Development of a safe and effective toxin-based gene therapy for the liver cancer

Elucidating a key mechanism underlying cancer invasion/metastasis: Discovery of a unique hydroxylase “PLOD2” essential to the functional activation of integrin on cancer cells.

Discovery of the protective effect of a plant-based compound against periodontitis: Report by a graduate student and other researchers at Niigata University and Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Development of a diagnostic and severity marker for Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: Serum RIP3 measurement shown to be a useful testing method

Non-communicable diseases and nursing care need examined through the medical big data of Sanjo City: Regular exercise can reduce diabetic patient risk of having to need nursing care to the same as that of non-diabetics

Administration of rice endosperm protein to juvenile suppresses development of obesity and associated kidney diseases in adulthood

Development of "a novel cell therapeutic approach using peripheral blood mononuclear cells" for ischemic stroke

Tackling a refractory neurological disorder: A new mouse model of vanishing white matter disease was established

Identification of a new target for the treatment of endometrial cancer: Growth of endometrial cancer stem cells suppressed by aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors, known as anti-alcoholism drugs, as well as glucose uptake inhibitors