Members | Leducq Fellows
Yukiko Endo, MD, PhD 

Yukiko Endo, MD, PhD (Yukiko) is a postdoctoral fellow in Hiro Nakauchi’s lab at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU).  She is a specialist in general and gastrointestinal surgery. Her primary focus as Leducq Fellow is directed towards the engineering of exogenic organs in gene edited mice.  Specifically, she uses blastocyst complementation, iPSCs and gene editing focused on the pancreas to engineer humanized organs.

Representative publications include:

Mitsugashira H, Imura T, Inagaki A, Endo Y, Katano T, Saito R, Miyagi S, Watanabe K, Kamei T, Unno M, Goto M. Development of a novel method for measuring tissue oxygen pressure to improve the hypoxic condition in subcutaneous islet transplantation. Sci Rep. 2022;12(1):14731. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-19189-2. PMID:36042259. go to article

Saito R, Inagaki A, Nakamura Y, Imura T, Kanai N, Mitsugashira H, Endo Y, Katano T, Suzuki S, Tokodai K, Kamei T, Unno M, Watanabe K, Tabata Y, Goto M. Ideal Duration of Pretreatment Using a Gelatin Hydrogel Nonwoven Fabric Prior to Subcutaneous Islet Transplantation. Cell Transplant. 2023; 32:09636897231186063. doi:10.1177/09636897231186063. PMID:37466120. go to article

Endo KY, Fujio A, Murakami K, Sasaki K, Miyazawa K, Kashiwadate T, Tokodai K, Miyagi S, Fujishima F, Unno M, Kamei T. Long-term survival of an adult patient with undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver with multidisciplinary treatment: a case report and literature review. Surgical Case Reports, 2022;8:85. PMID:35508823. go to article