Division of Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nephrology and Neurology

Corresponding:hqmed3@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp
Link to the detailed department page:http://www.shiga-med.ac.jp/~hqmed3/snai/index.html

Staff and specialities

Professor:  Shinji KUME
   Nephrology, Diabetology, Endocrinology

Associate Professor:  Kosuke YAMAHARA
   Nephrology, 

Assistant Professor:  Itsuko MIYAZAWA
Assistant Professor:  Shogo KUWAGATA
Assistant Professor:  Natsuko OHASHI
Assistant Professor:  Shogo IDA
Assistant Professor:  Koichro MURATA

Professor: Toshiro SUGIMOTO (Department of Comprehensive Internal Medicine)
Associate Professor:  Masami CHIN-KANASAKI (Blood Purification Unit) 
Specially Appointed Associate Professor (Full time) : Mako YASUDA-YAMAHARA (Clinical Education Center for Physicians)

Outline of the department

Clinical activities of this division cover all kinds of endocrinology/metabolism, especially diabetes mellitus, kidney diseases including the activities in Blood Purification Unit

Research activities of this division are concerned with clinical and basic science in the fields described above. The main projects focus on:

 1. Identification of the molecular mechanisms of metabolic syndrome and insulin 
    resistance.
 2. Search for susceptible gene(s) for diabetes and its complications.
 3. Study for Mitochondria biogenesis and Nutrigenomics
 4. Identification of the molecular pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy, and the 
    development of new therapeutic strategies.
 5. Identification of the molecular pathogenesis of hypertension and the 
    development of new therapeutic strategies.
 6. Identification of the molecular pathogenesis of kidney diseases in metabolic 
    disorder and the development of new therapeutic strategies.  
 7. Prospective observational studies on diabetic microvascular and macrovascular 
    complications.
 8. Clinical study of bariatric surgery on diabetic patients.

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