Mikami, Kentaro
Dr. Kentaro Mikami joined Dr. Elena Aikawa’s group at Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences (CICS) in March 2018. He is currently working to identify novel therapeutic targets of cardiovascular calcification. In 2013, he obtained his Ph.D. from Tokyo University of Science in the lab of Prof. Yoshikazu Higami, where he researched the relationship between adipocytes and autophagy. After receiving Ph.D., he entered to Kowa Company, Ltd. and assigned in pharmacology research dept. at Tokyo New Drug Research Laboratories.