The Institute of Medical Science, The University Of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo

Founded in 1892 as “The Institute of Infectious Disease”, the Institute of Medical Science with its own affiliated research hospital is Japan's foremost research institute for medical life science. Focusing on infectious disease and cancer, our mission is to translate basic research findings directly to medical therapies.

Important News

Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka is awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2011-06-18)

Tohoku Earthquake Response (2011-06-18)

About support within the IMSUT Joint Medical Science Research Center for scientists hit by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake (2011-06-18)

What's New

GCOE Program Seminar "SymBio's Blue Ocean Strategy... A lesson learned from SCF development" (held in Japanese)
(2012-05-15) [Link] (2012-05-08)

Introduction to IMSUT Laboratories for 2013 Graduate School Applicants
(2012-04-21) (2012-04-20)

Special Lecture by Professor Takenoshita, Fukushima Medical University. "If a disaster hits" (held in Japanese)
(2012-04-24) [Link] (2012-04-18)

Scientific Papers

2012-04-06Scientific Papers/Award

Possible ErbB-NF-κB pathways in breast cancer stem cells for tumorigenesis

Proceedings of National Academy of Science, USA doi: 10.1073/pnas.111327110

2012-03-12Scientific Papers/Award

The Shigella flexneri effector OspI deamidates UBC13 to dampen the inflammatory response

Nature DOI 10.1038/nature10894

2012-02-15Scientific Papers/Award

Regulation of histone modification and chromatin structure by the p53–PADI4 pathway

Nature communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms1676

2012-01-25Scientific Papers/Award

Three dimensional analysis of ribonucleoprotein complexes in influenza A virus

Nature Communications Vol.3, 639 doi:10.1038/ncomms1647

2011-12-14Scientific Papers/Award

A Tecpr1-dependent selective autophagy pathway targets bacterial pathogens

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