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The department currently consists of a multi-nationality faculty research team and supporting staff, active in various research areas related to bioengineering and basic/clinical research. The graduate school Ph.D. course provides wide educational experiences in both medicine and biology.
Professor Katsuro Tachibana discovered early in his career the phenomenon of
enhanced drug effectivity in the presence of ultrasound. In the interim 20 year
period, he has been involved to some degree or other in almost all the major
scientific developments in this field. In roughly chronological order starting from:
ultrasound accelerated thrombolysis; ultrasound mediated transdermal drug
delivery; sonodynamic therapy; sonoporation gene therapy; and the use of
microbubbles for therapy. The ultrasound emitting micro-catheter for thrombolysis
therapy that he helped develop is now widely used in the clinical field. His recent
field of research is on the use of nano-sized bubble liposomes for drug delivery
and its bioeffects to various cells and tissues.
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