Yoichi Osawa, Ph.D.

Associate Chair, Innovation and Wellness
Professor of Pharmacology
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor in Medicine

Office: 1301A MSRB III

Lab: 1323 MSRB III

Office: 734-936-5797 Lab: 734-936-5765

Areas of Interest

Protein folding diseases; Hsp90, Hsp70; molecular chaperones; nitric oxide synthase; ubiquitination and protein quality control; reactive metabolites and mass spectrometry.

Honors & Awards

National and Institutional

  • Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006
  • Henry Russel Award for Scholarly Research and Teaching, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI , 2002
  • Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, 2001
  • New Investigator Award in Toxicology from the Burroughs Welcome Fund, 1997
  • Research Starter Award from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Foundation, 1996
  • Best Paper Award in Drug Metabolism and Disposition from ASPET (co-authored with Minor J. Coon), 1990
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship from the John E. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, 1987-1989
  • Predoctoral Fellowship Award from The Upjohn Company, 1983-1984
  • Horace H. Rackham Minority Fellowship, 1982-1986
  • N.I.H. Predoctoral Fellow in Pharmacological Sciences, 1982

Credentials

Education

Ph.D., Pharmacology, University of Michigan
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Post-Doctoral Training

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989-1995
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chemical Pharmacology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1987-1989

Published Articles or Reviews

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