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department
department
Division / Integrated Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Natural Medicines
Great Departments / Medicinal Chemistry
Website
Staff
Professor TSUKAMOTO Sachiko
sachiko(at mark)kumamoto-u.ac.jp
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.