Professor: Yoshihiko Shibayama, Ph.D.
Keywords: Clinical pharmaceutics, Pharmacology, Molecular biology, Pharmacokinetics,
Cancer chemotherapy, MicroRNA, Functional foods, Social pharmacy
Research contents:
Clinical questions about pharmaceutical care are studied using culture cells, animal, and human samples. Specialty areas are as follows:
#1 Clinical pharmaceutics
#2 microRNA functions in the cells
#3 Study of functional foods

E-mail: siba@hoku-iryo-u.ac.jp

Associate professor: Tsutomu Nakagawa, Ph.D
Keywords: Biochemistry, Pharmaceutics
Research contents:
#1 Identification of the novel, glucose-insensitive nuclear localization signals of ChREBP.
#2 The effect of O-GlcNAc modification on ChREBP activity.
#3 The effect of glycosylation on apico-basal distribution of GLUT2.

Senior Assistant Professor: Yoshitada Kubo, Ph.D.
Keywords: Pharmaceutics, Generic drugs, Dispersion, Stability of drugs
Research contents:
#1 Resolvability and bioavailability of pharmaceuticals with poor solubility is being advanced by the solid dispersion system.
#2 Specialty areas are evaluation of the quality of and stability of generic drugs.