PIs

1. Goro Sashida, MD, PhD: Professor
2. Jie Bai, PhD: Post-doctoral Researcher
3. Minoru Terashima, PhD: Post-doctoral Researcher
4. Mihoko Iimori, MT: Research assistant
5. Ai Hamashima, BS: Reseach assistant/PhD student (M2)
   
6. Supannika Sorin, MS: PhD student (D2) (S-HIGO fellowship)
7. Eerdunduleng, MD: PhD student (D2) (the Ushio scholarship)
   
8. Arusyak Ivanyan, MD: PhD student (D2) (the Uehara scholarship)
9. Atsuhi Wada, MD: PhD student (D1)
10. Keiji Matsufuji, DDS: part-time Reseach assistant
11. Motomi Osato, MD, PhD: Visiting Professor
12. Mayumi Hirayama, DDS, PhD: Visiting researcher

Alumni:

1. Sara Kaneda: part-time research assistant/MD student (-2016)
2. Takako Ideue, MD: Research Specialist (-2018)
3. Daiki Tanaka, MD: part-time research assistant/MD student (-2019)
4. Gaber Abdallah Abdallah, MD: Visiting research fellow (-2020)
5. Nanami Kurita: part-time research assistant/MD student (-2020)
6. Kuan Jew Win, MD, PhD: Research fellow (JSPS-RONPAKU, PhD from Kumamoto University) (2017-2020)
7. Supannika Sorin, BS: Visiting PhD student (from Khon Kaen University) (2020-2021)
8. Ayaka Maeda, MD: part-time research assistant/MD student (-2021)
9. Wang Yongjie: PhD student (2020-2022)
   
10. Yonoshin Hayashi: part-time research assistant/MD student (-2022)
11. Takako Yokomizo, PhD: Post-doctoral researcher (2015-2022) (Current position; Asistant Professor, The University of Tokyo)
    
12. Yuqi Sun, MD, PhD: PhD student (PhD from Kumamoto University) (2017-2022)
13. Sho Kubota, PhD: Asistant Professor (2015-2023) (Current position; Asistant Professor, Okayama University)
14. Ratthaphong Phumphu, BS: Visiting PhD student (from Khon Kaen University)
15. Mariko Morii, PhD: Post-doctoral researcher (JSPS-RPD)

Vacancies:

If you are interested in studying and working with us, please email at sashidag(at)kumamoto-u.ac.jp.  We are always happy to hear from good motivated people (potential postdocs, clinical fellows, and students) and undergraduate students, who want to get a PhD degree from Kumamoto University.

Lab photos:

Lab lunch in December 2023: We send Ton to his home. He has accomplished a lot in Kumamoto in one and half year.

Lab lunch in December 2022:

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In November 2022, we had a party: Welcome Eeerdun-Farewell Arusyak-Discharge congratulations Ratthaphong.

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Yuqi Sun left Kumamoto after he got a PhD degree in March 2022. Congratulations! We wish him great future and wonderful life in China!

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Ayaka graduated School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, and got a MD degree in March 2021. We are proud of Ayaka because of her outstanding accomplishments in Kumamoto. Congratulations! We wish her continued success in a new place as being a doctor!

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We send Supannika "Mean" Sorin back to Thailand in January 2021. We wish her good luck!