Yoh-suke Mukouyama, whose legal name is Yosuke Mukoyama, publishes as Yoh-suke Mukouyama. He received his A.B. in pharmacy studies from Tokyo University of Science and his M.S. and Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Tokyo. As a graduate student in the laboratory of Atsushi Miyajima, he studied the properties of embryonic endothelial cells and hematopoietic stem cells. He did postdoctoral research in the laboratory of David Anderson at the California Institute of Technology where he demonstrated that peripheral sensory nerves direct arterial organization in the developing skin; he also studied the properties of neural stem cells (NSCs). Dr. Mukouyama joined the NHLBI as a tenure-track Investigator in 2006 and became a tenured Senior Investigator in 2014.
Research in the laboratory of Yoh-suke Mukouyama is aimed at understanding the fundamental question in the branching morphogenesis and patterning: How is the complex three-dimensional branching network of nervous system and vascular system developed and properly functioned? Researchers in the laboratory of Dr. Mukouyama are using a high-resolution whole-mount imaging technique and genetic tools to mark, map and manipulate neuronal and vascular cell types to understand the processes of neuro-vascular branching morphogenesis and patterning at single-cell resolution.
