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Hiromu Yawo

1974: M.D. Kyoto University School of Medicine
1981: Ph.D. (1984): Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
1981-1981: Postdoctoral Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JST)
1981-1993: Assistant Professor of Physiology, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1985-1987: McDonnell Research Fellow of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
1993-1994: Lecturer of Physiology, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1995-2018: Professor of Neurophysiology and Center for Neuroscience, Tohoku University School of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine
1999-2005: JST-CREST, Research director (Research area, Understanding the Brain)
2001-2018: Professor of Developmental Biology and Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences
2018-2019: Visiting Researcher, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences
2019-present: Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), The University of Tokyo

Research theme
Optogenetics

Publications
Original papers

Physical Disuse Contributes to Widespread Chronic Mechanical Hyperalgesia, Tactile Allodynia, and Cold Allodynia through Neurogenic Inflammation and Spino-Parabrachio-Amygdaloid Pathway Activation
Yusuke Ohmichi†,*, Mika Ohmichi†, Ryoichi Tashima, Koji Osuka, Kaori Fukushige, Dominika Kanikowska, Yugo Fukazawa, Hiromu Yawo, Makoto Tsuda, Munekazu Naito, Takashi Nakano. (2020) Pain, in press
doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001867. (†: Equally contributed)
Optogenetic Analysis of Respiratory Neuronal Networks in The Ventral Medulla of Neonatal Rats Producing Channelrhodopsin in Phox2b-Positive Cells
Keiko Ikeda, Hiroyuki Igarashi, Hiromu Yawo, Kazuto Kobayashi, Satoru Arata, Kiyoshi Kawakami, Masahiko Izumizaki, Hiroshi Onimaru. (2019) Pflügers Arch, 471, issue 11-12, pp 1419-1439
doi: 10.1007/s00424-019-02317-9

Review papers

Awards