Lab Members
Annie (So Yeon) Kim is a postdoctoral scientist in the Cedars-Sinai Department of Medicine. She studied liver immunology and metabolism during her master's/doctorate integrated course at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. From this study, she investigated the roles of hepatic macrophages via Toll-like receptor 4 and NADPH oxidase 2 in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Kim joined the Seki Laboratory in 2018. She is currently working on the study of liver disease including NAFLD/NASH and ASH.
Jieun Kim, PhD, is a postdoctoral scientist in the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai. She received her doctorate degree from Pusan National University in the Republic of Korea. Kim joined the Seki Laboratory in 2020. She is currently working on the study of mechanisms in liver metastasis.
Michi is a physician-scientist with a clinical background in gastroenterology and hepatology. He received his medical degree at Yokohama City University in Japan, and graduate degree at University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine. He has a strong research background in liver immunology and liver fibrosis research.
Vijay Pandyarajan, MD, PhD, is a research fellow in the Department of Digestive and Liver Diseases at Cedars-Sinai. He received his medical and graduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Pandyarajan joined the Seki Laboratory in 2018. His research interests are in the microbiome of the gut and its relationship to fatty liver disease.
Sam is a postdoctoral scientist in the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai. He received his doctorate degree from the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, India. Sam joined the Seki Laboratory in 2024. He is currently working on the study of hepatocyte senescence and steatotic liver disease.
Alumni Lab Members
- Lien Reolizo, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist
- Young-Sun Lee, MD, PhD, Visiting Project Scientist
- Michitaka Matsuda, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist
- Zhijun Wang, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist
- Wei Tu, MD, PhD, Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist
- Qinglan Wang, PhD, Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist
- Yoon Mee Yang, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist
- Koichiro Ohashi, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist
- Mingyi Xu, MD, PhD, Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist
- Junghan Kim, MD, PhD, Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist
- I-Fang Hsin, MD, Visiting Graduate Student
- Yoon Seok, Roh, DVM, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist
- Hiroshi Matsushita, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist
- Ryosuke Uchiyama, PhD, Visiting Project Scientist
- Daisuke Takemoto, Visiting Research Associate
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Davis Building, Rooms 2099, 2029
Los Angeles, CA 90048