This laboratory is a graduate course attached to the Department of Laboratory Medicine of Kyushu University Hospital.

Laboratory News in 2025

• Assistant Professor Setoyama's review article has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology on 7th September.

• Assistant Professor Setoyama's review article has been accepted by the Journal of LabMed Discovery on 7th September. Link is here.

• Associate Professor Kanji's review article “Function and Testing Methods of von Willebrand Factor” was published in the latest issue of [Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine](Igaku no Ayumi), “Latest Findings in Hemostasis, Thrombosis, and Coagulation: Bridging Research and Clinical Practice” on 1st September.

• Associate Professor Kanji's column was published in the section “Research Anecdotes” of Journal of the Japanese Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis on 21st August. The article is here.

• Assistant Professor Setoyama's paper by a collaborative study with the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center has been accepted by Cell Reports on 13th August !

• Laboratory Achivements page is updated on 9th July.

• Lab member page is updated on 1st July.

• We went on a lab trip to Kujyu from 27th June to 29th June. Click here for photos.

• A press release on the results of joint research with IMCE has been posted on the Kyushu University website on 24th June. Click here for details.

• Dr. Naito Yoshinori, Director of Laboratory Medicine, Kurume University Hospital, was invited to give a lecture on "Surgery and Blood Transfusion". Many doctors and technicians from inside and outside Kyushu University attended the event which was a great success on 20th June. Click here for photos.

• Farewell party for Assistant Professor Hieda was held on 5th June. Click here for photos. 

• An interview with Associate Professor Kanaji was published in the quarterly magazine of the Japan Blood Products Organization on 3rd June ! Click here for the article.

• A welcome lunch was held for Ms. Shimoda, an administrative assistant on 23rd May. Click here for photos.

• Lab member page is updated on 23rd May.

• Mr. Fukudome's paper is accepted for publication in the Journal of Cardiography on 22nd April !

• A welcome party for newcomers to the laboratory was held on 18th April. Click here for photos.

• A group photo of the lab was taken again on 18th April. Click here for photos.

• A press release on the study regarding the JCSM paper has been published on the Kyushu University website on 14th April. 

Click here for details. The paper is here.

• Review article authored by Assistant Professor Setoyama was published in [Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine](Igaku no Ayumi) vol.293 no.2 on 11st April.

• A group photo of the lab was taken on 11th April. Click here for photos.

• Articles on the Leukemia paper appeared in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Kagaku Shimbun on 1st April.

• We had a cherry blossom viewing lunch on 1st April. Click here for photos.

• Lab member page is updated on 1st April. Click here for photos.

• A master's degree student Ms. Kurokawa and Undergraduate students graduated on 31st March. They will be assigned to our laboratory next year. Click here for photos.

• The website of the welcome and farewell party of the inspection department held on March 13 has been uploaded on 28th March. Click here for photos.

• A press release of the study on the Leukemia paper was published on the Kyushu University website and has been featured in many foreign articles on 16th March. Click here for details, English is here and here, papers here and  click here for the focus of the paper.

• Assistant Professor Setoyama's research in collaboration with Associate Professor Takahiro Kato of the Department of Psychiatry and Shimadzu Corporation was featured in the focal point of Nature on 26th February. Click here and here for details.

• Ms. Nishida, a master's course student, received the Best Presentation Award at the 70th Kyushu Regional Meeting of the Japanese Society of Clinical Laboratory Medicine on 22nd February ! Click here for photos.

• Miss. Ichinose, an undergraduate student at Tottori University, visited our lab on 14th February. Click here for photos.

• Ms. Kurokawa's master's degree examination was held on 7th February. Click here for photos.

• New Year's party was held at the laboratory on 31st January. Click here for photos.

• Dr. Setoyama's paper in collaboration with Chungnam National University, Korea has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle on 30th January ! Click here for photos.

• Mr. Toshima's degree examination was held on 28th January. Click here for photos.

• Ms. Yamaguchi's degree examination was held on 21st January. Click here for photos.

• Dr. Nomiyama and Assistant Professor Setoyama's paper has been accepted for publication in Leukemia on 14th January !

Laboratory News in 2024

• Year-end party lunch was held at the laboratory on 26th December. Click here for photos. 

• We celebrated Prof. Kunisaki's 50th Birthday on 20th December. Click here for photos. 

• Year-end party of the inspection department was held 19th December. Click here for photos. 

• We visited Sysmex for a lab tour on 9th December. Click here for photos. 

• We celebrated research student Yang Zhang's birthday on 5th December. Click here for photos. 

• Prof. Xiang-Lei Yang of Scripps Research Institute in USA visited us and gave a seminar on 15th November. Click here for photos. 

• Assistant Professor Hieda was selected for the 2024 research grant from the Daiwa Securities Foundation on 13th November. Click here for photos. 

• Lab member page was updated on 12nd November.

• We held a welcome party for a research student, Mr. Zhang Yang on 1st  November. Click here for photos. 

• We participated in the 11th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Extracellular Vesicles in Tokyo. Mr. Kumamoto, a graduate student, made a poster presentation and received the Society's Encouragement Award from 28th to 29th Oct. Click here for photos.

• Mr. Kim Soo-il of Sinotest with whom we are collaborating, came for a meeting and we took a commemorative photo on 28th October. Click here for photos. 

• Dr. Yamanaka and Dr. Nomiyama gave oral presentations at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hematology in Kyoto from 12th to 13th October. Click here for photos. 

• Lab member page was updated on 3rd October

• Dr. Yi and Ms. Lee from Chungnam National University in Korea visited us and had lunch together on 27th September. Click here for photos. 

• A farewell party was held for Mr. Hu, a one-month trainee from Shanghai Huashan Hospital, Fudan University on 26th September. Click here for photos. 

• A farewell party was held for Dr. Miki on 23rd August. Click here for photos. 

• Curry Lunch Party was held on 26th July. Click here for photos. 

• One month of student training has been completed on 25th July. Click here for photos. 

• We went on a lab trip to Kujyu on 13th-14th July. Click here for photos. 

• Dr. Aihara's paper was published in Communications Biology. Click here for the paper.

• Hanami lunch was held on campus on 10th April. Click here for photos.

• We held a welcome party for the lab on 5th April. Click here for photos.

• We took a group photo with lab mambers of this year on 5th April. Click here for photos.

• Lab memeber page and Research page were updated on1st April.

• We held a welcome and farewell party on 28th March. Click here for photos.

• Ms.Ueda received her ph.D on 25th March. Click here for photos.

• The laboratory was renovated on 21st March. Click here for photos.

• We held a welcome party for new members on 16th February. Click here for photos.

• Lab member page was updated on 1st February.

Laboratory News in 2023.

• We went to a lab trip at Kujyu on 3rd-4th November. Click here for photos.

• Lab member page was updated on 14th October. Click here for more information.

• We held a welcome lunch for Dr.Yamanaka on Friday, 22nd September, 2023. Click here for photos.

• We held an Assistant Professeur appointment celebration party for Dr.Hieda with Ki seminar on Friday, 1st September, 2023. Click here for photos.

• After about a month of third-year lab assignments. We had a launch party on friday, 14th July, 2023. Both of them (first second from right) gave excellent presentations ! Click here for photos.

• Lab member page was updated on 3rd July.

• We held a small celebration party for the inauguration of professor Kunisaki on 23rd June. Click here for photos.

•  A new laboratory has been launched on 3rd April. Click here for photos.