Team

Members/Collaborator

Teppei Fujikawa,  Ph.D          

Principal Investigator

Mina Fujitani, Ph.D.           

Instructor

Collaborators at UTSW

Lara Bideyan, Ph.D.
Samuel Heaselgrave, Ph.D.,
Joel K. Elmquist, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor and Director, Center for Hypothalamic Research

Steven Wyler, Ph.D. 

Instructor, Center for Hypothalamic Research

Marco Galvan
Shreya Thomas

Research Assistant, Center for Hypothalamic Research
Research Assistant, Center for Hypothalamic Research

Shin Yamazaki, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Steven Kliewer, Ph.D. 

Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Brain Portillo
Eunsang Hwang, Ph.D.
Kevin Williams, Ph.D. 

Research Assistant
Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate Professor, Center for Hypothalamic Research

Makoto Ishii, M.D., Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology

Luis Sifuentes-Dominguez, M.D.,
Ezra Burstein, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology

Chief and Professor, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases 

Collaborators 

Former Members

Name

Position/Year

Current Position

Lesya White

STARs Intern

High School Science Teacher

Scotlynn Farm

Research Assistant 

Associate Scientist in industry

Stephanie Fedorchak

IBMS student (Dr. Carie Boychuk as co-mentor)

Scientist in industry

Zhen Shi   

Visiting Student  (Xiangya Medical School) /2019-2020

Medical Student at Xiangya Medical School

Ami Harada                   


Visiting Student (Nara Medical University) (2020-Jan-March)

Medical Student at Nara Medical University

Ashish K. Singha

Postdoc/2017-2019

Scientist in India

Takuya Yoshida 

Visiting Scientist (University of Shizuoka), (2018-2019)

Associate Professor at Kumamoto Prefecture University 

Tomoya Komeda 

Visiting Student (Nara Medical University, 2019-Jan-March) 

Medical Student at Nara Medical University

Nancy S. Gonzalez       

Research Assistant (2017-2019)

Forensic Scientist 

Harun A. Khan 

Summer Student 2018 (St Mary's University) 

Veterinary Medical Student 

Iztel Flores


IBMS rotation student (2017)

Graduate student at UTHSA