New postdoc fellow joins NUS group to study in vivo physiology of p75NTR signaling

Kazuhiro Tanaka obtained a PhD in Pharmacy  in 2005 from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Japan, under the direction of Prof. Akemichi Baba, for studies on PACAP signaling and its effects on behavior. He subsequently did postdoctoral studies on astrocyte biology and patophysiology under Dr. Yutaka Koyama at Osaka-Ohtani University and on stroke models under Prof. Ong Wei Yi at the Department of Pharmacology, National Uniersity of Singapore. His new studies will focus on elucidating the physiological functions of death receptor signaling in the developing and injured nervous system using mouse models carrying mutations in the p75ntr gene.