The Advanced Medical Research Center (横浜市立大学先端医科学研究センター) (AMRC) is an ancillary establishment of Yokohama City University (YCU) in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It was established in October 2006, and a new research building at the AMRC was opened on the YCU Fukuura campus in March 2013. The AMRC research building was further enlarged in 2015.

Research

Research at the AMRC covers a wide variety of medical fields, including oncology, immunology, genetics, regenerative medicine, translational research and bioinformatics.

Organization

• Department of Research and Development (Hideki TANIGUCHI)
• Department of Clinical Research Promotion (Yasuo TERAUCHI)
• Department of Research Support and coordination (Takuya TAKAHASHI)
• Biobank Division
• Bioinformatics Laboratory

Directors

• Yukie YAMAGUCHI (current)
• Atsushi NAKAJIMA
• Nobuhiko ORIDATE
• Tomio INOUE
• Hisashi HIRANO
• Shigeo OHNO (2006 to 2008)