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The Komatsu Laboratory at UCSF Department of Surgery has received a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) R56 research award as part of a multi-PI collaboration with Dr. Christoph Fahrni at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr. Sunita Ho at UCSF. The project, titled “Aberrant Mechano-Oxygen Coupling as a...

The Komatsu Laboratory at UCSF Department of Surgery has received a new Pilot & Feasibility research award from the UCSF Liver Center to develop an innovative oxygenation strategy for fabricating large-scale, transplantable liver organoids. The project, led by Dr. Hirotake Komatsu, builds on the laboratory's...

The Komatsu Laboratory at UCSF Department of Surgery recently published a paper in American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology demonstrating that human pluripotent stem cell-derived islets exhibit significantly greater resistance to hypoxia compared with primary human islets. Although stem cell-derived cells...

Student researcher Nia Ho receives first place award at AAAS Annual Meeting, one of the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific conferences Nia Ho, a student researcher in the Komatsu Laboratory at the UCSF Department of Surgery and an undergraduate student at Pitzer College, received 1st Place in the...