Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Lab Members
Takaaki Kuwajima, Ph.D
Principal Investigator
2023-
2018-2023
2015-2017
2006-2013
2014
2006
2001
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University (Przedborski lab)
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University (Henderson lab)
Postdoctoral and Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University (Mason lab)
Ph.D [Biological Science], Osaka University (Yoshikawa lab)
BS [Organic Chemistry], Ritsumeikan University (Tamiaki lab)
Kristin Hsieh
Undergraduate Student
2022-
2021-
Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
BS, University of Pittsburgh
Jade Steber
Undergraduate Student
2023-
2020-
Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
BS, University of Pittsburgh
Serena Arnold
Undergraduate Student
2023-
2022-
Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
BS, University of Pittsburgh
Former Members
Rody Kingston
Research technician: 2018 - 2020
Now: Ph.D Student -> Research Tech @ University of Pittsburgh
Smrithi Shyam
Summer research intern (high school student): July - Aug, 2022
Now: Undergraduate student @
University of Pennsylvania
Fumika Ando
Visiting Undergraduate: Dec, 2019 - Jan, 2020, July - August, 2020
Now: Research Tech @ NYU Langone Health
Dwarkesh Amin
Undergraduate, MS student and Research technician: 2019 - 2022
Sneha Misra
Undergraduate: 2019 - 2022
Now: Master student @ Eastern Virginia Medical School
Gregory Campbell
Research technician: 2020 - 2023
Now: Ph.D Student @ Pennsylvania State University
Manjiri Palayekar
Undergraduate: 2021 - 2023
