Staffs
- Associate professor: Kazunori Kageyama, Miyuki Yanagimachi
- Lecturer: Shinobu Takayasu
- Lecturer (hospital affiliation): Jutaro Tanabe,Yuki Matsuhashi
- Assistant professor: Shingo Murasawa, Satoru Mizushiri, Eri Sato, Yuki Nakada, Yuki Nishiya
Educational program
- 1. Postgraduates are trained to have fruitful expertise as clinician and/or researcher who can pursue new finding from clinical cases.
- 2. Clinically available cases have to be studied intensity and new findings have to be presented as a paper.
- 3. Experimental technique as follows has to be learned to understand the pathology of endocrine and metabolic disorders; the research technique of in vivo and in vitro that uses the animal, and molecular biology and gene analyses, etc.
- 4. Postgraduates are possible to perform the research in domestic or foreign laboratories or institutes.
Research program
<Endocrinology>
Basic and clinical studies for hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis
- 1. Molecular mechanism and regulation of bioactivities of ACTH, CRF and CRF-related proteins.
- 2. Biophysiology of functioning pituitary adenomas.
- 3. Diagnosis and treatment of ACTH-producing adenoma
- 4. Molecular mechanisms of responses of HPA axis against stress, feeding behavior and immune system.
<Metabolism and Diabetology>
- 1. Clinical and epidemiological studies of diabetes.
- 2. Evaluation of insulin secretion of pancreatic beta cells and application to the therapy.
- 3. Basic and clinical studies of diabetic dyslipidemia and diabetic vasculopathy.
- 4. Clinical studies of digestion, absorption disorder and diabetes caused by pancreatic insufficiency.
- 5. Studies of clinical nutrition.