# Members

**Source**: https://woltjen.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/
**Parent**: https://woltjen.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp

### **Principal Investigator**

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Knut Woltjen\

准教授\
 Associate Professor

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Knut Woltjen is an Associate Professor of CiRA, where he conducts research on human genome editing and cellular reprogramming. \
He is a graduate of the University of Alberta (B.Sc. in Molecular Genetics) and University of Calgary (Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). He is a MEXT Scholarship recipient and Alumnus of the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. During his graduate studies he developed a method for rapid gene targeting vector construction using bacteriophage-plasmid recombination, and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto he created the world’s first footprint-free mouse and human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using piggyBac transposons. With 25 years of experience in stem cell genome editing, Dr. Woltjen aims to understand how to engineer genome sequence to regulate genome function.\

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### Research Staff

李 壽智\
Suji Lee

特定研究員\

Program-Specific Researcher

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Gabriel Martínez-Gálvez

特定研究員\

Program-Specific Researcher

ファン・チー\
Qi Fang

特定研究員\

Program-Specific Researcher

家⼸ 紗⽮⾹\
Sayaka Kayumi

特定研究員\
CiRAフェローシップ

Program-Specific Researcher

### **Graduate Students**

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H. Ishrat Fatima

博士課程・MIP履修生\
MEXT国費外国人留学生\

Ph.D. student・WISE MIP\
MEXT Research Student

任 笑言\
Xiaoyan Ren

博士課程・MIP履修生\
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Ph.D. Program・WISE MIP\
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松井 かずさ\
Kazusa Matsui

修士課程\
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Master’s Program\

渋江 省吾\
Shogo Shibue

博士課程\
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Ph.D. Program\

ファン・カレン カイリン\
Karen Kai-Lin Hwang

修士課程\
MEXT国費外国人留学生\

Master’s Program\
MEXT Research student

### **Technical Staff**

松本 智子\
Tomoko Matsumoto

特定職員

Specialist Technical Staff

小野 美幸\
Miyuki Ono

特定職員

Specialist Technical Staff

### Research Students / **Undergraduate Students**

遠藤 志穂子 \
Shihoko Endo

学部生\
MD研究者育成プログラム

Undergraduate student\
MD Researcher Course

阿部 ちひろ \
Chihiro Abe

学部生\

Undergraduate student\

### Previous members

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| **Name** | **Position / Degree’s received** | **Membership period** |
| Ryo **Niwa**, Ph.D. | Master’s + Ph.D. degrees | 2020-2024 |
| Nurfarhana **Binti Ferdaos**, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2023-2024 |
| Sravan **Goparaju**, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2021-2023 |
| Mandy Su Yu **Lung**, Ph.D. | Program-Specific Researcher | 2020-2022 |
| José Fabián **Oceguera-Yanez**, Ph.D. | Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. | 2013-2022 |
| Thomas **Maurissen**, Ph.D. | Ph.D. degree | 2017-2020 |
| Janin **Grajcarek**, Ph.D. | Ph.D. degree | 2017-2020 |
| Harunobu **Kagawa**, Ph.D. | Ph.D. degree + JSPS Postdoc. Fellow | 2015-2020 |
| Anika **Reinhardt**, Ph.D. | Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. | 2011-2018 |
| Shin-Il **Kim**, Ph.D. | Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. | 2010-2020 |