellowship: Tomohito Yagi
  Trainee: Nguyen Lan Anh Thi (Vietnum)
  Assisting Staff: Nahoko Sawasaki, Michiyo Fukushima, Kyoko Nakayama

Cancer Information and Epidemiology Division

Chief: Naohito Yamaguchi
  Section Head: Tomotaka Sobue, Haruhiko Fukuda, Satoshi Kaneko
  Staff Scientist: Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Kimio Yoshimura, Hiroko Arimoto, Eiko Uchiyama, Junko Ishihara
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Naoki Ishizuka, Yuko Saito, Itsuro Yoshimi, Ying Liu
    Other fellowship: Yasuto Sato
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Miyuki Niimi
  Assisting Staff: Yasuko Iba

Virology and Glycobiology Division

Chief: Setsuo Hirohashi (acting)
  Section Head: Hiroo Ueno, Ryuichi Sakai, Atsushi Ishii
  Staff Scientist: Kazuhiro Matsuda, Kazuo Sugiyama
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Hiroko Hamasaki, Daisuke Kamei, Yuko Hakomori
    Other fellowship: Chikami Nakamura
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Izumi Miyake, Kuniko Horie, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Masaki Saito
  Trainee: Huang jin hong, Na Li, Takahiro Makita, Hiroko Hoshi, Hirokazu Mogi, Makoto Tada
  Assisting Staff: Takako Ishiyama, Makiko Noda

Cancer Prevention Division

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

Genetics Division

Chief: Teruhiko Yoshida
  Section Head: Hiromi Sakamoto, Hiroki Sasaki, Masaru Katoh
  Staff Scientist: Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Sumiko Ohnami, Kimiko Yoshida
  Honorary Member: Hiroshi Tanooka
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Hiroyuki Kirikoshi, Dal Ho Kim, Kazuteru Hatanaka, Akio Ashida, Kazuhiko Mori, Ken Tatsuta, Hiroshi Satoh
    Other fellowship: Chikako Tanabe, Michiko Nishigaki
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Tetsuroh Saitoh
Jin-Young Jang (Korea)
  Assisting Staff: Akiko Kobayashi, Mizuko Hirokawa

Radiobiology Division

Chief: Yoichi Taya
  Section Head: Koji Okamoto
  Staff Scientist: Masato Enari
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Other Fellowship:
 
Tomoaki Tanaka, Hanako Daino, Sayaka Tahara, Masami Kodama
  Trainee: Tomomi Shinozaki, Satoru Ozawa, Ayumi Nota
  Assisting Staff: Rieko Takahashi, Mioko Sugawara, Kyoko Fujinaka

Carcinogenesis Division

Chief: Toshikazu Ushijima
  Section Head: Kazuaki Miyamoto, Takashi Kuramoto
  Staff Scientist: Eriko Okochi, Satoshi Yamashita, Atsushi Kaneda, Mami Mihara
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Yoshikazu Hirayama, Junichi Furuta
    Other fellowship: Naoko Watanabe
  Trainee: Toshio Takada, Masanobu Abe, Haruko Miyamoto, Asami Echigo

Section for Studies on Metastasis

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

Section for Studies on Host-immune Response

  Section Head: Kazunori Aoki

Tumor Suppression and Functional Genomics Project

Project Leader: Yoshinori Murakami
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Takeshi Fukami, Masami Kuramochi
    Other fellowship: Mari Masuda
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Hiroshi Fukuhara, Tomoko Maruyama
Markus Stark (Germany)
  Trainee: Mika Yageta, Kana Isogai

DNA Methylation and Genome Function Project

Project Leader: Masahiko Shiraishi
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Other fellowship:
 
Shiro Koizume
  Visiting Scientist
from Abroad:
 
Adam J Oates (UK)
  Assisting Staff: Azumi Sekiguchi

Chromatin Function in Leukemogenesis Project

Project Leader: Issay Kitabayashi
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Akihiko Yokoyama
  Trainee: Lan Anh Nguyen (Vietnam)
  Assisting Staff: Yukiko Aikawa

Cancer Proteomics Project

Project Leader: Tesshi Yamada
  Section Head: Tadashi Kondo
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Masahiro Seike, Yasuharu Mori
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Yasuyoshi Naishiro
  Assisting Staff: Reiko Hayashi, Yoshie Ishiyama, Mizuho Takada, Hiromi Tsuru, Ayaka Miura, Fumi Kaiya

Pathology Division, East

Chief: Atsushi Ochiai
  Section Head: Takahiro Hasebe, Gen-ichiro Ishii
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Naoki Kanomata, Keiji Kodama, Masato Goya, Shin-ichi Miyamoto
  Trainee: Yasuyuki Aoyagi, Zhang SC, Lim Sang Chul
  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 Abroad:
 
Mi Kyung Kim (Korea)
  Trainee: Yoshiko Takahashi
  Assisting Staff: Toyoko Matsumoto, Miyako Konishi, Yuko Iwatare, Chieko Kanai, Keiko Kimura, Mayumi Takahashi, Hiroko Hashimoto, Michiyo Hosokawa, Kayo

Investigative Treatment Division

Chief (Acting): Hiroyasu Esumi
  Section Head: Tsutomu Ogura
  Staff Scientist: Kenji Sugiyama, Yukiko Kurashima
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Hiroshi Nagoshi, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Kazuyoshi Kato, Atsuhiro Kishimoto, Genichi Kusakai
  Trainee: Masayuki Tatemichi, Manabu Muto, Atsushi Suzuki, Jie Lu (China)
  Assisting Staff: Michiru Okano

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, Shimako Suzuki, Koji Taniguchi
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Hitoshi Okamura, Yoshie Okano
  Trainee: Nobuya Akizuki, Yuko Okamura
  Assisting Staff: Ryoko Katayama, Yuko Kojima, Yurie Sugihara, Nobue Taguchi

Central RI Laboratory

  Section Head: Shumpei Ohnami

Central Animal Laboratory

  Section Head: Kazuyoshi Yanagihara
  Assisting Staff: Teruo Komatsu, Hiromi Tanaka, Masataka Abe, Misato Takigahira, Daisuke Takahashi, Naoto Yokoyama, Masashi Yasuda, Takeshi Shibuya