Division / Integrated Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Natural Medicines
Great Departments / Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Natural Medicines
Great Departments / Medicinal Chemistry
Staff
Professor | TSUKAMOTO Sachiko sachiko(at mark)kumamoto-u.ac.jp |
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Assistant Professor | KATO Hikaru k-hikaru(at mark)kumamoto-u.ac.jp |
Assistant Professor | HITORA Yuki hitora(at mark)kumamoto-u.ac.jp |
Research theme
We search for biologically active natural products from marine organisms, microorganisms, and medicinal plants as drug leads for treatment of cancer, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, and infectious diseases.
We isolated antipodal indole alkaloids from fungi of the genera Aspergillus and study their biosynthetic pathways.