Research field
・Regenerative Medicine
・Artificial Organs
・Cell-Biomechanics

Message
Furukawa Laboratory welcomes people with a wide range of backgrounds including undergraduate students, graduate students, working people and international students. We also welcome people who have left academia or industry temporary but still have the enthusiasm for academic research. Let’s enjoy cutting-edge research together! We are trying to establish technologies for regenerating living tissues in vitro, synthesizing mechanical engineering. Additionally, we are also trying to elucidate unknown mechanism how living cells sense physical stimulations such as tensile stress, shear stress and hydrostatic pressure at molecular levels.

Researches
1. Regenerative engineering of vascular blood vessel and cartilage tissue under mechanical stress
2. 3D organ design with/without scaffolds
3. Rapid prototyping technology for 3D scaffold design
4. Phenotypic controls of stem cells by mechanical stress loading
5. Design for mechanical stress loading device
6. Real-time imaging of blood vessels under physiolosical stimulations

Academic Societies
Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine，Japanese Society for Artificial Organs，Japanese Society of Biorheology，Japanese Society of Alternative to Animal Experiments， The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering、American Society for Artificial Internal Organs，Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society and so on

CV
1998
Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Awarded the degree of PhD　(Medicine)

1998-2001
Research Associate at Tissue Engineering Center, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Ministry of Intermation Trade and Industry), Japan

2001-2002
Research Associate at the department of Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo

2002-2006
Associate Professor at the department of Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering,
University of Tokyo

2002-2006
Associate Professor at the department of Department ofBioengineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo

Awards
1998 FY
Katsuko Furukawa, Takashi Ushida, Toshiyuki Nagase, Hideki Nakamigawa, Tetsuya Tateishi. Award for the Presentation, Japanese Society of Alternative to Animal Experiments

1999 FY
Katsuko Furukawa, Takashi Ushida, Takayuki Nagase, Takuya Noguchi, Hideki Nakamigawa, Tamotsu Tamaki, Tetsuya Tateishi. Award for the Originality, Japanese Society for Artificial Organs

2000 FY
Katsuko Furukawa, Fellowship Award. American Society for Artificial Internal Organs，in USA

2002 FY
Katsuko S Furukawa, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine

2003 FY
Katsuko S Furukawa, The Seguchi Prize, Bioengineering Division, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering

2003 FY
Katsuko S Furukawa, JSME Young Engineers Award, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering

2004 FY
Katsuko S Furukawa, Daisaku Ohno, Award for New Technology, The Kanto branch, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering

2004 FY
Katsuko S Furukawa, Incentive Award, Japanese Society of Biorheology

2008 FY
Katsuko Furukawa, Toshihiro Nagai, Toshiharu Kutsuna, Masato Sato, Tetsuya Tateishi, Joji Mochida, Takashi Ushida, Award for the Originality, Japanese Society for Artificial Organs

2009 FY
Award for Outstanding Paper, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering, Shogo Miyata, Tetsuya Tateishi, Katsuko S Furukawa, Takashi Ushida, Influence of Structure and Composition on Dynamic Viscoelastic Property of Cartilaginous Tissue: Criteria for Classification between Hyaline Cartilage and Fibrocartilage Based on Mechanical Function

2009 FY
Katsuko S Furukawa, Satoshi Seki, Hanako Miki, Kazuyuki Mizuhara, Takashi Ushida. Award for the Presentation, Japanese Society of Alternative to Animal Experiments

Assistant Professor
｜Kevin Montagne

Research Associate (JSPS posdoc)
｜Katie Ryan

Staff
｜Masayo Yokota

Doctorial Course
｜Stephanie Ting
｜WU Andy Tsung-Hsun
｜Makoto Shinohara
｜Kim Jeong Hyun

Master's Course
｜Hiroshi Komatsu
｜Takashi Sugama
｜Morikazu Seki
｜Hironobu Matsuzaki
｜Mutsuo Ogasawara
｜Ayaka Kamada (Royal Institute of Technology; KTH)
｜Ryosuke Nakamura
｜Minki Chang
｜Tomohiro Matsunaga
｜Mehtonen Teemu Johannes
｜Zhang Zhichao, Devin
｜Naoya Ishibashi
｜Junya Kikukawa
｜Akihisa Koyama

Undergraduate
｜Xinyu Guo
｜Akio Asano
｜Takamitsu Goto
｜Hiroshi Funatsu
｜Takashi Yanagihara

Exchange Oversea Students
｜Moriah David(Clemson University, USA) by Clemson’s Scholarship
｜Justin Bacaoat(Clemson University, USA) by Clemson’s Scholarship
｜Yibrehu Betel(Toronto University, Canada) by Amgen Scholarship

Master course graduates
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Defense,　
KAJIMA, NIKKISO, Sony, imcth, TERUMO, OLYMPUS, NIPRO, AsahiKASEI, TEIJIN, Sysmex, SHARP, Canon, NISSAN, MITSUI & CO., IHI, TOYOTA, JFE Steel, TOPPAN, YAMAHA, NTT DATA, KEPCO, Kyushu Electric Power, JR-Central, SHIMADZU, ODAKYU Electric Railway, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Nomura Securities, CellSeed, HITACHI, HITACHI Medical Corporation, TOSHIBA, JGC Corporation, etc.

Doctor course graduates
TEIJIN, AsahiKASEI, HITACHI Medical co., TERUMO, The University of Tokyo, Harbin Medical University, etc.