The goal of the Graduate School of Medical Life Science is to establish biomedical science at the atomic and molecular level as a new field in biology. The aim of this is to equip students with research and development capabilities befitting the post-genome era. As such, the focus of the school’s postgraduate education is on giving students a foundation in “quantitative and technical thought processes at atomic and molecular level” and the “capacity for application and development to medical sciences”.

Research Groups

Structural Biology



Kyohei Arita, Professor
Terukazu Nogi, Associate Professor

Molecular Medical Bioscience



Kohsuke Kataoka, Associate Professor
Ikuko Hayashi, Associate Professor

Bioimaging



Atsushi Miyawaki, Visiting Professor
Takaharu Okada, Visiting Professor

Functional Structure Biology



Hideo Takahashi, Professor
Yukio Sasaki, Associate Professor
Masayoshi Sakakura, Associate Professor

Intracellular Structure and Function



Kentaro Tomii, Visiting Professor
Kazuhiro Mio, Visiting Professor

Biomembrane Dynamics



Tomohiro Nishizawa, Professor
Yongchan Lee, Assistant Professor

Cellular Structural Dynamics



Mikako Shirouzu, Visiting Professor
Shun-ichi Sekine, Visiting Professor

Drug Design



Jeremy R. H. Tame, Professor
Sam-Yong Park, Professor

Molecular Science for Drug Discovery



Yukihide Momozawa, Visiting Professor
Akira Wada, Visiting Associate Professor

Medicinal Chemistry



Yosuke Demizu, Visiting Professor


Structural Epigenetics



Takahisa Ikegami, Professor
Satoko Akashi, Professor
Tsuyoshi Konuma, Assistant Professor

Metabolism and Epigenetics



Yoichi Shinkai, Visiting Professor
Makoto Arita, Visiting Professor
Hiroshi Tsugawa, Visiting Assistant Professor

Computational Life Science



Mitsunori Ikeguchi, Professor
Kei Terayama, Associate Professor
Toru Ekimoto, Assistant Professor

Environmental Factor Analysis



Jun Kikuchi, Visiting Professor
Shigeharu Moriya, Visiting Associate Professor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Tetsuro Kokubo, Professor
Atsushi Suzuki, Professor
Kentaro Ito, Assistant Professor

Immunobiology


Taishin Akiyama, Visiting Professor
Naoko Satoh, Visiting Associate Professor
Nobuko Akiyama, Visiting Assistant Professor

Biopharmaceutical and Regenerative Sciences



Nana Kawasaki, Professor
Kensuke Tateishi, Associate Professor
Tohru Sugawara, Associate Professor

Functional Genomics



Takeya Kasukawa, Visiting Professor
Hazuki Takahashi, Visiting Associate Professor
Tomoe Nobusada, Visiting Assistant Professor