RIKEN Center for Brain Science Neuroscience Drug Discovery Unit
Unit Leader: Hiroyuki Kamiguchi (M.D., Ph.D.)
Research Summary

Neuroscience Drug Discovery Unit promotes drug discovery research in the field of neuroscience, collaborating also with the AMED program “Multidisciplinary Frontier Brain and Neuroscience Discoveries (Brain/MINDS 2.0)”. Through molecular biology, biochemistry and AI-assisted histopathological analysis using animal disease models and human cells/tissues, the Unit will elucidate pathophysiology of brain diseases and apply the findings to drug discovery.
Main Research Fields
- Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy
Related Research Fields
- Biological Sciences
Keywords
- Dementia
- Neurodegenerative disease
- Psychiatric disorder
- Disease model animal
- iPS cell
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Hiroyuki Kamiguchi
- Unit Leader
Core members
- Yoko Hanno
- Research Scientist
- Asuka Nakata
- Technical Staff I
- Noriko Ooashi
- Technical Staff I
- Hiromu Ito
- Technical Staff I
- Natsuko Matsuzaki
- Technical Staff I
Contact Information
Email: hiroyuki.kamiguchi [at] riken.jp