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List of Researchers in 2007

as of December 31, 2007

[Research Institute]

Directors  
Director: Keiji Wakabayashi
Deputy Director: Hitoshi Nakagama
Assisting Staff: Junko Ezuka, Naoko Nishida, 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: Wataru Yamagami
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hitoshi Tsuda
Trainee: Naotaka Nishiyama
Assisting Staff: Michiko Suzuki, Saori Ushijima
 
Biochemistry Division  
Chief: Mitsuko Masutani
Section Head: Hirokazu Fukuda
Staff Scientist: Masako Ochiai, Naoto Tsuchiya, Tomokazu Fukuda
Hideki Ogino, Daisuke Maeda
Honorary Member: Minako Nagao
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Masashi Izumiya, Katsuhiro Fukuta, Yasuyuki Kondo, Hiroko Ogata
Visiting Scientist:  
from abroad: Roderick H. Dashwood (USA)
Trainee: Megumi Miyamoto, Chiho Seki, Hisako Fujihara, Norimasa Matsutani
Assisting Staff: Seiko Yano, Ibuki Kobayashi, Yukiko Araki, Hisako Okuda
 
Chemotherapy Division and Cancer Proteomics Project
Chief: Tesshi Yamada
Section Head: Masaya Ono, Kazufumi Honda
Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ikarashi, Miki Shitashige, Reiko Satow
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Ayako Negishi, Hideaki Ito, Umio Yamaguchi, Junichi Matsubara, Yusuke Murakoshi
Other Fellowship: Takafumi Jigami
Assisting Staff: Yoshie Ishiyama, Tomoko Umaki, Ayako Igarashi, Yuka Nakamura
 
Biology Division  
Chief: Jun Yokota
Section Head: Takashi Kohno
Staff Scientist: Nobuko Shindo-Okada, Ayako Ui, Hirofumi Nakanishi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hideaki Ogiwara, Akiko Nishimura
Other Fellowship: Takatoshi Hiroko
Visiting Scientist  
from Abroad: Badal Chandra Roy (Bangladesh), Hui Liu (China)
Trainee: Yuko Ishii, Saeko Ooi
Assisting Staff: Megumi Unoki, Ayaka Otsuka, Reika Iwakawa, Yoko Shimada
 
Cancer Medicine and Biophysics Division
Chief: Hirofumi Arakawa
Section Head: Manabu Futamura
Staff Scientist: Yasuyuki Nakamura
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yuji Miyamoto, Koki Kabu
Other Fellowship: Noriaki Kitamura
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Katsuya Chinen
from Abroad: Hongyan Chui
Assistant Staff: Izumi Hyo, Sakiko Usuda
 
Growth Factor Division
Chief: Ryuichi Sakai
Section Head: Hitoyasu Futami, Masamitsu Tanaka
Staff Scientist: Takamasa Uekita
Postdoctral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yuri Miyazawa
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Akira Ishikawa, Izumi Miyake
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, Takuo Katsumoto
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yutaka Shima, Naomi Yoshida
Trainee: Yusuke Tagata, Mika Shino, Hiroyuki Kato, Yutaka Sugihara, Eriko Fujii, Mie Nakahara
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, Nagayasu Egawa
Trainee: Kei Haga, Yuki Kakuta, Nozomi Sugumoto, Naoki Nishimoto, Satoko Osano, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Yuki Inagawa
Assisting Staff: Takako Ishiyama, Shinichi Ohno, Akiko Noguchi, Satoko Yoshida
 
Genetics Division
Chief: Teruhiko Yoshida
Section Head: Hiromi Sakamoto, Masaru Katoh, Hiroki Sasaki, Tsutomu Ohta, Fumiaki Koizumi
Staff Scientist: Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Norihisa Saeki, Mari Masuda
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hiro Takahashi
Trainee: Akihiro Hirakawa
Assisting Staff: Sumiko Ohnami, Akiko Kobayashi, Megumi Satoh, Rie Komatsuzaki
 
Radiobiology Division
Project Leader: Yoichi Taya
Section Head: Koji Okamoto, Masato Enari
Staff Scientist: Rieko Ohki
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hirokazu Ohata
Other Fellowship: Daisuke Shiokawa, Masami Kodama, Yoshimi Arima
Trainee: Tatsuya Kawase, Yusuke Yoshida, Chikako Ozeki, Chihiro Ohtsubo, Atsumi Sugiyama
Assisting Staff: Rieko Takahashi
 
Carcinogenesis Division
Chief: Toshikazu Ushijima
Section Head: Eriko Okochi-Takada, Satoshi Yamashita
Senior Scientist: Kiyoshi Asada
Staff Scientist: Tohru Niwa, Naoko Watanabe
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yoshimasa Nobeyama, Daiji Oka, Kotoe Terada, Hideyuki Takeshima
Assisting Staff: Mika Wakabayashi, Akiko Mori, Yuko Kobayashi
Trainees: Shotaro Enomoto, Miki Katsurano, Tadayuki Ando, Kosuke Hosoya, Tadashi Tomioka
 
Section for Studies on Metastasis
Section Head: Takahiro Ochiya
Staff Scientist: Takumi Teratani, Fumitaka Takeshita
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Shinobu Ueda, Naomi Hokaiwado, Masaki Kawamata
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Kimi Honma, Gary Quinn, Mitsuhiko Osaki
from Abroad: Agnieszka Banas (Poland)
Trainee: Yusuke Yamamoto
Assisting Staff: Ayako Inoue, Maho Kodama, Akemi Sugai
 
Section for Studies on Host-Immune Response
Section Head: Kazunori Aoki
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Kenta Narumi
Assisting Staff: Kimiko Yoshida, Atsushi Kondoh
 
ADP-Ribosylation in Oncology Project
Project Leader: Mitsuko Masutani
Staff Scientist: Hideki Ogino, Daisuke Maeda

Visiting scientist

 
from Japan: Takashi Kitajima
Trainee: Kentaro Tatsumi, Shunichi Tozawa, Kensuke Hamada
 
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, Hiroko Shimizu, Sanae Nakamura
 
Cancer Prevention Basic Research Project
Project Leader: Keiji Wakabayashi (acting)
Section Head: Masaaki Iigo, Mami Takahashi, Michihiro Mutoh
Staff Scientist: Nobuo Takasuka, Yukari Totsuka, Tsuyoshi Nakano
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yasuko Matsumoto, Masaru Terasaki, Masafumi Yamamoto, Naoko Niho, Tsukasa Kitahashi, Azusa Nakaguchi
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Satoshi Matsubara, Naoya Teraoka
Trainee: Yusaku Hori, Rina Okubo, Hidemasa Kirigaya
Assisting Staff: Asako Yajima, Yuki Mori, Tamami Hirabayashi, Naoaki Uchiya, Yuko Hibiya, Masami Komiya, Ayami Kato, Hiroko Suzuki, Rikako Ishigamori, Yukie Matsumura, Yutaka Shoji
 
Cancer Stem Cell Project
Project Leader: Kenkichi Masutomi
Assisting Staff: Yoshiko Maida
Trainee: Miho Furuuchi, Naoko Okamoto
Assisting Staff: Mami Yasukawa
 
Cancer Transcriptome Project
Project Leader: Hitoshi Ichikawa
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Other Fellowship: Takahiro Hara
Trainee: Aoi Jo
Assisting Staff: Sachiyo Mitani
 
Proteome Bioinformatics Project
Project Leader: Tadashi Kondo
Staff Scientist: Mutsumi Hosako
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hidehiko Kuribayashi, Tatsuya Orimo, Seiji Kosaihira
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Shigeru Saito
Trainee Kazuhito Kikuta
Assisting Staff: Yukiko Fujie, Mina Fujishiro
 
Tumor Endocrinology Project
Project Leader: Toshihiko Tsukada
Staff Scientist: Naganari Ohkura
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hiroko Yaguchi, Maho Takahashi
Assisting Staff: Yuko Nagamura
 
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, Ryuichi Seino, Shinsuke Igarash, Shousaku Takayanagi, Maasa Yamamoto
 
[Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening]
 
Epidemiology and Prevention Division
Chief: Shoichiro Tsugane
Section Head: Manami Inoue, Shizuka Sasazuki, Motoki Iwasaki
Staff Scientist: Norie Kurahashi, Taichi Shimazu, Taiki Yamaji
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Junko Ishihara, Hiroaki Ito, Munira Akhter, Enbo Ma
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Yoshitaka Tsubono, Masayuki Tatemichi, Tsutomu Miura, Minatsu Kobayashi, Yuko Yamano, Sayo Uesugi, Ribeka Takachi
Assisting Staff: Yurie Sugihara, Izumi Suenaga, Kayo Ohashi, Chikako Nishimoto, Kyoko Yamashita, Tomomi Mukai, Michiko Okajima, Satoko Hosoi, Ryuta Abe, Fujimi Takeda-Imai, Ayako Toyama, Shigemi Yamasaki, Tomomi Serizawa, Yuri Ishii
 
[Center for Cancer Control and Information Services]
 
Cancer Information Services and Surveillance Division
Chief: Tomotaka Sobue
Section Head: Seiichiro Yamamoto, Wakiko Ajiki, Hiroshi Nishimoto, Tomoko Takayama
Senior Staff Scientist: Tomomi Marugame (joint)
Staff Scientist: Yuka Hirabayashi, Kota Katanoda, Tomohiro Matsuda
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Qiu Dongmei (China), Kumiko Saika, Yuri Mizota