Legal Medicine
Outline
The Department of Legal Medicine resumed forensic autopsies in 2007 and expanded its operations in 2011, when a new forensic autopsy room was completed in the Anatomy Center. In July 2015, Professor MIZUKAMI Hajime was appointed as the sixth chair of the department and has continued to lead autopsy work since then.
In cooperation with judicial authorities, the department now conducts approximately 60 to 70 forensic autopsies annually, not only for Ishikawa Prefecture but also for Toyama and Fukui Prefectures. Through these activities, we contribute to the judicial system, public health, and public welfare.
Our current research themes include: genetic analysis of drug-metabolizing enzymes in individuals with a history of drug intake; genetic analysis of sudden unexpected death and the elucidation of its onset mechanisms; and development of a novel postmortem diagnostic method for fatal hypothermia.
e-mail: legalmed@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
Faculty
Research Achievements
Hiroshi Takeshita, Masamune Kobayashi, Hajime Mizukami. An autopsy case of a child found in a household front-load washing machine. Res Pract Forens Med. 67: 29-33 (2024).
Hiroshi Takeshita, Masamune Kobayashi, Hajime Mizukami. An autopsy case of fatal hypothermia after burn injury. Res Pract Forens Med. 66: 113-117 (2023).
Kumi Murata, Ayako Ro, Norimasa Kageyama, Ryo Kaimori, Hajime Mizukami, Shinjiro Mori. An Autopsy Case of Iatrogenic Pyogenic Spondylitis. Res Pract Forens Med. 65: 17-21 (2022).
Hajime Mizukami, Hiroshi Takeshita, Masamune Kobayashi. An Autopsy Case of a Skeletal Corpse with Inconsistent Morphological Sex Characteristics and Corresponding Person. Res Pract Forens Med. 65: 45-50 (2022).
External Research Funding
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 2025-2028
Research Project: Study on sudden death due to ADAMTS13 and angiotensin II focusing on sex differences.
Principal investigator: KOBAYASHI Masamune
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)2021-2024
Potential of markers of muscle damage and regulators of body fluid for postmortem diagnosis of hypothermia
Principal investigator: TAKESHITA Hiroshi
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 2019-2022
Research Project: Comprehensive analysis of death mechanism induced by ADAMTS13 and angiotensin II
Principal investigator: KOBAYASHI Masamune
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 2017-2019
Research Project: Study on sudden death due to anticoagulant factor ADAMTS13 and angiotensin II
Principal investigator: KOBAYASHI Masamune
Links
Japanese Society of Legal Medicine