Osawa Lab

Welcome to Osawa Lab

Our lab is interested in Protein folding diseases; Hsp90, Hsp70; molecular chaperones; nitric oxide synthase; ubiquitination and protein quality control; reactive metabolites and mass spectrometry.

About Dr. Osawa

Yoichi Osawa, Ph.D.

Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor in Medicine

Director, Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Facility

Professor of Pharmacology

Co-Director, Chaperone Hub, Protein Folding Disease Initiative

B.S., Chemistry, MIT

Ph.D., Pharmacology, Univ. of Michigan

Postdoctoral, NHLBI, NIH

Interests:

Chemical Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism, Toxicology,

Reactive Intermediates, Nitric Oxide, Free Radicals,

Hsp90, Hsp70, Chaperones, Protein Folding Diseases,

Pharmacological Chaperones

Honors and Awards:

Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan

Established Investigator of the American Heart Association

Burroughs Wellcome Toxicology Award

Outreach:

Yamaguchi University Medical Student Exchange Program