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Although recent progress in cardiovascular medicine has introduced major scientific and technological breakthroughs, heart disease has been the second cause of death in Japan and the leading cause of death in the entire world. The Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Juntendo University has actively treated patients with wide variety of cardiovascular disease. We have also conducted a wide spectrum of basic and clinical research to address this public health problem. Basic research involves cardiovascular physiology, pathology, molecular and vascular biology, and lipidology. Clinical research involves clinical epidemiology and clinical studies that occurs in clinical laboratory, and clinical trials. Graduate school of our department aims for researches which are based on clinical hypothesis and significance. Fellows can choose their own research theses with reference to variety of research topics listed below, and are expected to obtain competence in basic and clinical knowledge in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

Faculty & Staff

Chairman and Professor:
Tohru Minamino
Professor:
Masataka Sumiyoshi, Katsumi Miyauchi
Associate Professor:
Satoru Suwa, Takashi Tokano, Hiroshi Iwata, Koichiro Aihara, Kikuo Isoda, Kenji Inoue, Shinya Okazaki, Hakuoh Konishi, Shinichiro Fujimoto, Takatoshi Kasai, Ken Yokoyama, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Tomotaka Dohi, Makoto Hiki, Manabu Ogita, Sakiko Miyazaki, Tadashi Miyazaki, Hidemori Hayashi, Yuya Matsue, Yumiko Kurihara, Takafumi Iesaki, Youichi Katoh, Kosuke Fukao, Keiko Goto, Yuji Nishizaki, Ryo Naito, Nobuyuki Kagiyama
Assistant Professor:
Atsushi Yamada, Hiroshi Tamura, Kenji Yaginuma, Miho Yokoyama, Haruna Tabuchi, Iwao Okai, Naozumi Kubota, Kazuhisa Takamura, Yoshiteru Katoh, Fuminori Odagiri, Yoshifumi Fukushima, Kiyoshi Takasu, Masaru Hiki, Hiromichi Osaka, Shinichiro Doi, Tomoyuki Shiozawa, Yusuke Joki, Hideki Wada, Dai Ozaki, Hirohisa Endo, Shohei Ouchi, Takeshi Wada, Shintaro Takano, Takao Kato, Jun Shitara, Hiroki Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Kunimoto, Shoichiro Yatsu, Masayuki Shiozaki, Takehiro Funamizu, Yurina Sugita

Research Topics

Atherosclerosis & Vascular Biology:
Basic and clinical investigation for the mechanisms of progression and regression of atherosclerosis as well as restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention

Evaluation of inflammatory markers such as cytokines, chemokines and adipokines for initiation and development of atherosclerosis in patients with coronary artery disease

Vascular endothelial function in patient with coronary artery disease in association with dyslipidemia or glucose intolerance

Vascular tone regulation in disease model animal such as atherosclerotic or diabetic animal

Development of atherosclerosis in genetically modified mice model

Bone marrow stromal cells and smooth muscle progenitor cells in development of atherosclerosis

Clinical Epidemiology & Clinical Trials:
Long-term prognosis of Japanese patients with coronary artery disease and its association with various risk factors

Effects of drug intervention such as statins, angiotensin receptor antagonists or calcium channel blockers and anti-diabetic agents on cardiac function and prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease

Clinical relevance of sleep apnea syndrome and cardiac function

Effect of excise therapy on atherosclerosis or lipid metabolism and efficacy of cardiac rehabilitation therapy after myocardial infarction

Development of new treatment strategy for heart failure

Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology:
Therapeutic effect of catheter ablation and implantable cardioverter defibrillator for treatment of patients with atrial or ventricular arrhythmias

Efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with advanced heart failure

Experimental study for the mechanisms of atrial remodeling

Cardiovascular Imaging:
Intravascular ultrasound evaluation of coronary plaque in patients with coronary artery disease

Coronary artery imaging with multislice computed tomography

Atherosclerosis imaging by MRI

Cardiovascular Pathology:
Pathogenesis and classification of cardiomyopathies and research in “Takotsubo” cardiomyopathy

Pathological examination of various clinical specimens in patients with cardiovascular disease

Contact information

Please write or e-mail to

Tohru Minamino, Professor and Chairman
Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine

Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421 Japan
E-mail:t.minamino@juntendo.ac.jp

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