大阪大学大学院医学系研究科・薬理学講座 統合薬理学Division of Glocal Phamacology, Department of Phamacology,
Granduate School of Medicine, Osaka University

Thank you for visiting the home page of our laboratory, ‘Division of Glocal Pharmacology ’. My name is Hiroshi HIBINO, the professor and chairman. Our policy is ‘Create and do unique studies that cannot be conducted by anybody’. To address this, we always try to adopt technologies and knowledge from different fields. We are aiming at ‘Only One rather than Number One ! ’.

Each organ is made up of different tissues that stem from three-dimensional assemble of various cell types. Key questions in biology and medicine are how the organism function and how different diseases are developed. To approach this issue requires in vivo real-time detection of local phenomena, which are elicited or affected by cells, and integration of these measurements to physiological and pathological events at tissues and organ levels. On the basis of such strategy, our group focuses on the study for the Inner Ear as well as Drug Pharmacokinetics. We are conducting unique research projects by means of state-of-the-art technologies that are developed and optimized through medicine-engineering collaboration. In particular, “in vivo measurement” is crucial for our study. We also use techniques in histology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and imaging. Note that we have recently begun a project for hearing and neurological diseases.

With three key lessons, ‘Passion, Challenge, and Creation’, we are doing ‘Science’ every day in order to contribute to advances in medicine and biology. You are always very much welcome to our lab. We hope that we can work with you soon!