In order to optimize the medication based on the background of each patient, a variety of research for dosage adjustment using genetic information is in progress. However our understanding for individual variations of the efficacy and adverse reactions of medicines still remains to be further investigated. My research topics are the evaluation of the biological factors which affect the pharmacokinetics (and pharmacodynamics) and the extent of drug-drug interactions (DDI) as follows,
(1) The effects of genetic and epigenetic factors on inter-individual differences of the protein expression and function of the metabolic enzyme and transporters
The aim of this research topic is to evaluate the contribution of genetic and/or epigenetic factors such genetic polymorphism for cytochromeP450 enzyme and transporter and epigenetic regulation by microRNA etc on pharmacokinetic profiles certain drugs.
