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List of Researchers in 2005

as of September 30, 2005

[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: Yukihiro Nakanishi, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Shigeki Sekine
Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Yuko Yamauchi, Masahiro Gotoh, Gen Fujii, Akiko Maeshima, Hidenori Ojima, Yuri F Akishima
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hiroki Ochiai, Noritoshi Kobayashi, Takahiro Yamanashi
Other Fellowships: Eri Arai
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hitoshi Tsuda
from Abroad: Dun-Fa Peng (China)
Trainee: Wataru Yamagami
Assisting Staff: Michiko Suzuki, Saori Ushijima
 
Biochemistry Division  
Chief: Hitoshi Nakagama
Section Head: Hirokazu Fukuda
Staff Scientist: Masako Ochiai, Naoto Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Tazawa,Tomokazu Fukuda
Honorary Member: Minako Nagao
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Katsuhiko Nakashima, Kumiko Higuchi, Masako Nakanishi, Masashi Izumiya
Trainee: Kouichiro Abe, Katsuhiro Fukuta, Megumi Miyamoto
Assisting Staff: Akiko Koma, Ryoichi Masui, Ibuki Kobayashi, Yukiko Araki, Hisako Okuda
 
Chemotherapy Division and Cancer Proteomics Project
Chief: Tesshi Yamada
Section Head: Masaya Ono, Kazufumi Honda
Staff Scientist: Miki Shitashige
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Tomohiko Hara, Satoru Kikuchi
Assisting Staff: Yoshie Ishiyama, Tomoko Umaki, Yuko Shimizu, Ayako Igarashi, Tomoko Oda
 
Biology Division  
Chief: Jun Yokota
Section Head: Takashi Kohno, Masachika Tani
Staff Scientist: Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Shingo Matsumoto, Masanori Sato
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Kenji Takahashi, Naoko Nakamura, Yukitaka Katsura, Mie Moriya, Tomoyuki Hishida
Other Fellowship: Rieko Ajima
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Takeshi Inoue
from Abroad: Dhanalakshmi Sivanandhan (India)
Trainee: Kazuhiro Nagayama, Tomoko Hashimoto, Masamitsu Sato, Kaoru Toyama, Atsushi Hiramatsu
Assisting Staff: Megumi Unoki, Ayaka Otsuka, Satoko Matsuyama, Reika Iwakawa, Rumie Matsumura
 
Pharmacology Division  
Chief: Hiro Wakasugi
Section Head: Kazuto Nishio
Staff Scientist: Mitsuzi Yoshida, Yuji Heike, Yoshinori Ikarashi, Takayuki Morikawa
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Other Fellowships: Akira Iizuka
Trainee: Keitaro Oda, Masaki Kuwatani, Chihiro Kawakami, Yuuki Matsui, Hideyuki Takagi,
Assisting Staff: Chie Meguro
 
Cancer Medicine and Biophysics Division
Chief: Hirofumi Arakawa
Section Head: Manabu Futamura
Staff Scientist: Noriaki Kitamura, Shiho Ohnishi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yasuyuki Nakamura, Hiroki Kamino, Yoshiko Masuda, Yuji Miyamoto
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Katsuya Chinen
Assistant Staff: Izumi Hyo, Sakiko Usuda
 
Growth Factor Division
Chief: Ryuichi Sakai
Section Head: Hitoyasu Futami, Masamitsu Tanaka
Staff Scientist: Takamasa Uekita, Izumi Miyake
Postdoctral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Lin Jia
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Akira Ishikawa
Assisting Staff: Naoko Kajimura, Yumi Hasegawa, Tamae Asawa, Reiko Kamata, Hiroko Tamagawa
 
Molecular Oncology Division
Chief: Issay Kitabayashi
Section Head: Hitoshi Yoshida
Staff Scientists: Kimiko Shimizu, Kazutsune Yamagata, Susumu Rokudai
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Xue-Ling Li, Takuo Katsumoto
Trainees: Yutaka Shima, Yusuke Tagata, Takito Shima, Mika Shino
Assisting Staff: Chikako Hatanaka, Yukiko Aikawa, Noriko Aikawa, Chie Ohara
 
Virology Division
Chief: Tohru Kiyono
Section Head: Masatoshi Fujita
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 Sugimoto, Masanori Watanabe, Kai Ezura, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Satoko Osano
Assisting Staff: Takako Ishiyama, Shinichi Ohno, Tomona Tsuji, Akiko Noguchi
 
Genetics Division
Chief: Teruhiko Yoshida
Section Head: Hiromi Sakamoto, Hiroki Sasaki, Masaru Katoh, Hiroshi Mizushima, Tsutomu Ohta
Staff Scientist: Kimio Yoshimura, Kazuhiko Aoyagi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Noriyuki Isohata, Masayuki Sano, Hiroyuki Ohta
Other Fellowship: Daisuke Tatsuta
Trainee: Kumiko Iijima, Mamiko Miyamoto, Sayu Naitoh, Izumi Nakahara, Ayuko Ohta, Norihisa Saeki, Yasunori Satoh
Assisting Staff: Sumiko Ohnami, Kimiko Yoshida, Akiko Kobayashi, Junko Hashimoto, Megumi Satoh
 
Radiobiology Division
Chief: Yoichi Taya
Section Head: Koji Okamoto, Masato Enari
Staff Scientist: Rieko Ohki, Masami Kodama
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yasumichi Inoue, Michiko Ishida
Other Fellowships: Wataru Sato
Trainee: Kazuji Ohmori, Yoshie Endo, Kenji Kashima, Tatsuya Kawase, Yusuke Yoshida
Assisting Staff: Rieko Takahashi, Kyoko Fujinaka
 
Carcinogenesis Division
Chief: Toshikazu Ushijima
Section Head: Eriko Okochi-Takada
Staff Scientist: Satoshi Yamashita, Masanobu Abe, Kazuki Moriguchi, Takao Maekita
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Naoko Watanabe, Tohru Niwa, Yoshimasa Nobeyama, Yasunobu Fukuda
Other fellowships: Takeshi Nakajima, Daiji Oka
Assisting Staff: Yoshimi Tsujino, Mika Wakabayashi, Yuko Kobayashi, Akiko Mori
 
Section for Studies on Metastasis
Section Head: Takahiro Ochiya
Staff Scientist: Takumi Teratani
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Fumitaka Takeshita, Shinobu Ueda
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Kimi Honma
from Abroad: Agnieszka Banas (Poland)
Trainee: Yusuke Yamamoto, Nachi Namatame
Assisting Staff: Ayako Inoue, Maho Kodama, Akemi Sugai
 
Section for Studies on Host-Immune Response
Section Head: Kazunori Aoki
Staff Scientist: Akihiko Kobayashi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Takeshi Nishimoto
Trainee: Hidehiko Hara
 
ADP-Ribosylation in Oncology Project
Project Leader: Mitsuko Masutani
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hideo Ogino, Akiko Uemura
Visiting scientist  
From Abroad: Sydney Shall (UK)
Trainee: Atsushi Shibata, Masayasu Shirato, Masahiro Abe, Maki Kitamura
 
Cancer Genomics Project (as of November 1, 2005)
Project Leader: Tatsuhiro Shibata
Staff Scientist: Fumie Hosoda, Yasuhito Arai
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hiroto Katoh, Yukihiro Yoshida
Visiting Scientist  
from Abroad: Weixia Peng (China)
Assisting Staff: Michiyo Fukushima, Naoko Okada, Akiko Kokubu, Yukie Kuroda
 
Cancer Prevention Basic Research Project
Project Leader: Keiji Wakabayashi (acting)
Section Head: Masaaki Iigo, Mami Takahashi, Michihiro Mutoh
Staff Scientist: Nobuo Takasuka, Takeji Takamura-Enya, Yukari Totsuka, Rena Nishigaki
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Tsuyoshi Nakano, Shigeki Enomoto, Yasuko Matsumoto, Katsuhisa Sakano, Masaru Terasaki, Masafumi Yamamoto
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Satoshi Matsubara, Shigetoshi Okubo, Kazunori Sekine, Kotaro Koyama
Trainee: Sachiko Hirano, Yusaku Hori
Assisting Staff: Asako Yajima, Yuki Mori, Tamami Hirabayashi, Naoaki Uchiya, Yuko Hibiya, Naoko Niho, Masami Komiya
 
Cancer Transcriptome Project
Project Leader: Hitoshi Ichikawa
Staff Scientist: Jun Yasuda
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Masaki Michishita
Trainee: Aoi Jo
Assisting Staff: Sachiyo Mitani
 
Proteome Bioinformatics Project
Project Leader: Tadashi Kondo
Staff Scientist: Kiyonaga Fujii
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Tatsuhiko Kakisaka, Hiromitsu Hatakeyama, Hidehiko Kuribayashi
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masayo Yamada, Yoshinori Suehara
Assisting Staff: Noriko Tanaka, Kano Nishiyama
 
Tumor Endocrinology Project
Project Leader: Toshihiko Tsukada
Staff Scientist: Naganari Ohkura, Hiroko Yaguchi
Assisting Staff: Yuko Nagamura
 
Tumor Suppression and Functional Genomics Project
Project Leader: Yoshinori Murakami
Project Member: Mari Masuda
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Shinji Kikuchi, Daisuke Yamada, Yumi Tsuboi
Visiting Scientists  
from Japan: Tomoko Maruyama
Trainees: Yuko Williams Nate, Shingo Usui
 
Central RI Laboratory
Section Head: Shumpei Ohnami
 
Central Animal Laboratory
Section Head: Kazuyoshi Yanagihara
Assisting Staff: Teruo Komatsu, Kotomi Ohtsubo, Misato Takigahira, Ruri Nakanishi, Masashi Yasuda, Yutaka Fukushima, Haruna Motegi, Takahiro Koba, Tetsuya Takagi, Tomoko Koike, Ayumi Nakazato, Ryota Kosuge
 
[Research Institute East (Kashiwa Campus)]
(reorganized into the Research Center for Innovative Oncology on October 1, 2005)
 
Director
Director: Hiroyasu Esumi
Assisting Staff: Mariko Akaiwa
 
Pathology Division, East
Chief: Atsushi Ochiai
Section Head: Takahiro Hasebe, Genichiro Ishii, Satoshi Fujii
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Shichuan Zhang (China), Hiroyuki Maeda, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Akashi Ikehara, Shuichi Mitsunaga
Assisting Staff: Hiroko Hashimoto, Mai Okumoto, Motoko Suzaki
Graduate Student: Takashi Ito, Haruki Chiba, Atsumi Sano, Naho Atsumi
 
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division
Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane (acting)
 
Investigative Treatment Division
Chief: Yasuhiro Matsumura
Section Head: Fumiaki Koizumi, Tetsuya Nakatsura, Manabu Muto (acting), Masaaki Ito (acting)
Staff Scientist: Kenji Sugiyama (acting)
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Takahito Negishi, Shigeki Onouchi, Junichirou Kuroda
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Takashi Minowa
Assisting Staff: Mitsue Furushima, Chieko Kanai, Naoko Mie, Michiko Tamai, Naomi Ogasawara, Satoe Miyaki, Kazuya Inoue, Kaoru Shiina, Keiko Abe
Graduate Student: Yuriko Serizawa
 
Psycho-Oncology Division
Chief: Yosuke Uchitomi
Section Head: Nobuya Akizuki
Staff Scientist: Masatoshi Inagaki (adjunct)
  Tomohito Nakano (adjunct)
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Makoto Kobayakawa, Naoki Nakaya, Maiko Fujimori, Kumi Nakaya
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hitoshi Okamura, Tatsuo Akechi , Yutaka Matsuoka, Makiko Koike, Yoshie Murakami, Kei Hirai, Eisho Yoshikawa
Trainee: Masako Okamura, Ken Shimizu, Masaya Shimamoto, Mitsue Nagamine, Yuri Igarashi, Akira Takahashi, Tomomi Miyasaka
Assisting Staff: Ryoko Katayama, Yuko Kojima, Nobue Taguchi, Yukiko Kozaki
 
Cancer Physiology Project
Project Leader: Katsuya Tsuchihara
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Kazunori Sato, Noriaki Hayashibara
Visiting Scientist  
From Abroad: Lu Jie (China)
Graduate Student: Wataru Kuga, Hideyuki Kubota, Ryoko Yamashita
 
Central Animal Laboratory
Section Head: Hiroyasu Esumi (acting)
 
[Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening]
 
Epidemiology and Prevention Division
Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane
Section Head: Manami Inoue
Staff Scientist: Shinobu Ikeda, Motoki Iwasaki, Tetsuya Otani, Shizuka Sasazuki
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Junko Ishihara, Hiroaki Ito, Norie Kurahashi, Masanori Tsuchiya,
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Minatsu Kobayashi, Ribeka Takachi, Masayuki Tatemichi, Yuko Yamano, Rie Yoshida
from Abroad: Kyung Jae Lee (Korea)
Assisting Staff: Yoko Kaneko, Tomomi Mukai, Chikako Nishimoto, Kayo Ohashi, Michiko Okajima, Tomohiro Shintani, Yurie Sugihara, Izumi Suenaga, Kyoko Suzuki, Fujimi Taskeda, Hidehito Takenaka
 
Statistics and Cancer Control Division
Chief: Tomotaka Sobue
Section Head: Haruhiko Fukuda, Satoshi Kaneko, Chisato Hamashima, Seiichiro Yamamoto
Senior Staff Scientist: Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa
Staff Scientist: Itsuro Yoshimi (joint), Tomomi Marugame, Taro Shibata (joint), Yuka Imamura (joint), Kenichi Yoshimura (joint), Kota Katanoda
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Qiu Dongmei (China), Hiroshi Sano, Sachiko Tanaka, Isamu Saito, Yukinori Kurokawa, Toshihiko Kawamura
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Wakiko Ajiki, Shoichi Mizuno, Hiroe Nozawa, Satoshi Ishikura
Assisting Staff: Yasuko Iba