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Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria 

Research Topic

The mission of the Department is to contribute to the Global Health by the researches on tropical medicine and malariology.
Main target researches are:

To achieve those targets, following specific research projects are being operated:

Biology and pathophysiology of the infectious diseases of international concern
  • (a) Researches on the development of malaria vaccine
  • (b) Basic and clinical researches on the pathogenesis of malaria and other parasitic diseases
  • (c) Basic researches on water/food-borne infectious diseases in developing countries
Social technology development for controlling the diseases in developing countries
  • (a) Researches on global malaria and parasite control strategy
  • (b) Researches on the control of water/food-borne infectious diseases in developing countries
  • (c) Evaluation of international health cooperation projects
Control of infectious diseases into Japan
  • (a) Researches on disease control and prevention of international travelers
  • (b) Researches on the control of imported malaria and other parasitic diseases
  • (c)Researches on the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic methods for parasitic diseases


Main Staff

Director Shigeyuki Kano
Chief, Section of Malariology Shigeyuki Kano (concurrent)
Chief, Section of Tropical Medicine Moritoshi Iwagami
Senior Research Fellow Kazuhiko Yano
Research Fellow Kanako Komaki-Yasuda
Specially Assigned Research Fellow Masami Nakatsu
Research Assistants Yoshiko Shibata
Naomi Ohama
Research Institute
Diabetes Research Center
The Research Center for Hepatitis and Immunology
International virus infectious disease research center
Project Research
National Center for Global Health and Medicin
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