Kyohei Fujitan, Ph.D.

Dr. Fujita studied biomedical engineering at Yamagata University (Japan) in the Department of Bio-Systems Engineering and obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in 2013. Next, he obtained his Doctor of Engineering in 2018 from Yamagata University in the Department of Bioengineering under Dr. Zhonggang Feng’s supervision. During his doctoral studies, he evaluated effects of the mechanical properties of ventricular ECM hydrogel on cellular behavior and on human iPSCs differentiation into subtype cardiomyocytes including ventricular-, atrial-, and nodal myocyte. In 2016, he has interned at the Frazer lab to learn high-throughput cardiac differentiation of hiPSCs for 6 months as an overseas internship in 5 year-doctoral program of Innovative Flex Course for Frontier Organic Material Systems at Yamagata University. Through the internship, he got an interest in identifying functional genetic variants influencing human diseases.
As a postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Fujita joined the Frazer lab in August 2018, where he has been working on the identification of genetic alternations associated with development of type I diabetes using human iPSCs-derived pancreatic progenitor cells.