People

Principal Investigator

Naoki Yamanaka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
04/2014 -

Honors
2009 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
2012 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)
2017 Pew Biomedical Scholar
2018 NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2)

Our Team

Naoki Okamoto
Assistant Project Scientist
09/2015 -

Lewis Hun
Postdoc
07/2018 -

Ruoying Lu
Graduate Student
10/2014 -

Mikkal Blick
Graduate Student
04/2015 -

Riyan Bittar
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
09/2015 - 03/2017; 10/2018 -

Lisa Faraee
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
07/2017 -

Previous Members

Yuya Ohhara
Postdoc
09/2014 - 09/2015

Vivian Phan
Undergraduate
11/2018 - 05/2019

Crystal Pontrello
Assistant Project Scientist
07/2016 - 08/2016

Roilea Maxson
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
01/2017 - 09/2018