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Faculty Information Details
All data is as of November 24, 2025.
- TAHARA YU
- Associate Professor
| Affiliation | Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Hygiene/Epidemiology/Public Health |
| Academic Degrees |
Waseda University Waseda University |
| Research Fields |
Medicine,dentistry, and pharmacy; Basic medicine; Environmental physiology (including physical medicine and nutritional physiology) |
| Research Keywords | Circadian clock, Chronobiology, Chrono-nutrition, health science |
| Comments | Dr. Tahara was born in 1985 in Japan. He got Ph.D. in Waseda University in 2013. He was a visiting assistant professor in UCLA (2016-2019), then moved to Waseda University as an associate professor. He moved to Hiroshima University in 2022. His research topic is circadian clock in mammals, especially chrono-nutrition. His recent interest is to develop a personalized intervention algorithm to improve health and prevent diseases. |
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| SDGs | |
| Educational Programs |
[Bachelor Degree Program] School of Medicine : Program of Medicine : Medicine [Master's Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Integrated Health Sciences : Program of Public Health [Master's Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Integrated Health Sciences : Program of Biomedical Science [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Integrated Health Sciences : Program of Public Health [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Integrated Health Sciences : Program of Biomedical Science [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Biomedical Sciences : Program of Medicine |
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