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Advanced Medical Research Center
Advanced Medical Research Center(SENTANKEN)conducts basic studies aimed at overcoming cancer and lifestyle diseases and translational researches which applies the scientific finding to clinical medicine. It has three omics centers – genomics, proteomics, cellomics –and a biobank, collaborates within YCU and with other research institutions, and promote translational researches. AMRC is also involved in a number of R&D, working with the industry. Our goal is to make our research findings available to the society without delay.
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Message from the Director
The Advanced Medical Research Center (SENTANKEN) of Yokohama City University(YCU) was established in 2006. The assignment of SENTANKEN is to facilitate advanced medical research associated with diseases such as cancer and lifestyle-related diseases. SENTANKEN is focused on basic researches in the field of genomics, proteomics and cellomics, as well as translational researches, which can fill the gap between basic and clinical researches, and promotes not only intramural collaboration but also between government, industry and academia.
Our goal is to make an attractive YCU that can contribute to the community by delivering the research outcomes of our basic and clinical researches promptly to the citizens of Yokohama and by connecting these activities for the revitalization of industries in Yokohama.
Our goal is to make an attractive YCU that can contribute to the community by delivering the research outcomes of our basic and clinical researches promptly to the citizens of Yokohama and by connecting these activities for the revitalization of industries in Yokohama.

Professor Atsushi Nakajima
Director, Advanced Medical Research Center
Research News
2023-05-17
Using a newly developed radiotracer, researchers find that Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity differentially regulate brain function in epilepsy
2023-04-19
A research group led by Assistant Professor Kohei Hamanaka and Professor Naomichi Matsumoto of the Department of Human Genetics in the Graduate School of Medicine has succeeded in genome-wide identification of tandem repeats that regulate gene splicing,
2023-04-01
The research group, in which multiple universities, companies, and municipalities collaborate as project leaders, with Tomoyuki Miyazaki, Professor, Center for Promotion of Research and Industry-Academic Collaboration / School of Medicine was adopted by the National Institute for Research and Development Science and Technology Promotion (JST) in a full-scale in the field of the program on Open Innovation Platforms for Industry-academia Co-creation(COI-NEXT) in fiscal 2022.

Contact info
sentan@yokohama-cu.ac.jp