Professor SAHARA Makoto

【Specialty】

Stem cell biology; Developmental cardiology; Regenerative medicine; Cardiovascular biology and medicine

【Membership of academic societies】

International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), American Heart Association (AHA) [Fellow of the AHA (FAHA)], Japanese Circulation Society (JCS), Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (JSIM)

【Academic degrees】

University of Osaka	B.S.	1994	Biology
University of Osaka	M.D.	1998	Medicine
University of Tokyo	Ph.D.	2007	Cardiovascular Medicine

【Biography】

1998-2000	Residency	Tokyo University Hospital (Internal Medicine)
2000-2003	Cardiology fellow	Cardiovascular Institute Hospital [Tokyo]
2006-2008	JSPS research fellow	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2008-2010	Assistant professor	Tokyo University Hospital (Dept. Cardiovasc Med.)
2010-2013	Research fellow	Harvard Medical Sch. / Massachusetts G. Hospital
2013-2017	Assistant professor	Karolinska Institute (Dept. of Medicine/CMB)
2017-2024	Senior researcher/Assoc professor	Karolinska Institute (Dept. of Medicine/CMB)
2019-2024	Associate professor (adj.)	Yale University School of Medicine
2024-current	Professor	Hamamatsu University School of Medicine

Postdoctral Researcher CHOWDHURY Sajid Iftekhar

【Biography】
2012　Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), University of Science and Technology Chittagong (Bangladesh)
2015　Research fellow, University of Chittagong (Dept. of Biochem & Mol Biol)
2023　PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Aichi Medical University Graduate School of Medicine (Japan)

Postdoctral Researcher LIU Liang

【Biography】
2014　Bachelor of Medicine, Henan University of Chinese Medicine
2017　Master of Biomedicine, Henan University of Chinese Medicine
2024　PhD, Department of Microbiology & Immnology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine

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