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Tomokazu S Sumida, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor

Biography

Dr. Tomokazu Sumida received his MD from Chiba University School of Medicine in Japan in 2004 and completed two years of residency, followed by two years of fellowship in cardiology. He practiced as a cardiologist in Japan before obtaining his PhD in 2012 studying the interface between the immune system and cardiovascular disease. To learn basic and translational immunology, he joined the lab of Dr. David Hafler at Yale in 2015 as a postdoctoral fellow. His research focus is mainly on understanding molecular mechanisms that drive T cell dysfunction, especially regulatory T cells, in human diseases by using cutting-edge technologies (i.e. Single-cell multi-omics, ATAC-seq, CRISPR gene editing/regulation). He was appointed as an assistant professor of neurology in 2020.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Instructor
Yale School of Medicine (2020)
Associate Research Scientist
Yale School of Medicine (2019)
Post doctoral Associate
Yale School of Medicine (2017)
Postdoctoral fellowship
Yale School of Medicine (2016)
PhD
Chiba University, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (2012)
MD
Chiba University, School of Medicine (2004)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Autoimmune Diseases; Cardiovascular System; Immune System; Nervous System

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Tomokazu S Sumida's published research.

Publications

Featured Publications

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Harry Weaver Scholar Awards

  • activity

    Interferons in Acute Viral Disease - Friend or Foe

  • activity

    Integrated Multi-Omics Profiling of Foxp3+ Regulatory T cells Identify Dysfunctional Program in Multiple Sclerosis

  • honor

    Race to Erase MS Young Investigator Award

  • activity

    Dynamic gene regulatory network of IFN-beta response in human T cells