医療工学研究部門：Division of Biomedical Engineering
Research Advantage
- Materials Engineering: Development of wound dressings and hygiene materials with infection-preventive properties, and of biomaterials for regenerative medicine such as cells / growth factors / DNA carriers.
- Tissue Engineering: Development of three-dimensional artificial tissues, and organ-on-a-chip / organoid.
- Animal Genetic Engineering: Development of a simple method for creating genetically modified animal models.
Staff
- 客員研究員 秦 裕樹
Visiting Research Fellow Yuuki HATA
Mission
The mission of our division is to conduct medical engineering research with the objective of addressing various medical problems, including Defense Medicine by employing engineering approaches. Through basic and fundamental studies, we strive to produce outcomes that contribute to the Medical Corps of the Self-Defense Forces, as well as to the fields of emergency and disaster medicine. Collaboration have been established with other labs at the college. We offer research coaching, lectures, and hands-on training for Ph.D. students in the Graduate School of Medicine, undergraduate medical students, and pharmaceutical officers.
Main Research Topics
1.Protection, decontamination, and cleaning in response to infectious diseases, etc.
Keywords: Calcined calcium oxide from shellfish shells, hypochlorous acid, metal nanoparticles, CB response, personal protective equipment
Representative paper:
- Biocontrol Sci. 2021, 26, 129–135; doi.org/10.4265/bio.26.129(Review)
- Molecules 2020, 25, 3001; doi.org/10.3390/molecules25133001
- Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 3204; doi.org/10.3390/ijms21093204
2. Creation of new sanitary materials
Keywords: Cellulose, self-organization, nanotechnology, molecular sensing
Representative paper：
- J. Mater. Chem. B 2021, 9, 3944–3966; doi.org/10.1039/d1tb00339a(Review)
- ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2020, 3, 3210–3216; doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.0c00206
- Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20, 3620; doi.org/10.3390/ijms20153620(Review)
3. Regenerative Medicine
Keywords: biomaterials, three-dimensional tissue culture, wound healing, biofunctional chips
Representative publications：
- Polymers 2022, 14, 932; doi.org/10.3390/polym14050932(Review)
- Molecules 2019, 24, 4630; doi.org/10.3390/molecules24244630(Review)
- Sci. Rep. 2019, 9, 7797; doi.org/10.1038/s41598–019–44113–6
4. Applications of genetic engineering technology
Keywords: Genome editing, gene delivery, model animals
Representative papers：
- Cells 2020, 9, 799; doi.org/10.3390/cells9040799(Review)
- IUBMB Life 2019, 71, 835–844; doi.org/10.1002/iub.2004
- Genome Biol. 2018, 19, 25; doi.org/10.1186/s13059–018–1400–x
