Division and Department
Department of Pharmaceutics
A Greeting from the Professor
Welcome to the Department of Pharmaceutics, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine.
Our mission and goal is to provide personalized therapy using a therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacogenomics.
Until now, we have established the relationships between exposure and response (efficacy/toxicity) for tyrosine kinase inhibitors, immunosuppressive drugs, anticoagulant agents, and psychotropic drugs etc. Dose-adjustment based on pharmacokinetic targets or genomic information can increase response rates and duration for pharmacotherapy.
We will continue to develop new strategies for pharmacotherapy in the future.
Staff
Lecturer:
Yumiko AKAMINE, Ph.D.
Research Areas
- Pharmacogenomics of drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters.
- Clinical pharmacokinetics, including drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion and therapeutic drug monitoring.
- Pharmaceutical and clinical sciences, including developments in analytical methodology such as HPLC and LC-MS/MS.
- Relations between gene mutation and clinical effects.
- Drug-drug/food (juice) interaction.
Contact Information
Lecturer Yumiko AKAMINE
Phone: +81-18-884-6309
Fax: +81-18-836-2628
E-mail: yumiko-ai@hos.akita-u.ac.jp
