Kazuaki MORI

• 2020-04 – Present Five-year Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University
• 2016-04 – 2020-03 B.A. in Political Science, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
• 2009-04 – 2015-03 Osaka Seiko Gakuin Junior & Senior High School

Applied Biology Group

• Mitochondrial damage and ER stress in CB1 receptor antagonist-induced apoptosis in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Kazuaki Mori, Akinobu Togo, Kota Yamashita, Shigeo Sakuragi, Hiroko Bannai, Taishi Umezawa, Keisuke Ohta, Toru Asahi, Chihiro Nozaki, Kosuke Kataoka. Neuropharmacology, 273, 110440, (2025)
• CB1 Receptor Agonist ACEA Resists ER Stress-Mediated Apoptosis via CB1R-Independent Mechanism. Kazuaki Mori, Akinobu Togo, Keisuke Ohta, Toru Asahi, Chihiro Nozaki, Kosuke Kataoka. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 48(6), 769-781, (2025)
• In vitro mechanical stretch inhibits differentiation of mouse myoblast C2C12 cells without sustained eIF2α phosphorylation. Kazuaki Mori, Toru Asahi, Kosuke Kataoka, and Yoshikatsu Akiyama. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 778, 152350, (2025)
• Covalent Immobilization of Collagen Type I to a Polydimethylsiloxane Surface for Preventing Cell Detachment by Retaining Collagen Molecules under Uniaxial Cyclic Mechanical Stretching Stress. Kazuaki Mori, Kosuke Kataoka, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, Toru Asahi. Biomacromolecules, 24(11), 5035-5045, (2023)

• PosterElucidation of CB1 Receptor-Independent Mechanisms of Neuroprotection and Neurotoxicity Induced by Cannabinoids. Kazuaki Mori, Akinobu Togo, Kota Yamashita, Taishi Umezawa, Keisuke Ohta, Chihiro Nozaki, Toru Asahi, Kosuke Kataoka. 第47回 日本分子生物学会年会 (福岡国際会議場) (2024)
• OralCannabinoid receptor type 1-regulated cell death depending on its subcellular localization in human neuroblastoma cell. 森一明, 朝日透, 片岡孝介. 35th World Congress Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (東京国際フォーラム) (2024)
• Posterミトコンドリア機能と細胞死における1型カンナビノイド受容体の細胞内局在性依存的な役割. 森一明, 朝日透, 片岡孝介. 第42回鎮痛薬・オピオイドペプチドシンポジウム (東京理科大学葛飾キャンパス) (2023)
• OralThe differential effects of CB1 receptor modulation on mitochondrial function and cell death in human neuroblastoma cells. Kazuaki Mori, Asahi Toru, Kosuke Kataoka. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ) (2023)
• Posterカンナビノイド受容体CB1のミトコンドリアにおける細胞内局在依存的な機能 Subcellular localization-dependent function of cannabinoid CB1 receptor in mitochondria. 森 ⼀明, 朝⽇ 透, ⽚岡 孝介. 第45回日本分子生物学会年会 (幕張メッセ) (2022)
• PosterApplication of Collagen-immobilized PDMS Substrate for Cell Stretching. Kazuaki Mori, Kosuke Kataoka, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, Toru Aasahi. 32nd Annual Conference of European Society of Biomaterials (ESB) (2022)
• PosterSubcellular localization-dependent function of cannabinoid CB1 receptor in mitochondria. Kazuaki Mori, Asahi Toru, Kosuke Kataoka. The 8th Japanese Clinical Association of Cannabinoid (JCAC) Conference (2022)
• Poster細胞外マトリックスを化学固定したPMDS表面の伸展培養への応用と評価. 森 一明, 片岡 孝介, 秋山 義勝, 朝日 透. 第70回高分子学会年次大会 (2021)
• OralThe role of cannabinoid CB1 receptor in mitochondrial dynamics. Kazuaki Mori, Asahi Toru, Kosuke Kataoka. The 64th Annual Meeting of the JSN (2021)

• 2023-01 – 2023-04 JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers
• 2022-04 – 2025-03 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientist DC1

2023-01 – 2023-04 Program “Research Visits of JSPS Research Fellows to ERC-supported European Teams,” Team Endocannabinoids and Neuroadaptation (Principal Investigator: Giovanni Marsicano, V.D., Ph.D.), Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM U 1215, Bordeaux (France).