Strategic Sector

Research Supervisor

Year Started

Outline

This research field aims at implementing drug discovery based on genome information and preventing and treating diseases according to individual body composition (tailor-made medical treatment). It focuses on techniques which provide the basis for revolutionary treatment and prevention methods related to challenges such as constructing new analysis systems for genome information and elucidating multifactorial disorders and undertaking drug discovery. In particular, emphasis is placed on research utilizing genome information for elucidating and developing drugs in relation to the receptivity and resistance towards highly heritable diseases or infectious diseases. Equal attention is given to investigating the genetic and environmental factors specific to our country for lifestyle diseases, to developing methods for their prevention based on genome information, and to developing techniques for rapidly and accurately clarifying individual differences with respect to drug sensitivity (effectiveness and adverse effects) based on genome information. New highly efficient techniques for processing genome information (SNPs) are also sought in order to provide the basis of the above research areas.

Year Started : 2004

Year Started : 2003

Year Started : 2002