Staff and specialities
Professor: Shinji KUME
Nephrology, Diabetology, Endocrinology
Associate Professor: Kosuke YAMAHARA
Special Contract Associate Professor: Shogo KUWAGATA
Assistant Professor: Itsuko MIYAZAWA
Assistant Professor: Natsuko OHASHI
Assistant Professor: Shogo IDA
Assistant Professor: Koichro MURATA
Assistant Professor: Sho SUGAHARA
Professor: Toshiro SUGIMOTO (Department of Comprehensive Internal Medicine)
Associate Professor: Masami CHIN-KANASAKI (Blood Purification Unit)
Special Contract Associate Professor: 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.