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List of Researchers in 2008

as of December 31, 2008

 
Pathology Division  
Chief: Yae Kanai
Section Head: Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Shigeki Sekine
Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ishikawa (Ino), Masahiro Gotoh, Gen Fujii, Yuko Yamauchi, Hidenori Ojima, Yuri Fukasawa, Eri Arai, Naobumi Tochigi
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Naotaka Nishiyama
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Emiko Chikui
Assisting Staff: Michiko Suzuki, Saori Ushijima
 
Biochemistry Division  
Chief: Mitsuko Masutani
Section Head: Hirokazu Fukuda, Naoto Tsuchiya
Staff Scientist: Masako Ochiai, Hideki Ogino, Daisuke Maeda, Masashi Izumiya
Honorary Member: Minako Nagao
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hiroko Ogata, Kazuhiro Kanemoto, Hidenori Shirai, Maki Igarashi
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Yasuyuki Kondo
Trainee: Norimasa Matsutani, Chiho Seki, Makiko Nakai, Erika Sasamoto, Kensuke Hamada, Daisuke Kurioka, Ryo Ohta, Shihoko Shimizu
Assisting Staff: Mayumi Furusho, Ibuki Kobayashi, Yukiko Araki, Hisako Okuda
 
Chemotherapy Division  
Chief: Tesshi Yamada
Section Head: Masaya Ono, Kazufumi Honda
Staff Scientist: Miki Shitashige, Reiko Satow
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Ayako Negishi, Umio Yamaguchi, Junichi Matsubara, Yusuke Murakoshi, Eisuke Kobayashi
Other Fellowship:   Takafumi Jigami, Mari Masuda
Trainee: Rintaro Noro
Assisting Staff: Yoshie Ishiyama, Tomoko Umaki, Ayako Igarashi, Yuka Nakamura
 
Biology Division  
Chief: Jun Yokota
Section Head: Takashi Kohno, Masato Enari
Staff Scientist: Tetsuo Moriguchi, Ayako Ui
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Hideaki Ogiwara, Akiko Nishimura, Yoko Katsuki, Kouya Shiraishi, Hirokazu Ohata
Visiting Scientist  
from Abroad: Badal Chandra Roy (Bangladesh)
Trainee: Yuko Ishii, Saeko Ooi, Chihiro Ohtsubo, Atsumi Sugiyama, Azumi Tanahashi, Satomi Kudo
Assisting Staff: Ayaka Otsuka, Reika Iwakawa, Yoko Shimada, Mariko Sasaki
 
Cancer Medicine and Biophysics Division
Chief: Hirofumi Arakawa
Section Head: Manabu Futamura
Staff Scientist: Yasuyuki Nakamura, Noriaki Kitamura
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Koki Kabu, Takafumi Miyamoto
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Katsuya Chinen
Trainee: Daisuke Shinogi
Assistant Staff: Izumi Hyo, Sakiko Usuda
 
Growth Factor Division
Chief: Ryuichi Sakai
Section Head: Hitoyasu Futami, Masamitsu Tanaka
Staff Scientist: Takamasa Uekita
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yuri Miyazawa, Reiko Yagi
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Akira Ishikawa, Izumi Miyake
Assistant Staff: Yumi Hasegawa, Reiko Kamata, Satoko Fujii, Hiroko Tamagawa
 
Molecular Oncology Division
Chief: Issay Kitabayashi
Section Head: Akihiko Yokoyama
Staff Scientist: Kimiko Shimizu, Kazutsune Yamagata, Susumu Rokudai, Takuo Katsumoto
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yutaka Shima, Yoko Ogawara
Trainee: Hiroyuki Kato, Chikako Ozeki, Eriko Fujii, Nozomi Takahashi, Marie Kawaguchi
Assisting Staff: Chikako Hatanaka, Yukiko Aikawa, Chie Ohara
 
Virology Division
Chief: Tohru Kiyono
Section Head: Masatoshi Fujita
Staff Scientist: Mako Narisawa-Saito, Takashi Yugawa, Nagayasu Egawa
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Kazumasa Yoshida, Yusuke Zushi
Trainee: Kei Haga, Yuki Narimatsu, Nozomi Sugumoto, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Yuki Inagawa, Satoshi Hasegawa
Assisting Staff: Takako Ishiyama, Shinichi Ohno, Tomoko Shizume, Chie Ogawa
 
Genetics Division
Chief: Teruhiko Yoshida
Section Head: Hiromi Sakamoto, Masaru Katoh, Hiroki Sasaki, Tsutomu Ohta, Hitoshi Ichikawa, Fumiaki Koizumi
Staff Scientist: Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Norihisa Saeki, Aya Kuchiba
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Tomoko Mabuchi
Other Fellowships: Takeshi Nakagawa
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Hiro Takahashi
Trainee: Akihiro Hirakawa, Aoi Jo, Takeshi Fujita
Assisting Staff: Sumiko Ohnami, Masumi Shimizu, Kaoru Nakano, Rie Komatsuzaki, Akemi Matsumoto, Setsuko Ueki, Sachiyo Mitani
 
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: Hideyuki Takeshima, Tadayuki Ando, Miki Katsurano, Naoko Hattori, Ken Gyobu
Trainee: Kosuke Hosoya, Takeichi Yoshida, Tadashi Tomioka
Assisting Staff: Mika Wakabayashi, Akiko Mori, Yuko Kobayashi, Satomi Takahashi, Monali Lahoti, Michiko Fukushima
 
Section for Studies on Metastasis
Section Head: Takahiro Ochiya
Staff Scientist: Takumi Teratani, Fumitaka Takeshita, Tetsuya Ishikawa
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Shinobu Ueda, Naomi Hokaiwado, Masaki Kawamata, Ryo-u Takahashi
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Kimi Honma, Mitsuhiko Osaki, Jun Onodera
from Abroad: Agnieszka Banas (Poland), Gary Quinn (Ireland)
Trainee: Yusuke Yamamoto
Assisting Staff: Ayako Inoue, Maho Kodama, Wakako Kobayashi
 
Section for Studies on Host-Immune Response
Section Head: Kazunori Aoki
Staff Scientist: Yoshinori Ikarashi, Kenta Narumi
Trainee: Takashi Kosaka
Assisting Staff: Atsushi Kondoh, Naoko Goto
 
Cancer Genomics Project
Project Leader: Tatsuhiro Shibata
Section Head: Fumie Hosoda
Staff Scientist: Yasuhito Arai, Takashi Kubo, Yasushi Totoki
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Masashi Miyamoto
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: Mami Takahashi, Michihiro Mutoh, Yukari Totsuka
Staff Scientist: Tsuyoshi Nakano, Masafumi Yamamoto
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Azusa Nakaguchi, Kouichi Nishimura, Ken-ichi Iwata
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Satoshi Matsubara, Naoya Teraoka, Takashi Higuchi
Trainee: Hidemasa Kirigaya, Toshiya Ueno, Ryuichi Ashino, Yoko Matsumoto
Assisting Staff: Yuki Kanemiya, Tomoko Noguchi, Naoaki Uchiya, Yuko Hibiya, Rikako Ishigamori, Reiko Nomiyama, Hiroko Suzuki, Tomoko Araki, Ruri Nakanishi, Yukie Matsumura
 
Cancer Stem Cell Project
Project Leader: Kenkichi Masutomi
Staff Scientist: Yoshiko Maida
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Yukari Takahashi, Tetsuya Kawakita, Motoko Kawashima
Trainee: Naoko Okamoto
Assisting Staff: Mami Yasukawa
 
Early Oncogenesis Research Project
Project Leader: Hitoshi Nakagama (acting)
Section Head: Koji Okamoto, Yoshitaka Hippo
Assisting Staff: Yukiko Morinaga, Ai Sato
 
Proteome Bioinformatics Project
Project Leader: Tadashi Kondo
Staff Scientist: Mutsumi Hosako
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Seiji Kosaihira, Akihiro Morofuji
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Chisato Harada, Shigeru Saito, Harumi Ginya, Masaya Muraoka, Yoshio Kishi
Trainee: Masayo Yamada, Yoshinori Suehara, Yutaka Sugihara
Assisting Staff: Yukiko Fujie, Yukako Tsunehiro, Yukiko Nakamura
 
Tabacco Control Policy Project
Project Leader: Yumiko Mochizuki-Kobayashi
Research associate: Madoka Nakamura, Kaori Taketani
Trainee: Shuntaro Iizuka
Assisting Staff: Sayuri Takise
 
Tumor Endocrinology Project
Project Leader: Toshihiko Tsukada
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Naganari Ohkura
Assisting Staff: Yuko Nagamura
 
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: Munira Akhter, Enbo Ma, Reiko Suzuki
Visiting Scientist  
from Japan: Junko Ishihara, Masayuki Tatemichi, Tsutomu Miura, Yuko Yamano
Assisting Staff: Ribeka Takachi, Izumi Suenaga, Kayo Ohashi, Kyoko Yamashita, Tomomi Mukai, Michiko Okajima, Hotaka Saito, Ryuta Abe, Ayako Toyama, Yuri Ishii
 
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, Takahiro Higashi (joint), Chikako Yamaki (joint), Kumiko Saika (joint)
Postdoctoral Fellow  
Research Resident Fellowship: Yuri Mizota, Hiroko Yako-Suketomo, Zhang Mingji, Yoko Kawamura
 
Central RI Laboratory
Section Head: Shumpei Ohnami
 
Central Animal Laboratory
Section Head: Toshio Imai
Staff Scientist: Tsukasa Kitahashi
Assisting Staff: Teruo Komatsu, Kotomi Otsubo, Akina Higuchi, Masashi Yasuda, Tetsuya Edagawa, Haruna Motegi, Yutaka Fukushima, Ryuichi Seino, Shousaku Takayanagi, Maasa Yamamoto, Ayami Kawashima
 
Directors
Director: Keiji Wakabayashi
Deputy Director: Hitoshi Nakagama
Assisting Staff: Junko Ezuka, Naoko Nishida, Machiko Watanabe