Ryuji Ohashi (Nippon Medical School)

2020-Present: Professor, Nippon Medical School, Department of Pathology

2011-2020: Associate Professor, Nippon Medical School, Department of Pathology

2009-2011: Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Pathology

2008-2009: Clinical Fellow, University of Washington, Department of Pathology

2005-2008: Resident, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Pathology

My research interests focus on mechanisms of glomerular and vascular disease of the kidney, in the perspective of endothelial cell injury. As a surgical pathologist, I am also interested in discovery of new biomarkers for malignant tumors such as breast and thyroid cancers.

1. Fukui M, Ohashi R, Tsuruoka S et al. (2015) Glomerular endothelial cell injury and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis lesion in idiopathic membranous nephropathy. PLoS One. April 15;10 (4): e0116700.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116700.

2. Shimizu A, Ohashi R, Morioka T et al. (2013) Renal inflammatory changes in acute hepatic failure-associated acute kidney injury. Am J Nephrol 37:378-88.

3. Kaneko T, Ohashi R, Fukuda Y et al. (2012) Role of matrix metalloproteinase-2 in recovery after tubular damage in acute kidney injury in mice. Nephron Exp Nephrol 122:23-35.

4. Sadlier DM, Ohashi R, Johnson RJ et al. (2005) Microarray and bioinformatic detection of novel and established genes expressed in experimental anti-Thy1 nephritis. Kidney Int 68:2542-61.

5. Ohashi R, Yamanaka N et al. (2002) Peritubular capillary regression during the progression of experimental obstructive nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephol 13:1795-805.