People

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Lab Members

Takanari Inoue

(he/him)

Principal Investigator

Jose Catala Torres

(he/him)

PhD Student - 2021 (Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology)

Cindy Chen

(she/her)

Undergraduate Student - 2023 (Pre-major)

Robert DeRose

(he/him)

Research Specialist

Toshifumi Fujioka

(he/him)

Postdoctoral Fellow - 2025

Eduardo Gonzalez Cantero

(he/him)

PhD Student - 2024 (Biological Chemistry)

Tobias Huang

(he/him)

Undergraduate Student - 2023 (Molecular and Cell Biology)

Elliott Leow

(he/him)

Undergraduate Student - 2024 (BME)

Sebastian Lira

(he/him)

Undergraduate Student - 2023 (Pre-major)

Kenichi Nakayama

(he/him)

Postdoctoral Fellow- 2024

Nhung Nguyen

(she/her)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Renee Pepper

(she/her)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Inoue Lab and Watanabe Lab

Jalil Rezek

(he/him)

Undergraduate Student - 2023 (Computer Science)

Elmer Rho

(he/him)

Research Technologist - 2024

Willow Rock

(she/her)

PhD Student - 2021 (Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology)

Cristian Saez Gonzalez

(he/him)

PhD Student - 2021 (Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology)

Mia Sproge

(she/her)

High School Student Intern - 2023

Saki Takayanagi

(she/her)

PhD Student - 2021 (XDBio Program)

Soei Watari

(he/him)

Visiting PhD Student - 2024

Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Tasuku Ueno

Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo

Toru Komatsu

Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo

Takafumi Miyamoto

Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba

Yu-Chun Lin

Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University

Hideki Nakamura

Associate Professor, Kyoto University

Allister Suarez

Postdoc, Johns Hopkins

Satoshi Watanabe

Assistant Professor, Osaka University

Hideaki Matsubayashi

Assistant Professor, Tohoku University

Yuta Nihongaki

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

Abhijit Deb Roy

Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Graduate Students

Benjamin Lin

Assistant Professor, SUNY

Steven Su

MD-PhD Student, Columbia University

Siew Cheng Phua

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Elmer Rho

PhD Student, Harvard University

Jackie Niu

Postdoc, Columbia University

Shiva Razavi

Postdoc, MIT

Kester Coutinho

Technical advisor, Ropes & Gray LLP

Allen Kim

Postdoc, NIH

Yuchuan Miao

Postdoc, Harvard Medical School

Helen (Di) Wu

Postdoc, Stanford

Tony Yao

PhD student, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Edward Cai

Undergraduate Students

Chris Pohlmeyer

Scientist, Horizon Therapeutics

Vikram Rajpurohit

Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Daniel Bibl

Process Engineer, Twist Bioscience

John Jiao

Emergency Medicine Physician, AHMC Anaheim Regional Medical Center

Melinda Chen

PhD Student, Harvard-MIT HST

Makoto Tanigawa

Resident, Thomas Jefferson University Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Peter Kalugin

MD-PhD Student, Harvard

Emily Su

PhD Student, Johns Hopkins

Brian Huang

Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins

Robert Li

Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins

Zi-Yi Choo

MD student, University of Chicago

Jack Mountain

Research technologist, Johns Hopkins

Albert Yang

PhD student, UCSD

Luca Bertozzi

MD student, George Washington University

Gayatri Pillai

MD student, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Evan Gross

MD student at University of Alabama Birmingham

York Wang

Gap year prior to med school

Jonathan Hung

Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins

Farid Shahid

Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins

Eesha Yadav

(she/her)

PhD student, MIT

Visiting Scientists

Nobu Umeda

Astella Pharma Inc.

Ryo Kojima

PhD Student, University of Tokyo

Shuhei Chiba

Assistant Professor, Tohoku University

Yuta Nihongaki

Graduate Student, University of Tokyo

Albert Lee

MS Student, National Taiwan University

Simon Stilling

Sales and Business Development at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germany

Shiro Suetsugu

Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Hiroshi Otani

PhD student, University of Hiroshima

Takeshi Yoshikawa

Medical student, University of Tokyo

Nanami Takeuchi

Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

High School Student Interns

June Liu

Undergraduate Student, Emory University

Diana Bobb

High School Student

Yoav Kargon

Undergraduate Student, Duke University

Staff

Lindsey Varela

Research Technician, Johns Hopkins

Igor Kukelyansky

MD Student, Thomas Jefferson University