nkdyuji@uab.edu

EDUCATION

YEAR
2000

DEGREE
Ph.D.

FIELD OF STUDY
Biomedical Science

INSTITUTION
Osaka University, Japan

POSITION

YEAR
2015–2020
2020-present

POSITION
Instructor / Research Associate, University of Texas Southwestern
Assistant Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, the University of Alabama at Birmingham

RESEARCH

– Neonatal Cardiac Regenerative Potential and Regulators in Large Animals.
– Role of metabolisms in Heart Regeneration.
– Endogenous and Exogenous Mechanisms that Promote Myocardial Remuscularization in Post Infarction LV Remodeling

BIO

To be updated

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Nakada Y, Zhou Y, Gong W, Zhang EY, Skie E, Nguyen T, Wei Y, Zhao M, Chen W, Sun J, Raza SN. Single Nucleus Transcriptomics: Apical Resection in Newborn Pigs Extends the Time Window of Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Myocardial Regeneration. Circulation. 2022 Jun 7;145(23):1744-7.
2. Nakada Y, Nhi Nguyen NU, Xiao F, Savla JJ, Lam NT, Abdisalaam S, Bhattacharya S, Mukherjee S, Asaithamby A, Gillette TG, Hill JA. DNA damage response mediates pressure overload–induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. Circulation. 2019 Feb 26;139(9):1237-9.
3. Nakada Y, Canseco DC, Thet S, Abdisalaam S, Asaithamby A, Santos CX, Shah AM, Zhang H, Faber JE, Kinter MT, Szweda LI. Hypoxia induces heart regeneration in adult mice. Nature. 2017 Jan;541(7636):222-7.
4. Zhao M, Nakada Y, Wei Y, Bian W, Chu Y, Borovjagin AV, Xie M, Zhu W, Nguyen T, Zhou Y, Serpooshan V. Cyclin D2 Overexpression Enhances the Efficacy of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Cardiomyocytes for Myocardial Repair in a Swine Model of Myocardial Infarction. Circulation. 2021 Jul 20;144(3):210-28.
5. Bishop SP, Zhou Y, Nakada Y, Zhang J. Changes in cardiomyocyte cell cycle and hypertrophic growth during fetal to adult in mammals. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021 Jan 19;10(2):e017839.