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List of Researchers in 2002


Directors

Director: Setsuo Hirohashi
  Deputy Director: Keiji Wakabayashi
  Director (Research Institute East): Hiroyasu Esumi
  Assisting Staff: Nobuko Midorikawa, Junko Ezuka, Machiko Watanabe, Aya Takagi

Pathology Division

Chief: Yae Kanai
  Section Head: Yukihiro Nakanishi, Tadashi Hasegawa
  Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Yuko Yamauchi, Masahiro Gotoh,Tatsuhiro Shibata, Gen Fujii, Arafumi Maeshima, Shigeki Sekine, Akiko Maeshima, Hidenori Ojima, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Akira Tsuchiya, Tohru Nakagawa, Hideki Yokoo, Nobuhiro Nitori
    Other fellowship: Shingo Akimoto, Akiko Kokubu
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Michiie Sakamoto, Takeshi Shimamura
Panayiotis Loukopoulos (Australia)
  Trainee: Tsuyoshi Eto, Misaki Fujita
  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:
 
Kyoko Fujiwara, Etsuko Tanaka, Akemi Gunji, Hideki Ogino
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Sachiyo Takagi
  Trainee: Hisako Fujihara, Rie Tajima, Atsushi Shibata, Motoko Shiokawa, Mitsunori Ushigome, Yuko Seo, Kayo Yonezawa, Emi Osawa, Naoto Kagaya, Yuji Horita, Yuko Kobayashi, Tomoko Yoshida
  Assisting Staff: Makiko Saito, Yoshiko Hirao, Haruka Maruyama, Mutsumi Kaizuka, Hisako Okuda, Yukiko Araki, Ayako Taguchi

Experimental Pathology and Chemotherapy Division

Chief: Hiroyuki Tsuda
  Section Head: Takehiko Kunimoto, Masaaki Iigo, Yoichiro Matsuoka
  Staff Scientist: Nobuo Takasuka, Hiroyasu Toriyama-Baba, Akihiro Naito, Ken-ichi Fujita
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Tetsuya Hamaguchi
    Other fellowship: Katsumi Fukamachi, Shinobu Ueda
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Kazunori Sekine, Shigetoshi Ohkubo
Chuel Kyu Kim (Korea), Gary S. Goldberg (USA), Malcolm A. Moore (UK), David B. Alexander (USA)
  Trainee: Tetsuyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Nomoto, Eiji Matsuda, Tomoko Izaki, Hiroshi Matsushita, Chigusa Ohgai
  Assisting Staff: Ayako Ichikawa, Ai Yamaguchi, Akane Suzuki

Biology Division

Chief: Jun Yokota
  Section Head: Takashi Kohno
  Staff Scientist: Ziro Yamaizumi, Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Masachika Tani, Kazuya Shinmura, Michiho Nishioka
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Noriko Yanagitani, Nozomu Yanaihara, Keiko Kobayashi, Masaki Nakamoto, Masanori Sato, Makoto Motegi
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Satoru Yamaguchi, Tetsuhito Nakano
Jeong Gyoon Kim (Korea)
  Trainee: Tomonori Yabuta, Yukiko Kitagawa, Shigeru Sasaki, Jun Ito, Arito Yamane, Yasunori Ishibashi, Masahiro Kishimoto, Natsuko Imaizumi, Kaiko Kajiya, Hiroko Yagishita
  Assisting Staff: Megumi Unoki, Ayaka Otsuka, Yumi Mizukura, Satoko Matsuyama

Pharmacology Division

Chief: Hiro Wakasugi
  Section Head: Fumihiko Kanzawa, Kazuto Nishio, Kazunori Kato
  Staff Scientist: Motoko Inomata, Mitsuzi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Yuji Heike, Yoshinori Ikarashi, Takayuki Morikawa
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Yasuhiro Koh, Atsushi Shimizu, Sachiyo Kanai, Fumiaki Koizumi, Ichiro Watanabe, Fumiko Taguchi, Aki Chizuka
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Mutsuko Onishi, Yasuto Akiyama
  Trainee: Yutaka Ueda, Shoji Tsukiyama, Atomu Katayama, Sachiyo Hatada, Yumie Koshidaka, Junichi Masaki, Junpei Abe, Misa Kato
  Assisting Staff: Miyuki Hosoi, Akira Iiduka, Yuiko Sato, Sanae Hirata, Kiyoe Koguchi

Cancer Medicine and Biophysics Division

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

Growth Factor Division

Chief: Ryuichi Sakai
  Section Head: Hitoyasu Futami, Kazuki Sasaki, Ryuhei Tanaka
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Yuko Hakomori, Kotaro Azuma
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Tamae Asawa, Jinhong Huang, Yasuto Akiyama
  Assisting Staff: Naoko Kajimura, Yumi Hasegawa

Molecular Oncology Division

Chief: Issay Kitabayashi
  Section Head: Hitoshi Ichikawa
  Staff Scientist: Kimiko Shimizu, Fumiko Morohoshi, Kazutsune Yamagata
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Other fellowship: Tomohito Yagi
  Trainee: Lan Anh Ngueyen (Vietnam), Yusuke Tagata
  Assisting Staff: Nahoko Sawasaki, Yukiko Aikawa, Sachiyo Mitani, Chikako Hatanaka

Cancer Information and Epidemiology Division

Chief: Tomotaka Sobue
  Section Head: Hiroshi Mizushima, Haruhiko Fukuda, Satoshi Kaneko
  Staff Scientist: Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Kimio Yoshimura, Junko Ishihara
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Yuko Saito, Itsuro Yoshimi, Ying Liu, Harumi Kaba, Akihiro Sato, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Tomomi Marugame
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Miyuki Niimi, Naohito Yamaguchi, Naoki Ishizuka, Hiroe Nozawa
  Assisting Staff: Yasuko Iba

Virology Division

Chief: Tohru Kiyono
  Section Head: Hiroo Ueno, Masatoshi Fujita
  Staff Scientist: Kazuo Sugiyama
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Hiroko Hamasaki, Daisuke Kamei
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Kazuhiro Nakamura, Masahiro Saito, Shintaro Hattori, Taisuke Mori, Masaki Saito
  Trainee: Na Li, Keisuke Handa
  Assisting Staff: Takako Ishiyama, Makiko Noda

Cancer Prevention Division

Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane

Genetics Division

Chief: Teruhiko Yoshida
  Section Head: Hiromi Sakamoto, Hiroki Sasaki, Masaru Katoh, Hiroshi Mizushima, Tsutomu Ohta
  Staff Scientist: Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Tokuki Sakiyama
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Kazuhiko Mori, Yoshiaki Miura, Takebumi Usui
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Tetsuya Ueda
  Trainee Satoshi Yajima
  Assisting Staff: Sumiko Ohnami, Chikako Tanabe, Kimiko Yoshida, Michiko Nishigaki, Mizuko Hirokawa, Akiko Kobayashi

Radiobiology Division

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

Carcinogenesis Division

Chief: Toshikazu Ushijima
  Section Head: Kazuaki Miyamoto, Eriko Okochi
  Staff Scientist: Satoshi Yamashita, Atsushi Kaneda, Mami Mihara
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Jun-ichi Furuta, Masanobu Abe, Atsushi Hagihara
  Visiting Scientist
from Abroad:
 
Nathalie McDonell (UK)
  Trainee: Toshio Takada, Haruko Miyamoto, Masayoshi Imura
  Assisting Staff: Tomoko Nomoto, Yukiko Yagi, Ayako Hasegawa

Section for Studies on Metastasis

Section Head: Takahiro Ochiya
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Hideo Sasaki, Takumi Teratani
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Makiko Kono, Yoshiko Minakuchi
  Assisting Staff: Kaoru Yoshida, Kazumi Kimura, Masako Hosoda, Manami Ando

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
    Other fellowship: Mari Masuda
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Tomoko Maruyama
  Trainee: Mika Yageta, Yuko Nate, Kana Isogai, Motoi Ohba, Takeshi Aoyama

DNA Methylation and Genome Function Project

Project Leader: Masahiko Shiraishi
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Maki Saito
  Visiting Scientist
from Abroad:
 
Adam J. Oates (UK)
  Trainee: Ken Tachibana
  Assisting Staff: Kumiko Tanaka

Cancer Proteomics Project

Project Leader: Tesshi Yamada
  Section Head: Tadashi Kondo
  Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino)
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Masahiro Seike, Yasuharu Mori, Kazuyasu Fujii, Nobuhiro Nitori, Hideki Yokoo
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Kazufumi Honda, Masashi Idogawa
  Assisting Staff: Reiko Hayashi, Ayaka Miura, Fumi Kiya, Yoshie Ishiyama, Ayako Ichikawa, Kyoko Murai

Tumor Endocrinology Project

Project Leader: Toshihiko Tsukada
  Staff Scientist: Naganari Ohkura
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Keiichi Ohshima, Hiroko Yaguchi
  Trainee: Maho Takahashi, Akemi Yamamoto
  Assisting Staff: Yuko Nagamura

Cancer Genomics Project

Project Leader: Misao Ohki
  Staff Scientist: Fumie Hosoda, Yasuhito Arai
  Assisting Staff: Michiyo Fukushima, Naoko Fujisawa

Cancer Prevention Basic Research Project

Project Leader: Keiji Wakabayashi (acting)
  Section Head: Masahiko Watanabe
  Staff Scientist: Mami Takahashi, Atsuko Tada, Takeji Takamura-Enya
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Yutaka Shoji, Bunsyo Shiotani, Tsuyoshi Nakano
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Yukari Totsuka, Satoshi Matsubara, Takashi Kanazawa, Kotaro Koyama
  Trainee: Rena Nishigaki, Kazuyuki Tachibana
  Assisting Staff: Yuko Hirashima, Yurika Teramoto, Yuki Mori, Tamami Hirabayashi, Naoaki Uchiya, Yuko Hibiya, Naoko Niho, Mika Kawamura

Cancer Transcriptome Project

Project Leader: Hitoshi Ichikawa
  Staff Scientist: Jun Yasuda
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Tomohito Yagi
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Sachiyo Mitani

Pathology Division East

Chief: Atsushi Ochiai
  Section Head: Takahiro Hasebe, Gen-ichiro Ishii
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Keiji Kodama, Masato Goya, Shin-ichi Miyamoto, Takafumi Sangai, Masae Ohichi
  Visiting Scientist
from Abroad:
 
Lim Sang Chul (Korea)
  Trainee: Yasuyuki Aoyagi, Zhang S C (China)
  Assisting Staff: Chie Okunura, Yoko Okuhara, Motoko Suzaki

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division

Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane
  Section Head: Tomoyuki Hanaoka
  Staff Scientist: Manami Inoue
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Shizuka Sasazuki, Motoki Iwasaki, Tetsuya Otani, Tsutomu Miura
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
from Abroad:
 
Minatsu Kobayashi
Mi Kyung Kim (Korea)
  Trainee: Yoshiko Takahashi, Ai Montani, Helena Yukari Adachi (Brazil)
  Assisting Staff: Toyoko Matsumoto, Miyako Konishi, Yuko Iwatare, Chieko Kanai, Keiko Kimura, Mayumi Takahashi, Hiroko Hashimoto, Michiyo Hosokawa, Kayo Ohashi

Investigative Treatment Division

Chief: Yasuhiro Matsumura
  Section Head: Tsutomu Ogura, Manabu Muto (acting)
  Staff Scientist: Kenji Sugiyama (acting), Yukiko Kurashima
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Resident Fellowship:
 
Atsuhiro Kishimoto, Genichi Kusakai, Lu Jie (China), Hisayuki Matsushita
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Yoshiyuki Ishii
  Trainee: Atsushi Suzuki
  Assisting Staff: Kazumi Arikawa, Naomi Ogasawara, 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, Yutaka Matsuoka, Shimako Suzuki, Koji Taniguchi, Eisho Yoshikawa, Miwako Kashiwakura
  Visiting Scientist
from Japan:
 
Hitoshi Okamura, Yoshie Okano
  Trainee: Nobuya Akizuki, Yuko Okamura, Maiko Fujimori
  Assisting Staff: Ryoko Katayama, Yuko Kojima, Yurie Sugihara, Nobue Taguchi, Yukiko Kozaki

Central RI Laboratory

Section Head: Shumpei Ohnami

Central Animal Laboratory

Section Head: Kazuyoshi Yanagihara
  Assisting Staff: Teruo Komatsu, Kotomi Ohtsubo, Misato Takigahira, Masashi Yasuda, Takeshi Shibuya, Haruna Higuchi, Yutaka Hukushima, Tasuku Sangu, Makoto Satoh, Koharu Yanoto