Name
  Jun-ichi Furuta
   
Affiliation
 

Department of Dermatology, Doctoral Program in Clinical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba

   
Title
 

Assistant Professor

   
Academic degrees
 

Ph.D i University of Tsukuba j

   
Research Fields
 

Dermatology, Molecular Biology

   
Research Subjects
 

Epigenetics in Human Skin Cancer
   
Academic Society Membership
 

-Japanese Dermatological Association
-Japanese Cancer Association
-Japanese Society of Allergology
-Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology
-Japanese Skin Cancer Society
-Japanese Society for Dermatoallergology
-Japanese Society for Psoriasis Research
   
Academic Publications
 

Furuta J, Nobeyama Y, Umebayashi Y, Otsuka F, Kikuchi K, Ushijima T: Silencing of Peroxiredoxin 2 and Aberrant Methylation of 33 CpG Islands in Putative Promoter Regions in Human Malignant Melanomas. Cancer Research, Vol.66, 6080-6, 2006
  Watanabe N, Okochi-Takada E, Yagi Y, Furuta J, Ushijima T: Decreased Fidelity in Replicating DNA Methylation Patterns in Cancer Cells Leads to Dense Methylation of a CpG island, DNA Methylation: Development, Genetic Disease and Cancer (Doerfler W, Bohm P Eds.), Springer, 199-210, 2006
  Furuta J, Kaneda A, Umebayashi Y, Otsuka F, Sugimura T, Ushijima T: Silencing of the thrombomodulin gene in human malignant melanoma. Melanoma Research, Vol.15, 15-20, 2005
 

Furuta J, Umebayashi Y, Miyamoto K, Kikuchi K, Otsuka F, Sugimura T, Ushijima T: Promoter methylation profiling of 30 genes in human malignant melanoma. Cancer Science, Vol.95, 962-8, 2004

  Hagihara A, Miyamoto K, Furuta J, Hiraoka N, Wakazono K, Seki S, Fukushima S, Tsao MS, Sugimura T, Ushijima T.: Identification of 27 5' CpG islands aberrantly methylated and 13 genes silenced in human pancreatic cancers. Oncogene, Vol.23, 8705-10, 2004
   
Awards
 

 
   
telEfax
  tel : 029-853-3128
  fax : 029-853-3217
   
E-mail Address
 

jfurutamd.tsukuba.ac.jp
[Education and Experience]
1998.3
Graduated from School of Medicine , University of Tsukuba
1998.5
Junior Resident, University of Tsukuba Hospital
2000.4
Dermatologist, Hitachi General Hospital

2001.4
Research Resident, National Cancer Center Research Institute

2005.3
Graduated from Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba

2005.4
Dermatologist, Kasumigaura Medical Center Hospital

2005.7
Senior Resident, University of Tsukuba Hospital

2006.5
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba