In the Department of Pharmacy, we are committed to cultivating pharmacists and pharmaceutical researchers who hold a pharmacist license, equipped with a broad range of knowledge and skills in all areas of pharmacy. We strive to foster individuals who possess problem-solving abilities that enable them to contribute in medical settings such as hospitals and pharmacies, as well as in industry; a spirit of inquiry capable of addressing increasingly advanced healthcare needs; and a well-rounded humanity.
Building upon the foundational academic disciplines shared with the Department of Medicinal and Life Science—namely biology, chemistry, physics, and informatics—we offer an integrated curriculum encompassing drug development, life pharmaceutical sciences, environmental and sanitary pharmacy, and medical and information pharmacy. Our program emphasizes rigorous basic education, specialized pharmaceutical education centered on comprehensive pharmaceutical informatics related to drug actions, and practical pharmacist training through well-equipped facilities and partnerships with medical institutions.
Research Groups & Research Areas
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Drug Discovery Science
The genes and proteins involved in diseases have been uncovered. Today, the goal of drug discovery research is to create new drugs also from theoretical approaches utilizing genome information and computer science in addition to the conventional techniques of synthetic chemistry.
Goto Research Group / Higashi(K) Research Group / Higashi(T) Research Group / Takahashi Research Group /Yasumoto Research Group
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Environmental / Sanitary Pharmacy
Preventing diseases and promoting health are two important missions of pharmaceutical science. Environmental / sanitary pharmacy is a traditional pharmaceutical field of scientific study into human health from a broad perspective encompassing the atomic / molecular level and reaching up to the global environment. On a foundation of nutritional science, food hygienics, public health, toxicology, and environmental hygiene, we continue to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion.
Fujie Research Group / Ichihara Research Group
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Life Pharmacy
We study life from a multifaceted approach at the genetic level, the molecular level, the cellular level, and the organism level, to clarify the mechanisms by which cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, diabetes, immune disorders, infectious diseases and the like are caused, and to contribute to the development of even better drugs.
Hada Research Group / Isohama Research Group / Miyazaki Research Group / Nishikawa Research Group / Noguchi Research Group / Saitoh Research Group / Sato(A) Research Group / Shikano Research Groupp / Tsukimoto Research Group
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Medical / Information Pharmacy
This area will help you to become a pharmacist capable of improving the patients' quality of life by collecting and utilizing information on the effects, side effects and combinations of drugs, and by using drugs properly in consideration of the symptoms and the medication history.
Hanawa Research Group / Kawano Research Group / Mano Research Group / Nakata Research Group / Sato(T) Research Group / Shimada Research Group / Suzuki Research Group / Takasawa Research Group / Yoshizawa Research Group
List of Faculty Members
| Name | Title | Research Area |
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| GOTO Satoru | Professor | Physical pharmacy (Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, Topology) |
| HADA Noriyasu | Professor | Chemical pharmacy (Carbohydrate Chemistry, Phytochemistry) |
| HANAWA Takehisa | Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| HIGASHI Tatsuya | Professor | Physical pharmacy (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry) |
| ICHIHARA Gaku | Professor | Hygiene and public health (Occupational and Environmental Health) |
| ISOHAMA Yoichiro | Professor | Biological pharmacy (airway, inflammation, airaway secretion, Kampo medicine, aquaporin) |
| MANO Yasunari | Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| MIYAZAKI Satoru | Professor | Genome biology (Bioinformatics,database) |
| NISHIKAWA Makiya | Professor | Physical pharmacy Applied pharmacology |
| NODA Toshihiro | Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| NOGUCHI Kohji | Professor | Biological pharmacy |
| SAITOH Akiyoshi | Professor | Pharmacology in pharmacy (Medicinal pharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, Neuroscience) |
| SAKURAI Shingo | Professor | Drug development chemistry (Regulatory Science, GCTP, GMP for Pharmaceuticals and Regenerative Products) |
| SATO Tsugumichi | Professor | Medical pharmacy (Pharmacoepidemiology, Therapeutic risk management, Drug informatics, Social pharmacy) Epidemiology and preventive medicine (Pharmacoepidemiology) |
| SHIKAMURA Yoshiaki | Professor | Medical pharmacy (Pharmacy Administration) |
| SHIKANO Mayumi | Professor | |
| SHIMADA Shuji | Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| TAKAHASHI Hideyo | Professor | Chemical pharmacy (axial chilarity, carbohydrate chemistry, Menkes disease,) |
| TSUKIMOTO Mitsutoshi | Professor | Biological pharmacy (radiation biology, purinoceptor, immunology) |
| WAKAO Rika | Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| YOSHIZAWA Kazumi | Professor | Biological pharmacy (Pharmacology and Therapeutics) |
| HIGASHI Kyohei | Associate Professor | Physical pharmacy (Clinical and Analytical Biochemistry) |
| MORI-YASUMOTO Kanami | Associate Professor | Natural medicines (Structure Elucidation NTDs Leishmaniasis Medicinal Plant) |
| NAKADA Akiko | Associate Professor | Medical sociology (Bioethics（medical ethics, research ethics), medical education) |
| SATO Akira | Associate Professor | Biological pharmacy (Biochemistry・Molecular Biology) |
| TAKASAWA Ryoko | Associate Professor | Biological pharmacy (apoptosis, in silico drug creation) |
| FUJIE Tomoya | Junior Associate Professor | Environmental and hygienic pharmacy (Environmental Health Science) |
| Itakura Shoko | Junior Associate Professor | Physical pharmacy (Liposome, Plant-derived nanoparticles, Extracellular vesicles, Drug delivey system) |
| KAWANO Yohei | Junior Associate Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| KITABATAKE Kazuki | Junior Associate Professor | Environmental and hygienic pharmacy (radiobiology) |
| MAEDA Ayako | Junior Associate Professor | Medical pharmacy (Drug informatics, Kampo Medicine) |
| SEKIYA Shiyuu | Junior Associate Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| ZONG Cai | Junior Associate Professor | Hygiene and public health (Occupational and Environmental Health) |
| KASAI Satoka | Assistant Professor | Biological pharmacy (Molecular biology) Pharmacology in pharmacy (Pharmacology) |
| KOMENO Masahiro | Assistant Professor | Food science |
| MAIDA Narumi | Assistant Professor | Medical pharmacy |
| MATSUNAGA Koji | Assistant Professor | Analytical chemistry (DNA aptamer; Simple analytical method; Microorganisms) Civil and environmental engineering (Simple analytical method; Arsenic; Pathogens) Physical pharmacy (DNA aptamer; Simple analytical method) |
| MUROI Shinichi | Assistant Professor | Pharmacology in pharmacy |
| NAKAMURA Kayo | Assistant Professor | Chemical pharmacy |
| TSUCHIDA Tomohiro | Assistant Professor | Physical pharmacy (Protein science, Liquid-Liquid phase separation, Amyloid) |
| UMEMOTO Kazuki | Assistant Professor | Natural medicines |
| YOSHIOKA Toshinori | Assistant Professor | Neurophysiology/General neuroscience Neurochemistry/Neuropharmacology |
Information on Career Paths
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Chemical Engineering38.9%
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Wholesale and Retail Trade26.3%
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Medical care, Welfare11.3%
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Graduate School6.3%
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Professional and Technical Services3.8%
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Civil Servant2.4%
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Miscellaneous Services2.4%
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Incumbent continuation1.2%
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Non-Profit Organization1.2%
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Education, Learning Support1.2%
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Information Industry1.2%
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Other (Persons Planning on Continuing Education, Studying Abroad, etc.)3.8%
