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List of Researchers in 2003


Directors

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

Pathology Division

Chief: Yae Kanai
  Section Head: Tatsuhiro Shibata, Yukihiro Nakanishi, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Tadashi Hasegawa
  Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Yuko Yamauchi, Masahiro Gotoh, Gen Fujii, Arafumi Maeshima, Shigeki Sekine, Akiko Maeshima, Hidenori Ojima, Koji Tsuta
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Akira Tsuchiya, Tohru Nakagawa, Nobuhiro Nitori, Morio Sawada
    Other Fellowship: Hiroto Katoh, Shingo Akimoto, Akiko Kokubu, Ayaka Miura
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Michiie Sakamoto, Takeshi Shimamura
from Abroad: Panayiotis Loukopoulos (Australia), Dun-Fa Peng (China)
  Trainee: Tsuyoshi Etoh
  Assisting Staff: Michiko Suzuki, Saori Ushijima

Biochemistry Division

Chief: Hitoshi Nakagama
  Section Head: Mitsuko Masutani, Hirokazu Fukuda
  Staff Scientist: Masako Ochiai, Tsuneyuki Ubagai, Naoto Tsuchiya, Kaori Hara
  Honorary Member: Minako Nagao
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Kyoko Fujiwara, Akemi Gunji, Etsuko Tanaka, Hideki Ogino, Katsuhiko Nakashima, Kumiko Higuchi
  Visiting Scientist  
from Abroad: Ylenia Suzuki (Italy)
  Trainee: Atsushi Shibata, Yuko Seo, Tomoko Yoshida, Emi Osawa, Masahiro Higo, Takeshi Ohtsubo, Aira Wanajou
  Assisting Staff: Ami Yamada, Ayako Taguchi, Yukiko Araki, Hisako Okuda, Mutsumi Kaizuka

Experimental Pathology and Chemotherapy Division

Chief: Setsuo Hirohashi (acting)
  Section Head: Masaaki Iigo, Yoichiro Matsuoka
  Staff Scientist: Nobuo Takasuka, Akihiro Naito, Ken-ichi Fujita
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Tetsuya Hamaguchi
    Other Fellowship: Shinobu Ueda
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hiroyuki Tsuda, Kazunori Sekine, Shigetoshi Ohkubo
from Abroad: Gary S. Goldberg (USA), Malcolm A. Moore (UK), David B. Alexander (USA)
  Trainee: Tetsuyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Nomoto, Eiji Matsuda, Kumika Yoshida, Sachiko Hirano
  Assisting Staff: Ayako Ichikawa, Yumi Saitoh

Biology Division

Chief: Jun Yokota
  Section Head: Takashi Kohno, Masachika Tani, Chifumi Kitanaka
  Staff Scientist: Ziro Yamaizumi, Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Masaki Nakamoto, Koji Okudera
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Masanori Sato, Kenji Takahashi, Wataru Mouri
    Other Fellowship: Rieko Ajima
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Shigeru Sasaki, Noriko Yanagitani, Keiko Kobayashi
  Trainee: Masahiro Kishimoto, Keiko Kajiya, Kohei Ito, Takeshi Inoue, Masamitsu Sato, Nozomi Okada, Reika Iwakawa
  Assisting Staff: Megumi Unoki, Ayaka Otsuka, Satoko Matsuyama, Tomo Yasuda, Shinobu Iida

Pharmacology Division

Chief: Hiro Wakasugi
  Section Head: Kazuto Nishio
  Staff Scientist: Mitsuzi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Yuji Heike, Yoshinori Ikarashi, Takayuki Morikawa
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Ichiro Watanabe, Aki Chizuka, Masaki Kuwatani, Osamu Imataki
    Other Fellowship: Atsushi Shimizu, Akira Iiduka
  Trainee: Junichi Masaki, Junpei Abe, Tomonori Kaneda, Junichi Sumiyoshi, Takahiro Yamazaki, Kazumi Yagasaki
  Assisting Staff: Kiyoe Koguchi

Cancer Medicine and Biophysics Division

Chief: Hirofumi Arakawa
  Section Head: Tomonari Muramatsu, Manabu Futamura
  Staff Scientist: Hiroshi Nakanishi
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Yasuyuki Nakamura
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Katsuya Chinen
  Trainee: Yoshiko Masuda
  Assisting Staff: Izumi Hyo, Ayumi Ishizaka, Sakiko Usuda

Growth Factor Division

Chief: Ryuichi Sakai
  Section Head: Hitoyasu Futami, Masamitsu Tanaka, Kazuki Sasaki
  Staff Scientist: Takamasa Uekita
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Kotaro Azuma
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Munenori Nekooki
  Trainee: Chihiro Kusume
  Assisting Staff: Naoko Kajimura, Yumi Hasegawa, Tamae Asawa, Reiko Kamata

Molecular Oncology Division

Chief: Issay Kitabayashi
  Section Head: Hitoshi Yoshida
  Staff Scientist: Kimiko Shimizu, Fumiko Morohoshi, Kazutsune Yamagata, Susumu Rokudai
  Trainee: Yutaka Shima, Yusuke Tagata
  Assisting Staff: Yukiko Aikawa, Chikako Hatanaka, Nahoko Sawasaki

Cancer Information and Epidemiology Division

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

Virology Division

Chief: Tohru Kiyono
  Section Head: Masatoshi Fujita, Hiroo Ueno
  Staff Scientist: Mako Narisawa-Saito, Takashi Yugawa
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Keisuke Handa, Yasutoshi Tatsumi
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masahiro Saito, Masanori Terai, Taisuke Mori
  Trainee: Kei Haga, Yuki Kakuta, Nozomi Sugumoto, Masanori Watanabe
  Assisting Staff: Takako Ishiyama, Yukiko Hanada

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, Hiroyuki Daiko
  Trainee: Satoshi Yajima
  Assisting Staff: Sumiko Ohnami, Kimiko Yoshida, Akiko Kobayashi, Chikako Tanabe, Michiko Nishigaki, Mizuko Hirokawa

Radiobiology Division

Chief: Yoichi Taya
  Section Head: Koji Okamoto
  Staff Scientist: Masato Enari, Rieko Ohki, Masami Kodama
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Other Fellowship: Takatoshi Karasawa, Sayaka Tahara
  Trainee: Yoshie Endo, Ayumi Nota, Satomi Yamazaki, Kenji Kashima
  Assisting Staff: Rieko Takahashi, Kyoko Fujinaka, Kazuji Ohmori

Carcinogenesis Division

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

Section for Studies on Metastasis

Section Head: Takahiro Ochiya
  Staff Scientist: Takumi Teratani
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Hideo Sasaki, Fumitaka Takeshita
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Kimi Honma, Yoshiko Minakuchi
  Trainee: Nobuyoshi Kosaka, Yusuke Yamamoto
  Assisting Staff: Kazumi Kimura, Masako Hosoda, Ayako Inoue, Maho Kodama, Manami Ando, Akemi Sugai

Section for Studies on Host-Immune Response

Section Head: Kazunori Aoki

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, Mami Takahashi
  Staff Scientist: Atsuko Tada, Takeji Takamura-Enya, Yukari Totsuka
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Yutaka Shoji, Bunsyo Shiotani, Tsuyoshi Nakano, Rena Nishigaki, Shigeki Enomoto, Yoshito Takeuchi
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Satoshi Matsubara
  Trainee: Miyuki Kato
  Assisting Staff: Yumi Kobayashi, Yurika Teramoto, Yuki Mori, Tamami Hirabayashi, Naoaki Uchiya, Yuko Hibiya, Naoko Niho, Mika Kawamura

Cancer Proteomics Project

Project Leader: Tesshi Yamada
  Section Head: Masaya Ono, Tadashi Kondo
  Staff Scientist: Kazufumi Honda
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Kazuyasu Fujii, Hideki Yokoo, Yasuharu Hayashida, Tetsuya Okano
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masashi Idogawa, Satoshi Satoh
  Assisting Staff: Yoshie Ishiyama, Chieko Oda, Noriko Tanaka, Tamaki Yamano, Kano Nishiyama

Cancer Transcriptome Project

Project Leader: Hitoshi Ichikawa
  Staff Scientist: Jun Yasuda
  Assisting Staff: Sachiyo Mitani

DNA Methylation and Genome Function Project

Project Leader: Masahiko Shiraishi
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Rui Futatsugi
  Trainee: Ken Tachibana
  Assisting Staff: Kumiko Tanaka

Tumor Endocrinology Project

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

Tumor Suppression and Functional Genomics Project

Project Leader: Yoshinori Murakami
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Mika Sakurai, Shinji Kikuchi
    Other Fellowship: Mari Masuda
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Tomoko Maruyama
  Trainee: Yuko Williams Nate, Daisuke Yamada, Shingo Usui, Koji Maesawa

Central RI Laboratory

Section Head: Shumpei Ohnami

Central Animal Laboratory

Section Head: Kazuyoshi Yanagihara
  Assisting Staff: Teruo Komatsu, Kotomi Ohtsubo, Misato Takigahira, Tetsuo Miyoshi, Masashi Yasuda, Yutaka Fukushima, Haruna Motegi, Takahiro Koba, Misako Namae

Pathology Division, East

Chief: Atsushi Ochiai
  Section Head: Takahiro Hasebe, Genichiro Ishii, Yasushi Endoh
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Shin-ichi Miyamoto, Takafumi Sangai, Shichuan Zhang (China), Hiroyuki Maeda, Michio Nakamura
  Assisting Staff: Chie Okumura, Yoko Okuhara, Motoko Suzaki
  Graduate Student: Takashi Ito

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division

Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane
  Section Head: Tomoyuki Hanaoka, Manami Inoue
  Staff Scientist: Shizuka Sasazuki
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Motoki Iwasaki, Tetsuya Otani, Tsutomu Miura, Hiromasa Tsukino
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Minatsu Kobayashi, Yoshiko Takahashi
from Abroad: Mi Kyung Kim (Korea)
  Assisting Staff: Toyoko Matsumoto, Miyako Konishi, Chieko Kanai, Mayumi Takahashi, Hiroko Hashimoto, Michiyo Hosokawa, Kayo Ohashi, Kayoko Nishizaki, Norie Chiba, Hitomi Abeki, Tomohiro Shintani, Maiko Arai

Investigative Treatment Division

Chief: Yasuhiro Matsumura
  Section Head: Tsutomu Ogura, Fumiaki Koizumi, Manabu Muto (acting)
  Staff Scientist: Kenji Sugiyama (acting), Yukiko Kurashima
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Atsushi Suzuki, Genichi Kusakai, Lu Jie (China), Hisayuki Matsushita, Hiroshi Uchino, Kaoru Shimada, Miho Nagao
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hiroyuki Tsunoda, Sayuri Nomura
from Abroad: Oleksandr Minchenko (Ukraine)
  Trainee: Atsuhiro Kishimoto
  Assisting Staff: Mitsue Furushima, Chieko Kanai, Michiko Tamai, Hiroyo Koike, Naomi Ogasawara, Mari Araake, Satoe Miyaki, Kaoru Shiina, Michiru Okano
  Graduate Student: Keisuke Shibuya, Yousuke Shimojo

Psycho-Oncology Division

Chief: Yosuke Uchitomi
  Section Head: Tatsuo Akechi, Yasuo Shima (adjunct)
  Staff Scientist: Tomohito Nakano (adjunct)
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Eisho Yoshikawa, Makoto Kobayakawa
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hitoshi Okamura, Masatoshi Inagaki, Yutaka Matsuoka
  Trainee: Nobuya Akizuki, Masako Okamura, Ken Shimizu, Yoshie Murakami, Maiko Fujimori, Shimako Suzuki, Kazuko Miyamoto, Mitsue Nagamine
  Assisting Staff: Ryoko Katayama, Yuko Kojima, Yurie Sugihara, Nobue Taguchi, Yukiko Kozaki, Tomoko Torihara

Central Animal Laboratory

Section Head: Hiroyasu Esumi (acting)

Epidemiology and Prevention Division

Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane
  Section Head: Tomoyuki Hanaoka, Manami Inoue
  Staff Scientist: Shizuka Sasazuki, Kimio Yoshimura
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Motoki Iwasaki, Tetsuya Otani, Tsutomu Miura, Hiromasa Tsukino
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Minatsu Kobayashi, Yoshiko Takahashi
  Assisting Staff: Miyako Konishi, Hiroko Hashimoto, Kayo Ohashi, Tomohiro Shintani, Maiko Arai

Statistics and Cancer Control Division

Chief: Tomotaka Sobue
  Section Head: Hiroshi Mizushima, Haruhiko Fukuda, Satoshi Kaneko, Chisato Hamashima
  Staff Scientist: Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Itsuro Yoshimi
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Ying Liu, Harumi Kaba, Akihiro Sato, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Tomomi Marugame, Kenichi Kamo
    Other Fellowship: Yuka Imamura
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Miyuki Niimi, Naoki Ishizuka, Hiroe Nozawa
  Assisting Staff: Yasuko Iba