Departments
Integrated Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Biopharmaceutics

Division
Integrated Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Great Departments
Pharmacotherapeutics

Staff

Professor Toru Maruyama
Associate Professor Hiroshi Watanabe
Assistant Professor Hitoshi Maeda

Research theme

I. Creation of highly functionalized human serum albumin (HSA) and its application to medicine
I-1. Creation of HSA derivatives targeting disease-specific molecules and their application to treatment for diseases
I-2. Creation of next-generation HSA nanoparticles and evaluation of their usefulness against diseases
I-3. Construction of an efficient drug delivery system for intractable cancer
I-4. Development of next-generation cancer treatments using cancer immune regulators
I-5. Development of HSA-based nucleic acid delivery carrier and its application to treatment for diseases
I-6. Elucidation of the intracellular vesicle trafficking mechanism by cell-penetrating HSA and its application to immunotherapy

II. Development of novel treatment methods for disease using medical gases
II-1. Evaluation of the usefulness of carbon monoxide (CO)-loaded red blood cells for anticancer drug-induced depression
II-2. Evaluation of the usefulness of CO-loaded red blood cells for cancer cachexia and its surrounding environment