Laboratory of Organic Synthesisand Medicinal Chemistry

Searching for chemical compounds to create new drugs

With the number of people suffering from cancer, osteoporosis and other aging-related diseases rising dramatically in Japan, extending people’s healthy life expectancy and improving their quality of life have become important goals. Our laboratory focuses on brain diseases, which are a major disease category in the 21st century, in the search for synthesized chemical compounds to use in drugs for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

College of Systems Engineering and Science Department of Bioscience & Engineering / Graduate School of Engineering and Science（Master's Program） Systems Engineering and Science / Graduate School of Engineering and Science（Doctor's Program） Functional Control Systems Course

Faculty Name

SUHARA, Yoshitomo

Keyword

Dementia,Drug development,Organic synthesis,Alzheimer’s disease

Laboratory location

No.6 Building OMIYA Campus 2F 6208-1

This lab is for this SDG activity:

STUDY FIELDS

Pharmaceutics
Chemistry
Life science

FOR SOCIETY

One of our goals is being able to regenerate cranial nerves. This could lead to an effective treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, which has so far eluded the medical profession.

RESEARCH THEMES

Creating low-molecular compounds to induce differentiation of neural stem cells into neurons
Creating new chemical compounds that act on nuclear receptors
Synthesizing collagen-like compounds from β‐amino acids