People

Our joint research team is made up of molecular biologists, electrophysiologists and bioinformaticians combining their brain power in order to demystify the development of the fetal brain.

Principal Investigators

Dr. Kazue Hashimoto-Torii, Ph.D.

Dr. Masaaki Torii, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Dipankar J. Dutta, Ph.D.

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Mohammad Shahid, Ph.D.

Ray Yueh Ku, Ph.D.

Ankush Bansal, Ph.D.

Keiji Sugai, Ph.D.

Satoshi Yamashita, M.D, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

Amy (Hye) Hwang (Grad Student at GWU)

Mohammed D. Akbar (Research Assistant)

Medical/Undergraduate Students

Yasaman Salahmand

Anna Kaji

James Trippet

Diana Vu

Hannah Zikria-Hagenmeier

Pouyan Ahmadi

Ritika Shrivastav

John Peloquin

Alumni Postdoctoral Fellows

Zofia Laziecca, Ph.D. (2015)

Seiji Ishii, Ph.D. (2012-2017)

Aminah Sheikh, Ph.D. (2017-2019)

Alexander I. Son, Ph.D. (2013-2019)

Heather Carryl, Ph.D. (2017-2019)

Toru Sasaki, M.D., Ph.D. (2017-2019)

Junko Sasaki, M.D., Ph.D. (2018-2019)

Lataisia C. Jones, Ph.D. (2017-2020)

Stephen J. Page, Ph.D. (2017-2020)

Alumni Students

Meenu Rajendraprasad (Research Intern at GWU – 2013-2015)

Sara Felsen (Research Intern – 2013-2014)

Snigdha Srivastava (Research Intern – 2013-2014, 2015)

Shelly Sharma (Research Intern – 2013)

Sho Yamada (Research Intern – 2013)

Lyanda Ido (Research Intern – 2014)

Miki Masuda (Research Intern – 2014)

Sujita Basnet (Research Intern – 2014-2015)

Amanda Lim (Research Intern – 2014-2015)

Noriaki Miyazaki (Research Intern – 2014)

Hiroki Naito (Research Intern – 2015)

Susu Zhou (Research Intern – 2015)

Akihiko Nakata (Research Intern – 2016)

Syed Wafa (Research Intern -2016)

Esha Jain (Research Intern – 2016)

Amy Bhatt (Research Intern – 2016)

Vaibhavi Sliamgari (Research Intern – 2016)

Ahmed Shamma (Research Intern – 2017-2018)

Edwin Tomy (Research Intern – 2016-2018)

Vanessa Niba (Gill Fellow at GWU)

Akihisa Igawa (Research Intern – Summer/Fall 2017)

Kaitlin Garofano (Rotation Student at GWU – Spring 2017)

Kelsey Hauser (Rotation Student at GWU – fall 2018)

Aiesha Basha (Research Intern – 2016-2019)

Nicholas Robinson (Research Intern – 2017-2018)

Isaac Han (Research Intern – 2017-2019)

Deepjot Sohal (Research Intern – 2019)

Anne Pierce (Research Intern – 2019)

Zuha Nazir (Research Intern – 2019)

Kazuma Shinno (Research Intern – 2019)

Nicholas Ayvazian (Graduate Student at GWU 2018-2020)

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