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List of Researchers in 2006

as of September 30, 2006

[Research Institute]

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, Hidenori Ojima, Yuri Fukasawa, Eri Arai, Naobumi Tochigi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Noritoshi Kobayashi, Takahiro Yamanashi, Wataru Yamagami
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hitoshi Tsuda
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: Masashi Izumiya, Katsuhiro Fukuta, Yasuyuki Kondo
Trainee: Megumi Miyamoto, Motoyasu Hosokawa, Tasuku Suzuki, Chiho Seki
Assisting Staff: Akiko Koma, Ibuki Kobayashi, Miho Sasaki, 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: Satoru Kikuchi, Reiko Satow, Ayako Negishi, Hideaki Ito
Other Fellowship: Lin Huang
Assisting Staff: Yoshie Ishiyama, Tomoko Umaki, Ayako Igarashi, Naoko Takenaka
 
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: Mie Moriya, Tomoyuki Hishida, Ayako Ui, Hirofumi Nakanishi
Visiting Scientist  
from Abroad: Badal Chandra Roy (Bangladesh), Hui Liu (China)
Trainee: Kazuhiro Nagayama
Assisting Staff: Megumi Unoki, Ayaka Otsuka, Reika Iwakawa, Yoko Shimada
 
Pharmacology Division  
Chief: Setsuo Hirohashi (acting)
Staff Scientist: Mitsuzi Yoshida, Yoshinori Ikarashi
Assisting Staff: Akira Iizuka
 
Cancer Medicine and Biophysics Division
Chief: Hirofumi Arakawa
Section Head: Manabu Futamura
Staff Scientist: Noriaki Kitamura, Shiho Ohnishi, Yasuyuki Nakamura
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hiroki Kamino, 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: Yumi Hasegawa, Reiko Kamata, Satoko Fujii, Hiroko Tamagawa
 
Molecular Oncology Division
Chief: Issay Kitabayashi
Section Head: Hitoshi Yoshida
Staff Scientist: Kimiko Shimizu, Kazutsune Yamagata, Susumu Rokudai
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Xue-Ling Li, Takuo Katsumoto, Yutaka Shima, Naomi Yoshida
Trainee: Yusuke Tagata, Takito Shima, Mika Shino, Hiroyuki Kato
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: Rumiko Sasaki, Kazumasa Yoshida
Other Fellowship: Yasutoshi Tatsumi
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masahiro Saito, Masanori Terai
Trainee: Kei Haga, Yuki Kakuta, Nozomi Sugimoto, Kai Ezura, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Satoko Osano, Naoki Nishimoto, Junichi Yasuoka
Assisting Staff: Takako Ishiyama, Shinichi Ohno, Akiko Noguchi
 
Genetics Division
Chief: Teruhiko Yoshida
Section Head: Hiromi Sakamoto, Hiroki Sasaki, Masaru Katoh, Hiroshi Mizushima, Tsutomu Ohta, Fumiaki Koizumi
Staff Scientist: Kazuhiko Aoyagi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Other Fellowship: Norihisa Saeki, Yasunori Satoh, Hiro Takahashi
Trainee: Ayako Nomura
Assisting Staff: Sumiko Ohnami, Akiko Kobayashi, Junko Hashimoto, Megumi Satoh, Noriko Yamamichi
 
Radiobiology Division
Chief: Yoichi Taya
Section Head: Koji Okamoto, Masato Enari
Staff Scientist: Rieko Ohki, Masami Kodama
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yasumichi Inoue, Hirokazu Ohata
Other Fellowship: Yoshimi Arima
Trainee: Kazuji Ohmori, Yoshie Endo, Tatsuya Kawase, Yusuke Yoshida, Chikako Ozeki, Chihiro Ohtsubo, Atsumi Sugiyama
Assisting Staff: Rieko Takahashi, Kyoko Fujinaka
 
Carcinogenesis Division
Chief: Toshikazu Ushijima
Section Head: Eriko Okochi-Takada
Staff Scientist: Satoshi Yamashita, Tohru Niwa, Naoko Watanabe
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yoshimasa Nobeyama, Shotaro Enomoto, Takeshi Nakajima, Daiji Oka
Other fellowship: Kotoe Terada
Assisting Staff: Mika Wakabayashi, Yuko Kobayashi, Akiko Mori
 
Section for Studies on Metastasis
Section Head: Takahiro Ochiya
Staff Scientist: Takumi Teratani
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Shinobu Ueda
Other fellowship: Fumitaka Takeshita
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Kimi Honma, Gary Quinn
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, Hidehiko Hara
Assisting Staff: Kimiko Yoshida
 
ADP-Ribosylation in Oncology Project
Project Leader: Mitsuko Masutani
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Daisuke Maeda
Oher Fellowship: Hideki Ogino
Visiting scientist  
From Abroad: Sydney Shall (UK)
Trainee: Masahiro Abe, Kentaro Tatsumi, Miho Maeda, Shunichi Tozawa
 
Cancer Genomics Project
Project Leader: Tatsuhiro Shibata
Staff Scientist: Fumie Hosoda, Yasuhito Arai, Hiroto Katoh, Takashi Kubo
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Daitaro Yoshikawa, Yuu Nakamura
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, Yukari Totsuka, Rena Nishigaki
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yasuko Matsumoto, Katsuhisa Sakano, Masaru Terasaki, Masafumi Yamamoto, Naoko Niho, Tsukasa Kitahashi
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Tsuyoshi Nakano, Satoshi Matsubara
Trainee: Yusaku Hori, Rina Okubo
Assisting Staff: Asako Yajima, Yuki Mori, Tamami Hirabayashi, Naoaki Uchiya, Yuko Hibiya, Masami Komiya, Ayami Eto, Hiroko Suzuki
 
Cancer Stem Cell Project
Project Leader: Kenkichi Masutomi
Assisting Staff: Mami Yasukawa
 
Cancer Transcriptome Project
Project Leader: Hitoshi Ichikawa
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Other Fellowship: Takahiro Hara
Trainee: Aoi Jo, Robert Nakayama
Assisting Staff: Sachiyo Mitani
 
Proteome Bioinformatics Project
Project Leader: Tadashi Kondo
Staff Scientist: Kiyonaga Fujii
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hidehiko Kuribayashi, Tatsuya Orimo
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Masayo Yamada, Kazuho Ashizawa
Assisting Staff: Yukiko Fujie, Mina Fujishiro, Akiko Kobayashi
 
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
Staff Scientist: Mari Masuda
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yumi Tsuboi, Shingo Usui
Trainee: Masayoshi Nagata, Takashi Obana
Assisting Staff: Tomoko Maruyama, Hiromi Ichihara
 
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, Tomoko Koike, Tetsuya Takagi, Ayumi Nakazato, Kenta Watanabe
 
[Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening]
 
Epidemiology and Prevention Division
Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane
Section Head: Manami Inoue, Shizuka Sasazuki, Motoki Iwasaki
Staff Scientist: Shinobu Ikeda, Norie Kurahashi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Junko Ishihara, Hiroaki Ito, Masaki Tsuchiya
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Minatsu Kobayashi, Masayuki Tatemichi, Yuko Yamano, Tsutomu Miura
Assisting Staff: Ribeka Takachi, Yoko Kaneko, Tomomi, Mukai, Chikako Nishimoto, Kayo Ohashi, Michiko Okajima, Yurie Sugihara, Izumi Suenaga, Kyoko Suzuki, Fujimi Takeda, Tomoko Nakano, Ryuta Abe
 
Statistics and Cancer Control Division
Chief: Tomotaka Sobue
Section Head: Haruhiko Fukuda (joint), Chisato Hamashima, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Wakiko Ajiki, Hiroshi Nishimoto, Tomoko Takayama
Senior Staff Scientist: Koichi Benjamin Ishikawa
Staff Scientist: Tomomi Marugame, Taro Shibata (joint), Yuka Imamura (joint), Kenichi Yoshimura (joint), Kota Katanoda, Tomohiro Matsuda
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Qiu Dongmei (China), Hiroshi Sano, Sachiko Tanaka, Isamu Saito, Yukinori Kurokawa, Kenichi Nakamura, Kumiko Saika
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Shoichi Mizuno, Hiroe Nozawa, Noriko Yamashita, Jun Abe, Akio Ohta
Assisting Staff: Yasuko Iba