Researcher's Profile

  • Associate Professor
  • Tsuyoshi OSAWA
  • Integrative Nutriomics and Oncology
E-mail
osawalsbm.org
Tel
03-5452-5025
FAX
03-5452-5025
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Biography

August 2001 BSc. Medical Biochemistry, King's College London
January 2010 Ph.D.,Cancer Institute, University College London
January 2006 Researcher, Department of Genetics, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
April 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
April 2011 Research Associate, RCAST, UTokyo
March 2018 Project Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo
April 2023 Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo
 

Research Interests

Based on the conventional nutritional notion, carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids were independently considered in cancer. However, recent researches in cancer metabolism have been dramatically improved our metabolic knowledge of these disorders due to latest understanding of cancer metabolism. Indeed, carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids are inter-connected in the metabolic pathways, through the several key metabolic molecules such as acetyl-CoA and ketone body intermediates partly under epigenetic regulation. Our group reported that hypoxia, nutrient starvation, acidic pH may induce tumor aggressiveness by epigenetic regulation in cancer cells. We found that epigenetic and metabolic changes influence cancer progression, that can be utilizes for the development of novel therapies by integration of genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome analysis.Our research objectives:
(1)To identify novel onco-metabolites (cancer associated metabolites) for the treatment of cancer.
(2)To understand the mechanism of cancer adaptation in carbohydrate/lipids/amino acids deficiency and apply it to therapy.
(3)Latest understanding of “nutriomics” for treatment of cancer. We challenge to develop therapeutics for metastasis and recurrent advanced cancer through the viewpoint of integrative “multiomics” approach.

Keywords

Cancer Metabolism, Systems Biology, Vascular Biology

Educational Systems

  • Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate School of Engineering
  • Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Enginnering

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