RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology
Research Center for Allergy and Immunology Director, RCAI
Masaru TANIGUCHI (M.D., Ph.D.)
Our immune system forms a complex line of defense that normally protects us from diseases. Sometimes, however, the immune system becomes abnormal or fails. As a result, serious ailments, such allergic disorders, autoimmune diseases, graft-versus-host disease, AIDS, and cancer have emerged as important social and medical problems worldwide.
As a unique research institute different from universities or corporations, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI) focuses on the development of innovative research platforms that will greatly contribute to the advances in science and medicine. These research platforms are utilized by researchers and clinicians in various universities and companies, and we work together with them to reach our final goal, to make lasting contributions to the people, medical care and society, by solving immunological problems.
| Laboratory for Cell Signaling | Takashi SAITO (Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Lymphocyte Differentiation | Tomohiro KUROSAKI (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Immunogenomics | Osamu OHARA (Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Developmental Genetics | Haruhiko KOSEKI (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Immune Regulation | Masaru TANIGUCHI (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Cytokine Signaling | Toshio HIRANO (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Immunological Memory | Toshitada TAKEMORI (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation | Ichiro TANIUCHI (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Human Disease Model | Fumihiko ISHIKAWA (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Immune Diversity | Ji-Yang WANG (Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Immunochaperones | Heiichiro UDONO (M.D., Ph. D.) |
| Laboratory for Mucosal Immunity | Sidonia FAGARASAN (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Lymphocyte Development | Hiroshi KAWAMOTO (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Epithelial Immunobiology | Hiroshi OHNO (M.D.,Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Innate Cellular Immunity | Masato TANAKA (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Host Defense | Tsuneyasu KAISHO (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Dendritic Cell Immunobiology | Katsuaki SATO (Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Vaccine Design | Yasuyuki ISHII (Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Infectious Immunity | Satoshi ISHIDO (M.D.,Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Immunogenetics | Hisahiro YOSHIDA (Ph.D.) |
| Laboratory for Cellular Systems Modeling | Mariko OKADA (Ph.D.) |
| RIKEN-TORII Joint Research Team | Masaru TANIGUCHI (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Single Molecule Imaging | Kumiko SAKATA-SOGAWA (Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Immunodynamics | Takaharu OKADA (Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Cellular Immunotherapy | Shin-ichiro FUJII(M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Immune Homeostasis | Shohei HORI (Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Immunoepigenetics | Miguel VIDAL (Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Thymic Environment | Willem van EWIJK (Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Immunoinformatics | S. Sujatha MOHAN (Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Molecular Systems Immunology | Makio TOKUNAGA (Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Therapeutic Model | Kanako SHIMIZU (M.D.) |
| Research Unit for Inflammatory Regulation | Takashi TANAKA (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Drug Discovery Antibody Platform Unit | Toshitada TAKEMORI (M.D., Ph.D.) |
| Research Unit for Immune Crosstalk | Hilde CHEROUTRE (Ph.D.) |