Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine
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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
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: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:Efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with advanced heart failure
Experimental study for the mechanisms of atrial remodeling
Cardiovascular Imaging:Coronary artery imaging with multislice computed tomography
Atherosclerosis imaging by MRI
Cardiovascular Pathology:Pathological examination of various clinical specimens in patients with cardiovascular disease
Contact information
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