Tokyo Women's Medical University

Graduate School of Medical Science

Surgical Pathology

About us

Welcome to the home page of Department of Surgical Pathology, TWMU. We are working on various clinicopathological studies and pathological diagnoses.

Research

1. Clinicopathological study of renal neoplasm：Translocation-associated, enzyme-deficient and dialysis-associated renal neoplasms
2. Tumor cell biology：Mechanism of cancer invasion and metastasis, abnormality of cell polarity
3. Neuromuscular disorders：Studies on fukutin, a responsible gene of Fukuyama type muscular dystrophy, and morphology and molecular pathology on neurodegenerative diseases
4. Studies on glomerular diseases: Clinicopathological studies on various glomerular diseases using biopsied specimens, including materials after renal transplantation.
5. Studies on cardiovascular diseases: Pathogenic mechanism of cardiomyopathy using animal model and human biopsy and autopsy tissue samples
6. Various collaborations are ongoing with the other basic and clinical departments.

Faculty

Yoji Nagashima (Professor & Chairman) taking charge of 1, 2 and 6
Tomoko Yamamoto (Associate Professor) taking charge of 3 and 6
Sekiko Taneda (Associate Professor) taking charge of 1, 4 and 6
Kenta Uto (Assistant Professor) taking charge of 5 and 6
Saeko Yoshizawa (Assistant Professor) taking charge of 5 and 6
Naoko Ito (Assistant Professor) taking charge of 4 and 6

Related links

Research Achievements Database

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