April 1, 2025
Professor Matsushita was awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Ms. Kuroda received a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), and Dr. Orikasa was selected for a Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists.

April 1, 2025
Keita Kondo and Yuki Tatamiya have joined our lab as Ph.D. students. Congratulations on your admission!

March 25, 2025
The university graduation ceremony was held. Congratulations to Mr. Ohyama and Mr. Nakamura on your graduation! And congratulations on passing the national exam as well!!

March 18, 2025
Professor Matsushita gave a lecture at the Implant Seminar hosted by the Department of Oral Implantology, Nagasaki University.

March 8, 2025
Professor Matsushita received the Academic Award at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Cartilage Metabolism and delivered an award lecture.

February 17, 2025
Professor Matsushita gave a lecture at the RS seminar held at Okayama University.

February 6, 2025
On February 6, Professor Matsushita gave a lecture at the Seihi Dental Association Academic Training Seminar. We passionately discussed how to translate basic research into clinical practice.

January 28, 2025
On January 28, Professor Matsushita gave a lecture at the Development, Growth, and Pediatric Medicine Group Seminar and the Young Researchers & Graduate Student Seminar at Hiroshima University.

January 27, 2025
We have introduced a new cell sorter (Beckman CytoFLEX SRT) in our lab.

December 17, 2024
We have newly introduced a single-cell analysis system (BD Rhapsody) in our lab.

November 30, 2024
On November 25-29, Professor Pedro Gomes from the University of Porto (Portugal) visited the Faculty of Dentistry at Nagasaki University through the EU Erasmus+ Programme. He was primarily hosted by our department, where he gave lectures and engaged in discussions with faculty members and PhD students.

November 4, 2024
On November 2-4, all attended the 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Oral Biology. Prof. Matsushita presented at a symposium. Dr. Wu, Dr. Nagata, Dr. Kondo, Ms. Yamabe, Ms. Hosokawa, Ms. Sugiura, Mr. Takashima, and Ms. Saito gave their presentations. Dr. Kondo received the Morita Presentation Award.

October 31, 2024
On October 29-31, we attended the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthodontic Society. Dr. Morita presented at an oral session and received the Outstanding Presentation Award.

October 1, 2024
The Department of Skeletal Development and Regenerative Biology has been launched.

July 10, 2023
We published a paper entitled “Hes1 marks peri-condensation mesenchymal cells that generate both chondrocytes and perichondrial cells in early bone development” in Journal of Biological Chemistry.
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(23)01833-1/fulltext

April 27, 2023
We published a paper entitled “Bone marrow endosteal stem cells dictate active osteogenesis and aggressive tumorigenesis” in Nature Communications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38034-2

November 29, 2022
We published a paper entitled “The fate of early perichondrial cells in developing bones” in Nature Communications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34804-6