AIDS Research Center (ARC)
May 15, 2026
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Outline
Divisions
Members & Research Labs/Teams
To facilitate cutting-edge research pragmatically, ARC rearranges itself to comprise multiple, horizontal concept-based research laboratories (by chiefs) and research teams (by PI research scientists) which also strengthens the interlink of defined divisions. Some are directly tied to divisions, while others are cross-division. Please refer to the tree URL of each lab/team for contents.
Director
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Midori Muranushi (Secretary)
Megumi Sukigara (Secretary)
Division 1
Tadashi Kikuchi (Tenured PI Research Scientist)
Saori Matsuoka (Tenured PI Research scientist)
>HIV Domestic Control Research Team (Kikuchi-Matsuoka joint) URL (under construction)
Taketoshi Mizutani (PI Research Scientist)
Lucky Ronald Runtuwene (PI Research Scientist)
Division 2
Ai Kawana-Tachikawa (Division Chief)
>Human Antiviral Immunity Research Laboratory URL (under construction)
Shigeru Kusagawa (PI Research Scientist)
Aya Ishizaka (PI Research Scientist)
Alitzel Anzurez (Research Scientist)
Yoko Ayukawa (Research Assistant)
Kaoru Nakayama-Hosoya (Collaborative Researcher)
Anguy Macaca (Kumamoto Univ PhD candidate)
Division 3
Shigeyoshi Harada (Division Chief)
>JICA-NIID BSL Setup Technique Implementation Laboratory URL (under construction)
Sayuri Seki (Tenured PI Research Scientist)
>Multi-scale Virus-host Interaction Biology Research Team URL (under construction)
Aki Tanabe (Research Scientist)
Division 4
Masako Nishizawa (Tenured PI Research Scientist)
Takeshi Yoshida (Tenured PI Research Scientist)
>Retroviral Infection Preparedness Research Team URL (under construction)
Takaya Hayashi (PI Research Scientist)
Koji Sakai (Visiting Scientist, former Tenured PI Research Scientist)
Jun-Ichi Sakuragi (PI Research Scientist, former Chief of Biosafety Res Center)
>HIV Genome Structure Research Team URL (under construction)
Shioko Kojima (Research Assistant/Collaborative Researcher)
Anh Pham Hong Quynh (Kumamoto Univ PhD candidate)
Natsuki Hoshino (Yokohama City Univ PhD candidate)
Mai Chu (Kumamoto Univ PhD candidate)