Members
Principal Investigator
DVM, MPVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
Research Scientists
Shino Yoshida
DVM
shino.yoshida@wsu.edu
Shino Yoshida finished her BVSc degree at the University of Tokyo in Japan. After graduation, she completed two years of small animal rotating internship and then started a small animal specialty internship in internal medicine at the Hokkaido University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Japan. She loves small animal internal medicine, particularly gastrointestinal diseases and their treatments, including fecal microbiota transplantation, aiming at conducting bench-to-bedside research.
Minae Kawasaki
BVSc, PhD
minae.kawasaki@wsu.edu
Minae Kawasaki obtained her BVSc at the University of Sydney in Australia and started her career as a clinical veterinarian in small animal practices. Meanwhile, she also served as a research assistant where she studied in-vitro disease models of the cornea as well as clinical and comparative ophthalmology in animals. She received her Ph.D. degree in Veterinary Science at the United Graduate School of Veterinary Science, Yamaguchi University, in Japan, in March 2022. Her current interests include organoids, organ-on-a-chip, disease-on-a-chip, and translational research.
Meg Nakazawa
BVSc, PhD
meg.nakazawa@wsu.edu
Meg Nakazawa completed her BVSc degree at Nihon University in Japan. After her graduation, she worked as a staff veterinarian at Nihon University Animal Medical Center. In March 2023, Meg successfully earned her Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine at Nihon University. Her current interests include gastrointestinal diseases in dogs, dog leukocyte antigen, organoids, organ-on-a-chip and translational research. In her free time, she enjoys winter activities such as skiing and snowboarding.
Graduate Students
Matthew Wun
DVM
MS student
Veterinary Resident, Internal Medicine Small Animal
Gerald Dykstra
DVM
Ph.D. candidate
Alumni
Dr. Takashi Goyama, Rotating Intern at Oregon State University, ECFVG® Certified in May 2023
Dr. Yurika Tachibana, Radiology Oncology Intern at Iowa State University
Dr. Itsuma Nagao, PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo