Science is one of the ways for self-expression. Our members are developing science with full of individuality and originality.
Professor Hozumi Motohashi
[Birth day] January 25, 1966
[Birthplace] Born in Kagoshima, brought up in Sendai
Brief CV
1984 Graduated from Miyagi Daiichi Girls High School
1990 Graduated from Tohoku University School of Medicine
1996 Graduated from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
1996 Assistant professor at University of Tsukuba
2000 Visiting scholar at Northwestern University
2000 Lecturer at University of Tsukuba
2004 Associate professor at University of Tsukuba
2006 Associate professor at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
2013 Professor at IDAC Tohoku University
2023 Professor at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Messsage
I chose to become a researcher because I was fascinated by the way genes work (transcription), but recently I have been interested in phenomena that cannot be explained by gene expression alone, especially from the perspective of metabolism and metabolites. In the past 30 years, the genomes of many species have been fully elucidated, and much information about genes and their regulatory mechanisms has been stored in databases. We are going to dig what the databases do not tell us! This is the most important proposition. I feel very happy to have found a job that I can now devote my life to.
Hobby
Piano!
Favorite words
Chance favors the prepared mind. by Louis Pastuer.
What I want to keep in mind as a researcher and what I want you to keep in mind
Be sure to thank well diggers whenever you drink.
Be willing to dig wells.
Interview
Top page: www.med.tohoku.ac.jp/m-labo/
Interview: www.med.tohoku.ac.jp/m-labo/e0158/
Associate professor Hiroki Sekine
[Birthplace] Sapporo
Brief CV
2001 Faculty of Science (Chemistry), Tohoku University(B.S.)
2003 Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University(M.S.)
2007 Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tsukuba(Ph.D.)
2007 JST postdoc at University of Tsukuba
2009 Postdoc at Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, The University of Tokyo
2012 Assistant professor at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
2015 Assistant professor at IDAC Tohoku University
2020 Lecturer at IDAC Tohoku University
2024 AAssociate professor at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Message
I am challenging to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation mainly using biochemical methods. In particular, I would like to focus on transcription factors involved in environmental responses, including NRF2.
Assistant professor Shohei Murakami
[Birthplace] Chiba prefecture
Brief CV
2008 Faculty of Science (Chemistry), Tohoku University(B.S.)
2010 Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University(M.S.)
2011 JSPS Research Fellow(DC1)
2014 Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University(Ph.D.)
2014 Postdoc at IDAC Tohoku University
2017 Postdoc at Commissariat à l’énergi atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)・Laboratoire de recherche sur la Réparation et la Transcription dans les cellules souches hématopoïétiques (LRTS), Postdoc (en FRANCE)
2020 Assistant professor at IDAC Tohoku University
2024 Assistant professor at Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
Message
I want to spend my life having fun every day, and then I find myself becoming an old man. I enjoy doing research, even though it is sometimes painful!
Hobby
Tennis
Assistant professor(CERA, IDAC) Keito Okazaki
[Birthplace] Sendai
Brief CV
2008 Graduated from Akita University School of Medicine
2018 Graduated from Tohoku University gGraduate School of Medicine
2018 Postdoc at IDAC Tohoku University
2019 Assistant professor at IDAC Tohoku University
2024 Assistant professor at CERA/IDAC Tohoku University
Message
After graduating from university, I worked as a respiratory physician after my initial training. During this time, I was involved in the treatment of many lung cancer patients and became interested in the molecular mechanisms that exist behind refractory cancers, which led me to enter the world of research. Although I still have a ways to go, I am still seeking to unravel the hidden molecular mechanisms behind refractory cancers and drug resistance so that I can lead to breakthrough treatments.
Madoka Kawaguchi
JSPS postdoc
Hideya Iwaki
Medical staff at Department of Gastroenterology
Yusuke Kusano
D4
Eunkyu Sung
D4
Chikara Sakai
D4
Haruna Takeda
D4
Yusuke Uchibori
D3
Hidehiro Hayashi
D3
Kenji Hamada
D4
Mei Omata
D1
Yujue Wang
Research student
Yunosuke Yasuda
D2
Chon Kit Lio
D2
Liu Zi Ying
D1
Kento Iida
D1
Ryutaro Komori
M2
Agatha Yokoi
M1
Shaoting Pan
M1
Nao Ota
Lab technician
Motoko Konno
Secretary