Researchers

OKAMURA Daiji

OKAMURA Daiji
Associate Professor
Faculty Department of Advanced Bioscience / Graduate School of Agriculture
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/DJepi

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2025 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Advanced Bioscience Associate Professor
  • Sep. 2024 - Sep. 2025 , UT Southwestern Medical Center Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2025 , Kindai University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Advanced Bioscience 講師
  • Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015 , Salk Institute for biological studies Research Associate
  • Jan. 2005 - Mar. 2012 , Tohoku University Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer 助教
  • Apr. 2004 - Dec. 2004 , Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital Research Institute 病因病態部門 常勤研究員

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Life sciences , Cell biology
  • Life sciences , Developmental biology

Research Interests

多能性幹細胞, iPS/ ES細胞, 骨格筋細胞, がん細胞, 無血清培地

Published Papers

  1. Vitronectin establishes a differentiation-restrictive extracellular microenvironment that sustains myoblast proliferation across species.
    Tomoka Katayama; Anmi Matsumoto; Yoka Takazawa; Momoka Hashino; Kaito Minoru; Yuta Chigi; Daiji Okamura
    Biomaterials science  28, May. 2026  , Refereed
  2. Mitigating xenogeneic barriers to chimerism through Cas13-induced host attenuation.
    Bingbing He; Shijian Lv; Leijie Li; Lin Zhang; Yingying Hu; Daiji Okamura; Jia Huang; Jun Wu
    Developmental cell  29, Jan. 2026  , Refereed
  3. Dissecting Oct4 enhancer function in pluripotent stem cells and mouse embryogenesis.
    Daniel A Schmitz; Daiji Okamura; Masahiro Sakurai; Yi Ding; Seiya Oura; Emily Ballard; Yulei Wei; Leqian Yu; Yingying Hu; Jun Wu
    Stem cell reports  , 102706-102706, 6, Nov. 2025  , Refereed

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MISC

  1. 血清介在性筋分化の重要な調節御因子としてのビトロネクチン(Vitronectin as a key regulator of serum-mediated myogenic differentiation) , Katayama Tomoka; Okamura Daiji , 日本発生生物学会・日本細胞生物学会合同大会要旨集 , 58回・77回 , [7P , 079)] , Jul. 2025
  2. 培養肉実現に向けた培地添加物メチル‐ベータ-シクロデキストリンの効果—The ensured proliferative capacity of myoblasts in serum-reduced conditions with Methyl-β-cyclodextrin , 岡村 大治 , 浦上財団研究報告書 = Urakami Foundation memoirs , 32 , 22 , 26 , Mar. 2025
  3. ビトロネクチンによる筋分化制御と加齢に伴う量的変化 , 片山ともか; 曽瑩; 水谷健一; 岡村大治 , 日本分子生物学会年会プログラム・要旨集(Web) , 48th , 2025

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, The mechanism of removal of histone H2A variants in fertilized eggs and development of reprogramming assistance technique , Kindai University
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Study on the mechanism of histone H2A.Z remodeling and development of a novel reprogramming technology , Kindai University
  3. 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, コレステロール生合成阻害によるヒトiPS細胞の腫瘍形成リスク除去技術の確立 , 近畿大学

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