Principal Investigator
Koichi Yuki, MD
Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Clinical senior associate of cardiac anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
Director of cardiac anesthesia research, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr. Koichi Yuki obtained his M.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan. After his initial medical training in Japan, he came to US and completed his surgical internship in the University of Hawaii, anesthesia residency in Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by pediatric anesthesia fellowship and pediatric cardiac anesthesia fellowship in Boston Children’s Hospital. He is currently a Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital and a principal investigator at the Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School. He did postdoctoral research fellowship under Drs. Timothy Springer and Motomu Shimaoka (Immune Disease Institute), and his laboratory research focuses on elucidation of organ injury driven by myeloid cells in sepsis and systemic inflammation. In addition, his laboratory has investigated the impact of anesthetics on perioperative immune function and postoperative outcomes.
Lab Members
Sophia Koutsogiannaki, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Education: Immunology, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Research Interests: Integrin and lung injury
Lifei Hou, PhD
Instructor in Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Education: Immunopharmacology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Integrin and neutrophil/dendritic cell functions
Panop Limratana, MD
Education: Mahidol University
Research interests: Discovery of therapeutics against intergins
Fahd Alhamdan, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow
Education: Philipps-University Marburg/Immunology and Allergy
Research Interests: Sepsis and its immune profiles
Ganchimeg Bayarsaikhan, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow
Education: Nagasaki University
Research Interests: TLR and integrin crosstalk
Gianoli Stefano, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow
Education: University of Milan
Research interests: Viral spreading and immune response, lung injury
Xiaohui Han, BS
Laboratory manager
Alumni
RiLe Ge, MD, PhD
Research assistant, Brigham and Women’s hospital
Grace Jung, BS
Columbia University, Statistician
Erika Matsunami, MD
Staff anesthesiologist, Japan
Emily Greenwald, BS
PhD candidate, Stanford University
Sandra Lee, BS
MD/PhD candidate, University of Utah
Matthew Chamberlain, MD
University of Massachusetts, Pediatric resident
Kazumasa Tazawa, MD
Instructor, Saitama Medical Center
Janice Bautista, BS
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Nathan Blazon-Brown, BS
Gene Therapy Analytical Development
Hui Zha, MD, PhD
Staff pediatrician, Tonji University
Yusuke Mitsui, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Miho Shibamura-Fujiogi, MD, PhD
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Staff researcher
Mariel Manzor, BS
Law firm
Wiriya Maisat, MD
Mahidol University clinical staff