We eat a variety of foods to survive. In order to enjoy our daily meals, it is of utmost importance to produce foods that taste good and are good for our health. For this purpose, it is necessary to understand scientifically what "tasty" and "healthy" mean.

In our laboratory, we are conducting research to obtain basic knowledge for developing "tasty" and "healthy" foods by investigating changes in the state of substances that make up foods, their physicochemical properties, and the interaction between foods and the body.

In order for us to live healthy lives forever, it is important to understand human life phenomena. In order to study human life phenomena, culture experiments using human-derived cells and animal experiments are conducted. However, it is not enough to study cells cultured in culture vessels to understand human life phenomena. Many human cells function as parts of complex, three-dimensional tissues, and tissues are not made up of only a single type of cell. There is also a trend toward reducing animal experiments due to ethical and other concerns. Above all, there are differences between humans and model animals that cannot be bridged.

So how can we study human biological phenomena? To solve this problem, we are working to reproduce the in vivo environment of humans in culture vessels. If we can establish this technology, we will be able to create a dream model experimental system that can reproducibly investigate human life phenomena. By using the model experimental system created in this way, we are conducting research aimed at realizing a society in which people can live healthy lives indefinitely.