Interview | Brain Research Institute, Niigata University

Young Scientists

2021.01.01

Rie Saito

Dr Rie Saito obtained her MD degree from Niigata university and joined a neurology residency program at Toranomon Hospital before starting her PhD at Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences. She studied neuropathology at BRI and is currently working as a neuropathologist in the Dept of Pathology Neuroscience.
Young Scientists

2021.01.01

Motokazu Uchigashima

Dr Uchigashima obtained his PhD from Hokkaido University and worked as an assistant professor at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, followed by a visiting scholar at University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is currently working on research on the distribution of synaptic molecules in the BRI Department of Cellular Neuropathology.
Female Scientists

2018.02.01

Yuriko Iwakura

In the central nervous system, "neurotransmitters" are vital for normal transmission, and so are "neurotrophic factors" for regulating the survival and growth of neurons. Recent studies show that they don't only independently but mutually regulate one another by means of "cross talk".