Hamada Lab

Fumika Hamada, PhD

Principal Investigator
Phone: 513-803-1662
Email: fumika.hamada@cchmc.org
Fumika Hamada is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Ophthalmology. She received a BS, MS and PhD, all in biology, from Tokyo University of Science in 1999, 2001 and 2004, respectively. She moved to Harvard Medical School where she conducted postdoctoral research in biology and genetics from 2004-2005 with Mitzi Kuroda, PhD. In 2005, she continued postdoctoral research at Brandeis University in neurobiology with Paul Garrity, PhD.  In September 2009, she began her own lab at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. 

Lauren Head, BS

Research Assistant II
Phone: 513-803-1673
E-mail: lauren.head2@cchmc.org
Lauren Head graduated from Xavier University in December 2010 with a BS in biology with minors in chemistry and peace studies. While an undergraduate, Head worked for Yutaka Yoshida in Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children’s as a laboratory aide from 2008-2010 and for Fumika Hamada as a SURF student in the summer of 2010. 

Haruna Kaneko, PhD

Research Fellow
Phone: 513-803-1673
E-mail: haruna.kaneko@cchmc.org
Haruna Kaneko received a BS in biology in 2002 and an MS in biology in 2004, both at Tokyo University of Science. She transferred to Tokyo Medical and Dental University, where she graduated with a PhD in medical sciences in 2008. She began working in the Hamada lab in October 2009.
 

Xin Tang , PhD

Research Fellow
Phone: 513-803-1673
E-mail: xin.tang@cchmc.org
Xin Tang received her BS in China. In 2010, she graduated from Vanderbilt University with a PhD in neuroscience. Before coming to Cincinnati Children’s to work as a research fellow, she studied the modulation of the GABAA ligand-gated ion channel by protein phosphorylation under the supervision of Robert  Macdonald, MD, PhD. 

Michael Platt

Laboratory Aide
Phone: 513-803-1673
Email: michael.platt@cchmc.org 
Michael Platt is a student at Xavier University (2012) studying biology in preparation for a medical health care career. From 2009-2011, Platt volunteered in the Hematology / Oncology Department at Cincinnati Children’s. He joined the Hamada lab in January 2011 as an aide.