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Dermatology皮膚科学講座
Staffs
- Lecturer: Eijiro Akasaka
- Lecturer (hospital affiliation): Yasushi Matsuzaki
- Assistant professor: Daiki Rokunohe, Chihiro Sagara, Kazuhito Kogawa
Introduction
For more than 70 years, this faculty has brought up over 200 excellent dermatologists. We are supporting the regional and Aomori prefecture medicine, and at the same time, get internationally high reputation by publishing outstanding research. At present, we, 20 faculty members including assistant staff, doctors, and graduate students, all have high motivation and are enjoying our faculty life.
Research projects
- 1) Gene analysis of inherited skin diseases including epidermolysis bullosa, acrodermatitis enteropathica, and porphyria. We accept collaborations and requests from many institutes in Japan and foreign countries.
- 2）We investigate mechanisms of epidermal differentiation in keratinocytes. We found that PEBP (RKIP) that inhibits Raf kinase induced epidermal keratinization, and are studying this mechanisms.
- 3）We generated model system for investigating molecular mechanisms of photoageing.