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List of Researchers in 2004


[  Research Institute (Tsukiji Campus)  ]


Directors

Director: Setsuo Hirohashi
  Deputy Director: Keiji Wakabayashi
  Assisting Staff: Nobuko Midorikawa, Junko Ezuka, Machiko Watanabe

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, Shigeki Sekine, Akiko Maeshima, Hidenori Ojima, Koji Tsuta, Yuri Akishima
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Tohru Nakagawa, Nobuhiro Nitori, Morio Sawada, Hiroto Katoh, Eri Arai, Hiroki Ochiai
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Michiie Sakamoto, Takeshi Shimamura
from Abroad: Panayiotis Loukopoulos (Australia), Dun-Fa Peng (China), Wei-Xia Peng (China)
  Trainee: Yukihiro Yoshida
  Assisting Staff: Michiko Suzuki, Saori Ushijima

Biochemistry Division

Chief: Hitoshi Nakagama
  Section Head: Mitsuko Masutani, Hirokazu Fukuda
  Staff Scientist: Masako Ochiai, Naoto Tsuchiya, Kaori Hara
  Honorary Member: Minako Nagao
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Akemi Gunji, Etsuko Tanaka, Hideki Ogino, Katsuhiko Nakashima, Kumiko Higuchi, Masako Nakanishi
  Trainee: Atsushi Shibata, Tomoko Yoshida, Masayasu Shirato, Tomoko Okada, Mayumi Sue, Takahiro Oshima, Kazuho Nakamura
  Assisting Staff: Akiko Koma, Ryoichi Masui, Ibuki Kobayashi, Mutsumi Kaizuka, Yukiko Araki, Hisako Okuda

Chemotherapy Division

Chief: Tesshi Yamada
  Section Head: Masaya Ono
  Staff Scientist: Kazufumi Honda, Miki Shitashige
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Yasuharu Hayashida, Tomohiko Hara
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masashi Idogawa, Satoshi Satoh
  Assisting Staff: Yoshie Ishiyama, Chieko Oda, Tomoko Umaki, Yuko Shimizu, Shiho Jodai

Biology Division

Chief: Jun Yokota
  Section Head: Takashi Kohno, Masachika Tani
  Staff Scientist: Ziro Yamaizumi, Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Koji Okudera, Akihisa Sutani, Shingo Matsumoto
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Masanori Sato, Kenji Takahashi, Naoko Nakamura, Yukitaka Katsura
    Other Fellowship: Rieko Ajima
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Shigeru Sasaki
from Abroad Hakan Akca (Turkey)
  Trainee: Kazuhiro Nagayama, Tomoko Hashimoto, Keiko Kajiya, Takeshi Inoue, Masamitsu Sato, Kaoru Toyama
  Assisting Staff: Megumi Unoki, Ayaka Otsuka, Satoko Matsuyama, Reika Iwakawa

Pharmacology Division

Chief: Hiro Wakasugi
  Staff Scientist: Mitsuzi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Yuji Heike, Yoshinori Ikarashi, Takayuki Morikawa
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Masaki Kuwatani, Osamu Imataki
    Other Fellowship: Akira Iizuka
  Trainee: Shingo Matsuda, Keitaro Oda
  Assisting Staff: Keiko Iwanaga

Cancer Medicine and Biophysics Division

Chief: Hirofumi Arakawa
  Section Head: Manabu Futamura
  Staff Scientist: Noriaki Kitamura
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Yasuyuki Nakamura, Hiroki Kamino, Yoshiko Masuda
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Katsuya Chinen
  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, Izumi Miyake
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Kazuki Sasaki, Kotaro Azuma, Osajima Yuko
  Assisting Staff: Naoko Kajimura, Yumi Hasegawa, Tamae Asawa, Reiko Kamata, Lin Jia (China)

Molecular Oncology Division

Chief: Issay Kitabayashi
  Section Head: Hitoshi Yoshida
  Staff Scientist: Kimiko Shimizu, Fumiko Morohoshi, Kazutsune Yamagata, Susumu Rokudai
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Xue-Ling Li, Takuo Katsumoto
  Trainee: Yutaka Shima, Yusuke Tagata, Takito Shima
  Assisting Staff: Chikako Hatanaka, Yukiko Aikawa, Noriko Aikawa, Chie Ohara

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, Namiko Setsu
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masahiro Saito, Masanori Terai
  Trainee: Kei Haga, Yuki Kakuta, Nozomi Sugumoto, Masanori Watanabe, Kai Ezura
  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: Kimio Yoshimura, Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Tokuki Sakiyama
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Masahide Fukaya, Masaki Ohashi
  Trainee: Satoshi Yajima, Noriyuki Isohata, Hiroyuki Ohta, Ayuko Ohta
  Assisting Staff: Sumiko Ohnami, Kimiko Yoshida, Akiko Kobayashi, Michiko Nishigaki, Mizuko Hirokawa

Radiobiology Division

Chief: Yoichi Taya
  Section Head: Koji Okamoto, Masato Enari
  Staff Scientist: Rieko Ohki, Masami Kodama
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Yasumichi Inoue
    Other Fellowship: Takatoshi Karasawa, Wataru Sato
  Trainee: Kazuji Ohmori, Yoshie Endo, Satomi Yamazaki, Kenji Kashima, Tatsuya Kawase
  Assisting Staff: Rieko Takahashi, Kyoko Fujinaka

Carcinogenesis Division

Chief: Toshikazu Ushijima
  Section Head: Kazuaki Miyamoto, Eriko Okochi-Takada
  Staff Scientist: Satoshi Yamashita, Masanobu Abe, Kazuki Moriguchi
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Naoko Watanabe, Kazuyuki Nakazawa, Takao Maekita, Toru Niwa
  Trainee: Jun-ichi Furuta
  Assisting Staff: Ayako Hasegawa, Kuniko Wakazono

Section for Studies on Metastasis

Section Head: Takahiro Ochiya
  Staff Scientist: Takumi Teratani
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Fumitaka Takeshita
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Kimi Honma
  Trainee: Yusuke Yamamoto, Nachi Namatame
  Assisting Staff: Ayako Inoue, Maho Kodama, Akemi Sugai, Shinobu Ueda

Section for Studies on Host-Immune Response

Section Head: Kazunori Aoki
  Assisting Staff: Tomomi Ikeda, Miwa Kushida

Cancer Genomics Project

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

Cancer Prevention Basic Research Project

Project Leader: Keiji Wakabayashi (acting)
  Section Head: Masaaki Iigo, Mami Takahashi
  Staff Scientist: Nobuo Takasuka, Takeji Takamura-Enya, Yukari Totsuka, Michihiro Mutoh, Rena Nishigaki
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Bunsyo Shiotani, Tsuyoshi Nakano, Shigeki Enomoto, Yoshito Takeuchi, Yasuko Matsumoto, Katsuhisa Sakano
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Satoshi Matsubara, Shigetoshi Okubo, Kazunori Sekine, Kotaro Koyama
  Trainee: Eiji Matsuda, Sachiko Hirano, Miyuki Kato
  Assisting Staff: Yumi Miyamoto, Yurika Teramoto, Yuki Mori, Tamami Hirabayashi, Naoaki Uchiya, Yuko Hibiya, Naoko Niho, Hiromi Wakabayashi

Cancer Proteomics Project

Project Leader: Tesshi Yamada
  Section Head: Masaya Ono, Tadashi Kondo
  Staff Scientist: Kazufumi Honda
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Tetsuya Okano, Tatsuhiko Kakisaka, Tomohiko Hara, Hiromitsu Hatakeyama
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masayo Yamada, Yoshiyuki Suehara
  Assisting Staff: Noriko Tanaka, Kano Nishiyama

Cancer Transcriptome Project

Project Leader: Hitoshi Ichikawa
  Staff Scientist: Jun Yasuda
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Masaki Michishita
  Assisting Staff: Sachiyo Mitani

DNA Methylation and Genome Function Project

Project Leader: Masahiko Shiraishi
  Trainee: Ken Tachibana

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-Yageta, Shinji Kikuchi, Daisuke Yamada
    Other Fellowship: Mari Masuda
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Tomoko Maruyama
  Trainee: Yuko Williams Nate, Shingo Usui, Koji Maezawa

Central RI Laboratory

Section Head: Shumpei Ohnami

Central Animal Laboratory

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

[  Research Institute East (Kashiwa Campus)  ]


Directors

Director: Hiroyasu Esumi
  Assisting Staff: Mariko Akaiwa

Pathology Division, East

Chief: Atsushi Ochiai
  Section Head: Takahiro Hasebe, Genichiro Ishii, Yasushi Endoh
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Shichuan Zhang (China), Hiroyuki Maeda, Michio Nakamura, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Akashi Ikehara
  Trainee: Ken Kawaura
  Assisting Staff: Chie Okumura, Yoko Okuhara, Hiroko Hashimoto, Mai Okumoto, Motoko Suzaki
  Graduate Student: Takashi Ito, Haruki Chiba, Atsumi Sano

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division

Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane (acting)
  Section Head: Tsutomu Ogura

Investigative Treatment Division

Chief: Yasuhiro Matsumura
  Section Head: Fumiaki Koizumi, Manabu Muto (acting)
  Staff Scientist: Kenji Sugiyama (acting), Yukiko Kurashima
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Lu Jie (China), Takahito Negishi, Hisayuki Matsushita, Hiroshi Uchino, Kaoru Shimada
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Takashi Minowa, Sayuri Nomura
  Trainee: Shigeki Ito, Kazunori Sato, Eri Nakatsuji
  Assisting Staff: Mitsue Furushima, Chieko Kanai, Naoko Mie, Michiko Tamai, Naomi Ogasawara, Satoe Miyaki, Kazuya Inoue, Kaoru Shiina, Keiko Abe
  Graduate Student: Keisuke Shibuya

Psycho-Oncology Division

Chief: Yosuke Uchitomi
  Section Head: Nobuya Akizuki
  Staff Scientist: Tomohito Nakano (adjunct)
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Eisho Yoshikawa, Makoto Kobayakawa, Naoki Nakaya, Maiko Fujimori
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hitoshi Okamura, Tatsuo Akechi, Yutaka Matsuoka, Yoshie Murakami
  Trainee: Masako Okamura, Ken Shimizu, Masaya Shimamoto, Mitsue Nagamine, Kumi Nakaya
  Assisting Staff: Ryoko Katayama, Yuko Kojima, Nobue Taguchi, Yukiko Kozaki

Central Animal Laboratory

Section Head: Hiroyasu Esumi (acting)

Cancer Physiology Project

Project Leader: Tsutomu Ogura
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Atsushi Suzuki
  Assisting Staff: Miwa Kanehira, Toyoko Matsumoto
  Graduate Student: Yousuke Shimojo, Hisashi Kuga

[  Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening  ]


Epidemiology and Prevention Division

Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane
  Section Head: Tomoyuki Hanaoka, Manami Inoue
  Staff Scientist: Shinobu Ikeda, Motoki Iwasaki, Tetsuya Otani, Shizuka Sasazuki
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Junko Ishihara, Minatsu Kobayashi, Tsutomu Miura, Yoshiko Takahashi, Masayuki Tatemichi, Rie Yoshida
from Abroad: Kyungjae Lee (Korea), Liu Ying (China)
  Trainee: Fumio Okada
  Assisting Staff: Tomomi Mukai, Chikako Nishimoto, Kayo Ohashi, Michiko Okajima, Mie Ono, Tomohiro Shintani, Yurie Sugihara, Izumi Suenaga, Kyoko Suzuki, Masako Yoshida, Mariko Yoshimura

Statistics and Cancer Control Division

Chief: Tomotaka Sobue
  Section Head: Haruhiko Fukuda, Satoshi Kaneko, Chisato Hamashima, Seiichiro Yamamoto
  Staff Scientist: Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa, Itsuro Yoshimi, Satoshi Ishikura(joint), Tomomi Marugame
  Postdoctoral Fellow  
    Research Resident Fellowship: Hiroshi Kawamoto, Yuka Imamura
  Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Wakiko Ajiki, Shouichi Mizuno, Hiroe Nozawa, Takashi Asakawa
  Assisting Staff: Yasuko Iba