Members & Lab photoes

(2024. 04.)

Fumiyo Ikeda
Distinguished professor
ikeda.fumiyo.fbs@osaka-u.ac.jp
Google scholar

Kota Yanagitani
Associate professor
k-yanagitani.fbs@osaka-u.ac.jp
Google scholar

Stephanie Kaypee 
Postdoctoral fellow
kaypee.stephanie.fbs@osaka-u.ac.jp
Google Scholar

Reiko Kamegai
Technical assistant
kamegai-r@office.osaka-u.ac.jp

Hiromi  Nishimura
Technical assistant
nishimura-h@office.osaka-u.ac.jp

Masako Harayama
Personal assistant
harayama-m@office.osaka-u.ac.jp

Undergrads and visiting students

Yuka Takahashi
Undergraduate student (B4 Engineering Science, 2024)

Takuto Nakajima
Undergraduate student (B4 Engineering Science, 2024)

Kento Mitsunari
Undergraduate student (B4 Engineering Science, 2024)

Minori Miyasaka
Undergraduate student (B4 Engineering Science, 2024)

Tatsuya Hasegawa
Undergraduate student (B4 Engineering Science, 2023 & 2024)

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Group photos

2024 03

2023 12

2023 Spring

2022 Summer

2022 08 (moving to Osaka, setting up the 3rd Ikeda Lab)

“no photo: being absolutely t00 busy!!”

2022 Spring (Kota’s JST grant approval)

2021 Summer

2020 Winter

2019 12 MIB, Kyushu Uni (Setting up the 2nd Ikeda Lab)

Farewell dinner with the Ikeda members (2019 11)

Lilian’s PhD defense (2019 11)

2018 Lab @IMBA

2018 at IMBA atrium

2017 at IMBA atrium

2016 Group photo @IMBA

2015 Group photo @ IMBA

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2014 Group photo @ IMBA atrium

2013 Group photo @IMBA balcony

2011 12 IMBA (setting up the 1st Ikeda Lab)

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Members from the past (and the next/current position)

Postdoctoral fellows and staffs

Akiko Okumura (Assis Prof, Kyushu Univ.)
2019-2022
Reserach fellow at Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Tomoko Asaoka (Postdoctoral fellow, IMBA)
2014-2017
Scientific Director, NEWTON BIOCAPITAL, Brussels, Belgium

PhD students

Carlos Gomez Diaz (IMBA)
2017-2021
Postdoctoral fellow at the Gene Center Munich, Germany (Hornung Lab)

Alan Rodriguez (IMBA)
2015-2020
Postdoctoral fellow at Univ of Heidelberg, Germany (Joazeiro Lab)

Lilian (Fennell) Kirwan (IMBA)
2014-2019
Senior research assistant at IMBA, Vienna, Austria (Urban lab)

Younes Redouane (IMBA)
2013-2016
SIBUR International GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Petra Ebner (IMBA)
2013-2018
Senior Clinical Data Manager, ABCSG – Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group, Austria

Master students

Mayu Seida (Rotation, Undergrad @Kyushu Univ. and Master student @FBS Oska Univ)
2021-2023
PhD student, Nagoya University, Japan/ 名古屋大学大学院医学系研究科 分子腫瘍学 鈴木研究室

Iris Bachtrog (Master student and TA, IMBA)
2017-2019
Associate Clinical Operations ManagerAssociate Clinical Operations Manager, Valneva, Vienna, Austria

Franziska Christina Hofer (IMBA)
2017-2018
Project Coordinator at Medpace, Leuven, Belgium

Steven Dupard (IMBA)
2017
PhD Student, Lunds universitet, Faculty of Medicine, Stem Cell Center, Wallenberg Centres for Molecular Medicine, Lund, Sweden

Isabella Poetsch (Master student and TA) (IMBA)
2015 – 2017
Medical Affairs Scientist, Pfizer

Jorge Almagro (VBC Summer student and Master student) (IMBA)
2014, 2016 – 2017
Postdoctoral Fellow at The Rockefeller University, New York, United States (Elaine Fuchs lab)

Christine Ehrhardt (IMBA)
2013-2014
Institut für Medizinische Genetik und angewandte Genomik Tübingen, Germany

Stefan Lutzmayer (IMBA)
2012-2013
Thought Leadership Sr. Consultant at IQVIA, Vienna, Austria

Undergrad students

Asato Uenosono (B4 Engineering Science, Osaka Univ.)
2023 04-2024 03
日亜化学工業株式会社(徳島)/ Nichia (Tokushima)

TAs

Haruna Nezu (Kyushu Univ. and Osaka Univ.)
2022-2023
リージョナルフィッシュ株式会社 @Kyoto Univ, Kyoto, Japan

Hitomi Kawano (Kyushu Univ.)
2021
in Japan

Anna Szydlowska (IMBA)
2019
CRA at Clinical Research Organization in Vienna, Austria

Olga Olszanska (IMBA)
2018-2019
Wissenschaftlicher AssistentWissenschaftlicher Assistent, Vetmeduni, Vienna, Austria

Naoko Hisanaga (IMBA)
2019
TA at IMP, Vienna, Austria (Tanaka Lab)

Luiza Deszcz (IMBA)
2015-2019
TA at IMP, Vienna, Austria (Clausen Lab)

Katrin Schodl (IMBA)
2017-2019
Clinical Research Associate, Clinical Trials Management GmbH , Vienna, Austria

Ryoko Shiraishi (IMBA)
2013-2015
in Japan

Concepcion Martinez (IMBA)
2012- 2014
Senior Lab manager at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida, USA (Nimer Lab)

Personal Assistants

Mami Kambe (Kyushu Univ.)
2021-2022
in Japan

Yu Okuma (Kyushu Univ.)
2019-2021
in Japan

VBC Summer School students

Irini Dijkhoff (IMBA)
2017
Associate ConsultantAssociate Consultant, Catalyze Group, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Michaela Morlock (IMBA)
2016
Market Access Consultant, SmartStep Consulting GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

Franziska Teusel (IMBA)
2012
PhD student at University of Konstanz, Germany (Mayer Lab)

Visiting Students

Toshiki Juno (Engineering Science student, Osaka Univ.)
2022 B2, 2023 B3

Tagawa (Engineering Science student, Osaka Univ.)
2022, B2

Takase (Engineering Science student, Osaka Univ.)
2022, B2

Yasui (Engineering Science student, Osaka Univ.)
2022, B2

Tobias Kornthaler (IMBA)
2015, internship student