Lab member

Teru Kanda, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor)　google scholar
I’ve been interested in cancer research since my student days. I was studying double minute chromosomes (nowadays called ecDNA, extrachromosomal DNA) abroad, and I got interested in EBV. EBV and double minutes share common characteristics as episomes. Since then, I’ve been into the virus for over 20 years.
Hobbies: watching professional baseball on TV, reading books, listening to music. Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Hiroshi Kitamura, Ph.D. (Lecturer)
I started my research career with the motivation to discover new phenomena not mentioned in the textbook. I have been specifically interested in the phenomenon of the cell nucleus and studied its stress response mechanism in my Ph.D. thesis. I am interested in the involvement of abnormally elevated NRF2 in the malignant phenotype of lung cancer. Most recently, I have been analyzing EBV strain variation in Asian countries.
Hobbies: watching and playing sports. Born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Michi Miura, Ph.D. (Lecturer)
I began my undergraduate research studying motor proteins. Then, I became interested in viruses that utilize the cytoplasmic motor proteins for infection. I proceeded to the Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, to study the human leukemia virus for my PhD. Oncoviruses persist in human cells by using a limited number of viral genes, some of which are multifunctional. I wish to uncover the mechanistic principles of how viral proteins achieve this.
Hobbies: kitchen garden and skiing. Born in Shibata, Niigata Prefecture.