Division of Infectious Disease Research

• 03/25/20
  A new oncogenic function of the cell immortalizing enzyme telomerase - Development of a novel cancer treatment -
• 03/24/20
  " Asian- African Research Forum on Emerging and Reemerging iInfections 2019" held in Hokkaido
• 02/27/20
  Development of engineered immune cells sensing pathogenic virus with high sensitivity to prevent infection
• 02/24/20
  Postulated action mechanism of anti-PD-1 antibody for Hodgkin Lymphoma - Transfer of PD-L1/L2 from cancer cells to cancer-supporting monocytes/macrophages through trogocytosis -
• 01/30/20
  Proposal of measures for controlling Zika fever in its endemic areas based on survey results of the Zika virus epidemic in Vietnam
• 01/07/20
  Discovery of the key to pathogenetic mechanism underlying “Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS)”, a tick-borne viral infectious disease: Identification of viral infection target cells
• 12/05/19
  Tokyo University team to start a phase I clinical trial of a new Ebola vaccine
• 11/20/19
  Discovery of a new mechanism for inactivating tumor suppressor genes―Identification of the causes of epi-genomic abnormalities in adult T-cell leukemia and malignant lymphoma and development of new drugs―
• 10/26/19
  Discovery of a pathogen sensor protein that detects influenza virus in the airway epithelial tissue
• 10/16/19
  The study establishes a comprehensive and highly precise method for detecting new viral sequences from the human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1), subsequently obtaining comprehensive information about proviruses from approximately 100 HTLV-1-infected Japanese patients using the de...