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Our lab is looking for graduate students who have a strong will to continue medical and life science research in the future, who are full of intellectual curiosity, ambition, and motivation, and who have a bit of mischievousness to know the unknown truth but are physically and mentally healthy.

For those who wish to continue basic medical research while working as clinicians or plan to work as researchers at a university, research institute, or company, we fully support your decision to invest in your future.

Our grad students are expected:

• To be able to perform experiments on experimental animals, cultured cells, genes, proteins, and metabolites (including lipids) at will
• To acquire various measurement techniques
• To acquire multiple data analysis techniques
• To acquire the ability to think logically
• To acquire the ability to analyze data
• To acquire the ability to think logically
• To be able to plan and carry out research independently
• To acquire the ability to supervise the research of future generations
• To be enthusiastic, sincere, and honest about science
• To have a high sense of aesthetics and ethics

We train and develop such researchers.

Our research interests are on:

• Regulatory mechanism of energy metabolism in vivo by hypoxia response
• Regulation of in vivo energy metabolism by sulfur metabolites
• Mechanisms of production/degradation of phospholipids/bioactive lipids and their functions in vivo
• Mechanism of cellular senescence induced by cellular metabolism
• Identification of cancer cell-specific metabolic systems and search for therapeutic targets
• Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of cellular pathophysiological events by proteome and metabolome (including lipidome) analysis using mass spectrometry

The experimental strategy includes biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, analytical chemistry, and mouse genetics.

Now we're recruiting a few faithful, honest, and hardworking grad students who keep the dignity of science.
Grad students will learn not only experimental skills but also a strict interpretation of the data, logical thinking about what to do next, and finally how to advance their research as independent scientists through weekly meetings (journal club and lab meeting) and daily lab life. You'll also obtain the skills in reading papers and in the presentation.

If you're interested and believe you're eligible, please ask someone I know directly for a referral.

For detailed admission guidance, click here for the Course of Medical Sciences (Doctoral Program) or here for the Course of Biomedical Sciences (Master's Program). You can also contact the admission office at kk-mgakumu5[AT]ml.gunma-u.ac.jp.

Thank you.

Yoji Andrew Minamishima, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry,
Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine