Past Scientists
Dr Kazu Kikuchi
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Dr Kazu Kikuchi worked at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute from 2011 to 2019 as the head of the Cardiac Regeneration Laboratory. He was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, and Conjoint Senior Lecturer, St Vincent’s Clinical School, University of New South Wales.
He graduated from the Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan, in 1999 and completed his PhD at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in 2003. Upon finishing his thesis, he studied as a post-doctoral fellow in Motonari Kondo’s Lab at Duke University in the US, and later went on to study organ regeneration in Ken Poss’ lab, also at Duke University.
In 2019 Kazu made the decision to return to his homeland, Japan, where he continues to work closely with scientists at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute to jointly advance research into heart regeneration, namely a major breakthrough which was published in 2021.
Professor Sally Dunwoodie
Deputy Director, Innovation Centre
Head, Embryology Laboratory
Professor Richard Harvey
Deputy Director
Head, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Professor Diane Fatkin
Head, Inherited Heart Disease Laboratory
Associate Professor Eleni Giannoulatou
Head, Computational Genomics Laboratory
Acknowledgement of Country
The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land, the Gadigal of the Eora nation, on which we meet, work, and discover.
Our Western Australian laboratories pay their respect to the Whadjuk Noongar who remain as the ongoing spiritual and cultural custodians of their land.
