Members
Principal Investigator
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Knut Woltjen
准教授
Associate Professor
Knut Woltjen is an Associate Professor of CiRA, where he conducts research on human genome editing and cellular reprogramming.
He is a graduate of the University of Alberta (B.Sc. in Molecular Genetics) and University of Calgary (Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). He is a MEXT Scholarship recipient and Alumnus of the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. During his graduate studies he developed a method for rapid gene targeting vector construction using bacteriophage-plasmid recombination, and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto he created the world’s first footprint-free mouse and human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using piggyBac transposons. With 25 years of experience in stem cell genome editing, Dr. Woltjen aims to understand how to engineer genome sequence to regulate genome function.
Research Staff
李 壽智
Suji Lee
特定研究員
Program-Specific Researcher
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Gabriel Martínez-Gálvez
特定研究員
Program-Specific Researcher
ファン・チー
Qi Fang
特定研究員
Program-Specific Researcher
家⼸ 紗⽮⾹
Sayaka Kayumi
特定研究員
CiRAフェローシップ
Program-Specific Researcher
福田 幹子
Mikiko Fukuda
特定研究員
Program-Specific Researcher
Graduate Students
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H. Ishrat Fatima
博士課程・MIP履修生
MEXT国費外国人留学生
Ph.D. student・WISE MIP
MEXT Research Student
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Xiaoyan Ren
博士課程・MIP履修生
Ph.D. Program・WISE MIP
松井 かずさ
Kazusa Matsui
修士課程
Master’s Program
渋江 省吾
Shogo Shibue
博士課程
Ph.D. Program
ファン・カレン カイリン
Karen Kai-Lin Hwang
修士課程
MEXT国費外国人留学生
Master’s Program
MEXT Research student
Technical Staff
松本 智子
Tomoko Matsumoto
特定職員
Specialist Technical Staff
小野 美幸
Miyuki Ono
特定職員
Specialist Technical Staff
Research Students / Undergraduate Students
遠藤 志穂子
Shihoko Endo
学部生
MD研究者育成プログラム
Undergraduate student
MD Researcher Course
阿部 ちひろ
Chihiro Abe
学部生
Undergraduate student
Previous members
| Name | Position / Degree’s received | Membership period |
| Ryo Niwa, Ph.D. | Master’s + Ph.D. degrees | 2020-2024 |
| Nurfarhana Binti Ferdaos, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2023-2024 |
| Sravan Goparaju, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2021-2023 |
| Mandy Su Yu Lung, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2020-2022 |
| José Fabián Oceguera-Yanez, Ph.D. | Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. | 2013-2022 |
| Thomas Maurissen, Ph.D. | Ph.D. degree | 2017-2020 |
| Janin Grajcarek, Ph.D. | Ph.D. degree | 2017-2020 |
| Harunobu Kagawa, Ph.D. | Ph.D. degree + JSPS Postdoc. Fellow | 2015-2020 |
| Anika Reinhardt, Ph.D. | Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. | 2016-2019 |
| Shin-Il Kim, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2011-2018 |
| Ryoko Hirohata, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2010-2017 |