Researcher Information in the New England Region(PI List)

The New England region, including Boston, is home to one of the world’s leading concentrations of research institutions in fields such as life sciences, biotechnology, AI, quantum science, and energy. Many Japanese researchers are working at the forefront of these fields.

At the Consulate-General of Japan in Boston, we believe that strengthening connections among researchers—both within the region and with Japan—is essential for deepening Japan–U.S. collaboration and, ultimately, for enhancing Japan’s national capabilities. With this in mind, we are compiling a list of Japanese Principal Investigators (PIs) who are active in New England. A PI (Principal Investigator) is the lead researcher responsible for overseeing a laboratory or research group at a university or research institution.

This list will be shared with relevant ministries, agencies, and universities in Japan. By supporting young people interested in pursuing research opportunities abroad and assisting Japanese universities seeking international research collaboration, the list aims to contribute to strengthening Japan’s foundational scientific and technological capabilities.

For PIs included in the list, we anticipate that stronger ties with Japan will enhance their ability to attract talented personnel and elevate the presence of Japanese researchers within their host institutions. The Consulate will also provide opportunities for Japan-related networking and exchange.

● Contacting Registered Researchers (PIs)
To contact individual researchers, please refer to the URLs provided in the rightmost column of the list.
When reaching out to a PI using the PI List as your point of reference, please include [PI List] in the subject line of your email.

If the PI List leads to new arrangements—such as hosting students from Japan, forming international joint research projects, or other concrete collaborations—please inform us. The continuation and expansion of this initiative rely on your feedback and on the accumulation of success stories arising from the list. We sincerely request your cooperation.

● For PIs in the New England Region Who Wish to Be Added to the List
If you are a Japanese researcher residing in the New England area and serving as a Principal Investigator (PI) at a university or research institution, and you would like to be included in this list, please contact us.

No.	State	Name(JPN)	Name（ENG)	Title	Affiliated Institution	Department / Faculty	Research Field / Area	URL
1	MA	飯島 弘貴	Hirotaka Iijima	Assistant Professor	Harvard Medical School	Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	Aging, Mechanobiology, Musculoskeletal diseases, Menopause, Rehabilitation, Network medicine	https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XAQHfdwAAAAJ
2	MA	長谷川耕平	Kohei Hasegawa	Professor / Sr. Global Clinical Development Strategy Expert	Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital / Sanofi	Department of Emergency Medicine / Sanofi Vaccines R&D	Vaccinology, immunology	https://koheihasegawa.com/
3	MA	大内 啓	Kei Ouchi	Associate Professor	Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School	Emergency Medicine	Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care	https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/125411
4	MA	塩田 敏博	Toshi Shioda	Associate Professor of Medicine, Principal Investigator	Harvard Medical School / Mass General Brigham	Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research	Germ Cell Biology	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1D1sjh86blk/bibliography/public/
5	MA	堀田 亮	Ryo Hotta	Assistant Professor	Harvard Medical School	Department of Surgery	Cell therapy, regenerative medicine, gastrointestinal disease, pediatric surgery, developmental biology	https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/112455
6	MA	小野 周平	Shuhei Ono	Schlumberger Professor of Geochemistry Chair, Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology Program	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences	Aquatic and Atmospheric Chemistry, Stable Isotope, Spectroscopy	https://ono.mit.edu/
7	MA	荻野 周史	Shuji Ogino	American Cancer Society Professor; Chief of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE) Program	Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Institute of Science Tokyo	Department of Pathology, BWH; Department of Epidemiology, HSPH	pathology, epidemiology, microbiology, immunology, molecular pathological epidemiology, bioinformatics, nutrition, environmental sciences	https://www.ogino-mpe.org; https://oginolab.bwh.harvard.edu/; https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/3507
8	NH	中山 佳洋	Yoshihiro Nakayama	Assistant Professor	Dartmouth College	Thayer School of Engineering	Oceanography, Polar Science, Earth Science	https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/community/faculty/yoshihiro-nakayama
9	CT	丸山 玲奈	Reina Maruyama	Professor	Yale University	Physics	Particle Nuclear & Astrophysics	https://maruyama-lab.yale.edu
10	CT	是永 淳	Jun Korenaga	Professor	Yale University	Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences	Earth and Planetary Sciences	https://earth.yale.edu/profile/jun-korenaga
11	CT	岩切 泰子	Yasuko Iwakiri	Professor of Medicine	Yale University School of Medicine	Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases	Liver biology, liver diseases and vascular biology of the liver	https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/yasuko-iwakiri/
12	MA	脇本 浩明	Hiroaki Wakimoto	Associate professor of Neurosurgery	Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School	Neurosurgery	Preclinical and translational development of treatments for central nervous system neoplasms	https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KSf5JiQAAAAJ&hl=en
13	MA	後藤 あや	Aya Goto	Taro Takemi Professor of the Practice of International Community Health	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Department of Global Health and Population	Public health, reproductive health, maternal and child health, health literacy, capacity building	https://hsph.harvard.edu/fellowship-special-program/takemi/
14	RI	樽井 智	Tomo Tarui	Associate Director of Pediatric Neurology, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology	The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University / Hasbro Children's	Divison of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics	Fetal neuroimaging and genomics. Prenatal diagnosis. Impact of maternal health on fetal development.	https://vivo.brown.edu/display/ttarui
15	CT	富田 進	Susumu Tomita	Professor	Yale University School of Medicine	Department of Neuroscience and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology	Neuroscience, synaptic transmission	https://wti.yale.edu/profile/susumu-tomita
16	MA	河合 達郎	Tatsuro Kawai	Director, Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplant Tolerance, MGH, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School	Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School	Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery	Organ Transplantation, Transplant Immunology	https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/60693, https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/16908/tatsuo-kawai, https://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/cts/research/cosimi-kawai-laboratory
17	CT	住田 智一	Tomokazu Sumida	Assistant professor	Yale University School of Medicine	Neurology	Neurology, Immunobiology, Genetics	https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/sumida/
18	MA	樋口 雅也	Masaya Higuchi	Instructor in Medicine	Harvard Medical School/MGH	Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine	Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine	https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/172377
19	MA	徳田 淳一	Junichi Tokuda	Associate Professor of Radiology	Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School	Department of Radiology	Medical robotics, image-guided therapy, magnetic resonance imaging, medical image computing	https://tokuda-lab.bwh.harvard.edu
20	MA	安原 進吾	Shingo Yasuhara	Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator	Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Harvard Medical School	Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine	Critical Illnesses (Burn injury, sepsis, etc), Muscular Dystrophy, Muscle Wasting, Sarcopenia, Metabolic dysfunctions, Microscopy, Mitochondrial dysfunctions, Autophagy, Mitophagy, Cytoskeletal Netowrk, Vesicular Trafficking, Drug Discovery, Aging
21	MA	海道 宏明	Hiroaki Kaido	Associate Professor	Boston University	Department of Economics	Econometrics	https://people.bu.edu/hkaido
22	MA	山下 由起子	Yukiko Yamashita	Professor (MIT), Member (Whitehead Institute), Investigator (HHMI)	MIT/Whitehead Institute/HHMI	Biology	Biology	https://yamashitalab.wi.mit.edu
23	MA	今井 耕介	Kosuke Imai	Professor of Government and of Statistics, Harvard University	Harvard University	Department of Government; Department of Statistics	statistics, AI, computational social science	https://imai.fas.harvard.edu/
24	MA	荒井 健	Ken Arai	Associate Professor	Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital	Radiology	Neuroscience	https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/2681
25	MA	鵜飼 知嵩	Tomotaka Ugai	Investigator at Harvard, Division Chair at National Cancer Center (Cross-appointment)	Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, National Cancer Center	Department of Epidemiology (HSPH), Division of Integrative Cancer Research (NCC)	Cancer Epidemiology	https://hsph.harvard.edu/profile/tomotaka-ugai/, https://www.ncc.go.jp/en/ri/division/integrative_cancer_research/index.html
26	MA	市瀬 史	Fumito Ichinose	William Thomas Green Morton Professor of Anesthesia	Massachusetts General hospital, Harvard Medical School	Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine	Neuroprotection, Gas biology, Mitochondria	https://researchers.mgh.harvard.edu/profile/1528484/Fumito-Ichinose
27	MA	石井 裕	Hiroshi Ishii	Professor	MIT Media Lab	Tangible Media Group	HCI	https://tangible.media.mit.edu/person/hiroshi-ishii/
28	MA	内田 舞	Mai Uchida	Director of Pediatric Depression/ Associate Professor for Psychiatry	Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School	Medicine, Psychiatry	Psychiatry, clinical research, neuroimaging	https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/101424
29	MA	金子ー樽井 智子	Tomoko Kaneko Tarui	Lab Director/Assistant professor	Tufts Medical Center/ Tufts University School of Medicine	Dept of OB GYN	Parental obesity, offspring health, stem cells, glucose signaling	https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninkatsu/
30	MA	石井 水晶	Miaki Ishii	Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences	Harvard University	Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences	geophysics	http://seismology.harvard.edu
31	MA	諸熊 淳治	Junji Morokuma	Assistant Professor	Tufts University School of Dental Medicine	Basic and Clinical Translational Sciences	Dry Eyes/Dry Mouth, Sjogren's Disease, autoimmune diseases	https://www.linkedin.com/in/junji-morokuma/
32	MA	持田 ガネシュワラン仁司	Ganeshwaran Hitoshi Mochida	Staff Physician and Principal Investigator	Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School	Division of Genetics and Genomics	Developmental brain disorders	https://research.childrenshospital.org/researchers/ganeshwaran-mochida
33	MA	梶村 真吾	Shingo Kajimura	Professor	Harvard Medical School	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Molecular Biology, Bioenegetics	https://ogephd.hms.harvard.edu/people/shingo-kajimura
34	MA	柏木 哲	Satoshi Kashiwagi	Assistant Professor of Radiology	Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School	Center for Inflammation Imaging, Department of Radiology	Near-infrared imaging, image-guided surgery, image-guided therapy	https://sites.google.com/view/mgh-nova/principal-investigators/satoshi-kashiwagi