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The mission of our department is to develop biomarkers for dementia and other age-related disorders, and to apply them for clinical use.
To establish effective prevention strategies or curative drugs against dementing disorders, biomarkers, which are useful in detecting or in monitoring pathophysiological changes related to disease statuses, are needed. We explore biomarkers using multiple imaging modalities, including amyloid PET, tau PET, structural/functional MRI, and MEG. Especially, we focus on developing blood-based biomarkers, which are minimally invasive and applicable for a large population. For that purpose, we are conducting the BATON (blood-based amyloid, tau, and other neuropathological biomarkers) project.
Professor | Akinori Nakamura |
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Associate professor | Masahiko Bundo |
Research fellow | Junko Suzuki |
Nobuo Noda | |
Minami Uchida |