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Department of Reserch Support and coordination

Message from the Department Director

In order to conduct research efficiently, we need to organize core-facility. We coordinate seven core-facility centers: human tissue processing, animal-model of disease, genome, proteome, cellome, imaging, and bio-bank. Each center is described briefl y as follows:
1 ) Human tissue processing center treats exclusively human tissues to prevent infection.
2 ) Animal-model of disease center establishes disease model with genetic techniques.
3 ) Genome center focuses on identifi cation of mutations in the genome of genetically inherited disease with high-speed sequencer (eg. next generation sequencer).
4 ) Proteome center analyzes protein modifi cations related to disease with mass spectrometry.
5 ) Cellome center aims to innovate new treatment of disease with the manipulation at the cellular level.
6 ) Imaging center coordinates state-of-art imaging apparatuses (two photon laser scanning microscope, electron microscope, etc.) and aims to elucidate mechanisms underlying disease.
7 ) Bio-bank collects and stores human tissue samples obtained from patients.

Director, Department of Research Support and Coordination
Professor, Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine
TAKUYA TAKAHASHI

Biobank Division

It is essential for promoting TR(translational research) to evaluate whether the fi ndings obtained from an animal and tissue culture experiment are actually true in human beings. Human tissue and blood sample obtained at the surgical and diagnostic procedures are necessary for such research. In the past, the research using human samples were limited to clinicians. These days, however, research methods have improved so much that even basic medical researchers can perform such tasks.
But, unfortunately there still remain certain distancebetween the basic scientists and the hospital clinicians.
Our biobank was established as an infrastructre of TR to bridge between the scientists and clinical doctors in October 2006. With appropriate informed consents, the biobank stores human samples collected from healthy volunteers, as well as from patients in our university hospital facility. We constructed an appropriate system to avoid the disadvantage of the patients. At present five clinical departments participate in this system.
Until October 2009, 4,621 tubes of samples from 566 patientsare stored in the deep freezer of the biobank.
Several other medical schools are now conducting the plan of biobank.

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