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Team Leader
Masaya Hagiwara Ph.D.

Human Biomimetic System RIKEN Hakubi Research Team

LocationKobe / Integrated Innovation Bldg.

E-mailmasaya.hagiwara [at] riken.jp

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The overall objective is the development of in-vitro experimental platform to reconstitute the biological system outside our bodies by controlling cellular micro-environments. Especially lung airway is the one of my major targets.The scientific question is how the airway cells can organize such a sophisticated structure by themselves. The repetitive feedbacks between in-vitro experiments and mathematical model give us a tremendous amount of useful information, and I am challenging to unveil the system underlying self-organization of tissue formation by directing complex tissue structure. Development of Organ or Body-on-a-Chip system is another research target for the animal testing alternative.

Selected Publications

Koh I, Hagiwara M.
Gradient to sectioning CUBE workflow for the generation and imaging of organoids with localized differentiation.
Communications Biology 6(1), 299 Tue Mar 21 00:00:00 JST 2023 doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04694-5

Suthiwanich K, Hagiwara M.
Localization of Multiple Hydrogels with MultiCUBE Platform Spatially Guides 3D Tissue Morphogenesis In Vitro
Advanced Materials Technologies 8(4), 2201660 Sun Jan 29 00:00:00 JST 2023 doi: 10.1002/admt.202201660

Takano A, Koh I, Hagiwara M.
3D Culture Platform for Enabling Large-Scale Imaging and Control of Cell Distribution into Complex Shapes by Combining 3D Printing with a Cube Device.
Micromachines 13(2), 156 Fri Jan 21 00:00:00 JST 2022 doi: 10.3390/mi13020156

Hagiwara M, Maruyama H, Akiyama M, et al.
Weakening of resistance force by cell-ECM interactions regulate cell migration directionality and pattern formation.
Communications Biology 4(1), 808 Mon Jun 28 00:00:00 JST 2021 doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02350-4

Hagiwara M, Koh I.
Engineering approaches to control and design the in vitro environment towards the reconstruction of organs.
Development, Growth & Differentiation 62(3), 158-166 Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 JST 2020 doi: 10.1111/dgd.12647

Hagiwara M, Nobata R, Kawahara T.
Initial 3D Cell Cluster Control in a Hybrid Gel Cube Device for Repeatable Pattern Formations.
Journal of Visualized Experiments Thu Mar 21 00:00:00 JST 2019 doi: 10.3791/59214

Hagiwara M, Nakase I.
Epidermal growth factor induced macropinocytosis directs branch formation of lung epithelial cells.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 507(1-4), 297-303 Sun Dec 09 00:00:00 JST 2018 doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.11.028

Hagiwara M, Nobata R, Kawahara T.
High repeatability from 3D experimental platform for quantitative analysis of cellular branch pattern formations.
Integrative Biology 10(5), 306-312 Mon May 21 00:00:00 JST 2018 doi: 10.1039/c8ib00032h

Hagiwara M, Nobata R, Kawahara T.
Large Scale Imaging by Fine Spatial Alignment of Multi-Scanning Data with Gel Cube Device
Applied Sciences 8(2), 235 Sun Feb 04 00:00:00 JST 2018 doi: 10.3390/app8020235

Hagiwara M, Maruta N, Marumoto M.
In Vitro Experimental Model for the Long-Term Analysis of Cellular Dynamics During Bronchial Tree Development from Lung Epithelial Cells.
Tissue Engineering. Part C, Methods 23(6), 323-332 Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 JST 2017 doi: 10.1089/ten.TEC.2017.0126

Hagiwara M.
An in vitro-in silico interface platform for spatiotemporal analysis of pattern formation in collective epithelial cells.
Integrative Biology 8(8), 861-868 Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 JST 2016 doi: 10.1039/c6ib00073h

Hagiwara M, Kawahara T, Nobata R.
Tissue in Cube: In Vitro 3D Culturing Platform with Hybrid Gel Cubes for Multidirectional Observations.
Advanced Healthcare Materials 5(13), 1566-1571 Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 JST 2016 doi: 10.1002/adhm.201600167

Members

lab_members

Masaya Hagiwara

RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader

Raja Kumar Vadivelu

Special Postdoctoral Researcher

Isabel Siew Yin Koh

Postdoctoral Researcher

Yen Xuan Ngo

Postdoctoral Researcher

Satoko Kinoshita

Assistant

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