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TANAKA KEN

Department / Course College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of Pharmacy

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Pharmacy

Academic background
1.		│ Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Business career
1.	2005/07/01 ～ 2014/03/31	│ Institute of Natural Medicine, │ University of Toyama

Research activities
1.		The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy
2.		The pharmaceutical Society of Japan
3.		Medical and Pharmaceutical Society for WAKAN-YAKU

Subject of research
1.	１．Metabolomic analysis of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants
2.	２．A novel study of natural-product chemistry applying chemometorics
3.	３．Development of the database on crude drug and Kampo medicine

Present specialized field
Natural medicines, Chemical pharmacy (Keyword：Medicinal plants, Crude drug, Kampo medicine, Metabolomics, Mass spectrometry, Chemical ecology)

Papers
1.	2025	Chemical composition of essential oil from Alpinia zerumbet fruits. │ Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University │
2.	2025	Exogenous ethanol treatment promotes glycyrrhizin accumulation in aseptically grown Glycyrrhiza uralensis seedlings. │ Plant Signaling & Behavior │ 20 (1),pp.2472012
3.	2025	Identification of fatty acids as preferentially cytotoxic constituents of the crude drug lycopodium (spore of Lycopodium clavatum). │ Natural Products: Chemistry, Pharmacology and Nutrition │ 1 (1),pp.14-18
4.	2025	Plants used in traditional Indonesian (Jamu) medicines and Sundanese foods. │ Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University │
5.	2025	Practical concepts to reveal metabolite group types in natural dietary based on1H and13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. │ Food Research │ 9 (1),pp.46-54
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2020/07/28	Development of in vitro germination method for Apiaceae plant.
2.	2020/07/28	Primer design for expression analysis of biosynthesis of secondary metabolites of Artemisia princeps using RNA-seq data from a neighboring species.
3.	2020/07/28	Quality evaluation of ginger using multivariate statistical analysis.
4.	2019/09/04	HPLC–ESI–MS analysis of the chemical constituents of Bletilla Tuber
5.	2018/10/28	Integrated statistical model based on transcriptome and metabolome in the biophylaxis metabolism of Angelica acutiloba.
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