Legal Medicine

All autopsies and their related duties in Yamanashi prefecture are performed in our department. In addition, we perform antemortem inspection of the victims of domestic violence and child abuse cases.

Staff

Name Title・Positions Main Research Focus
Noboru ADACHI Professor DNA analysis on the highly degraded samples, mainly ancient human skeletons.
Hideki SHOJO Associate Professor Analyses of traumatic brain injury induced neuronal death and degeneration.
Tsuneo KAKUDA Assistant Professor Genetical phylogenetics of degraded samples,ancient human,cetaceams.
Ryohei TAKAHASHI Assistant Professor Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analysis of Sus scrofa: Using archaeological and modern samples.

Website

http://www.med.yamanashi.ac.jp/social/legal0me/english/index.html