Masashi Tabuchi, Ph.D.

K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
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Photo of Masashi Tabuchi, Ph.D.
Institution
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

NINDS K99/R00 Awardee – October 2017
Independent Position:
Case Western Reserve University

Masashi Tabuchi was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University. In the lab of Dr. Mark Wu, Masashi conducted electrophysiological studies in Drosophila to understand how the circadian clock uses neural coding mechanisms to regulate sleep quality. Masashi received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo and his B.S. in Biology from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Currently, Dr. Tabuchi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences in School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.