Kohei Okuyama

University of Michigan, Japan

Short Bio
  • Dr. Okuyama is a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Lei’s lab of translational immunology. He received his Bachelor’s in Dentistry from Tohoku University, Japan, and later received his Ph.D. in Department of Maxillofacial Surgery from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Japan. After Ph.D., he worked as an Assistant Professor and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at the Department of Clinical Oral Oncology, Nagasaki University, Japan. He, then, came back to TMDU as a Project Assistant professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Since 2021, he has belonged to University of Michigan to understand the establishment of immune tolerance of transforming epithelial cells as a function of time.