Department of Biomedical Engineering (Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering)Biomedical Engineering for Cancer
Ninety percent of cancer patient deaths are attributed to metastasis. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop ultra-early diagnosis and treatment methods for metastasis. In this field, we aim to develop systems for ultra-early diagnosis and treatment of lymph node metastasis, which is observed in many cancers. We will conduct preclinical studies and apply them to clinical practice by making full use of several sensitive and accurate imaging methods such as bioluminescence imaging, contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging, micro-CT, and genomic analysis methods such as single-cell RNA-seq analysis and exome analysis.
Staff
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Prof. Tetsuya Kodama,
Topics of Research
- Treatment of metastatic lymph nodes using a lymphatic drug delivery system (development of clinical trials based on international networks)
- Development of immuno-radiotherapy for metastatic lymph nodes using a lymphatic drug delivery system
- Development of the second-generation lymphatic drug delivery system with nanoparticles
- Histological analysis of human metastatic lymph nodes using digital pathology