Our laboratory focuses on the development of nano capsules that deliver drugs to target sites in the body and cells. Drugs as cargoes can include not only small molecule drugs, but also medium and large molecules such as antibodies, proteins, siRNA, and nucleic acids, including genes. The goal of our research is to develop next-generation drugs, including gene and nucleic acid therapies, drugs that target specific organelles such as mitochondria, and vaccine development, and our staff and students are working together to achieve this goal.

We are aware that these goals have not yet been achieved and that achieving this goal is a very challenging task. We are, however, confident that this research will come to fruition and that it will result in the saving of many lives.

We hope that students will find this research to be exciting, that we will overcome difficult problems together and experience the true joy of research. The goals of our laboratory are to win the Nobel Prize in basic research, to become pharmacists who design drugs for use in the clinic, and to develop drugs for practical research.