Associate Professor |
Main Office Address
CMSC 8-117
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe St.
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-955-4726
Fax: 410-614-0013
E-mail: asawa1@jhmi.edu
Administrative Assistant
Yukiko Lema
E-mail: ylema1@jhmi.edu
Education
1990 | M.D. | Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) |
1994 | Ph.D. | Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) |
1992-1996 | Neuropsychiatry Residency | Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) |
1996-2001 | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | JHU (Neuroscience) |
Professional Interests
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: pathogenesis at molecular level
Click here for Program in Molecular Psychiatry
Click here for article in BrainWise - Winter 2006
Click here for press release about Mouse Model for Schizophrenia
Click here and here for Hopkins Brain Wise Newsletter articles about Dr. Sawa's work
Selected Publications
Kamiya A., Kubo K., Tomoda T., Takaki M., Youn R., Ozeki Y., Sawamura N., Park U., Kudo C., Okawa M., Ross C.A., Hatten M.E., Nakajima K., Sawa A. A schizophrenia-associated mutation of DISC1 perturbs cerebral cortex development. Nature Cell Biol., 7; 1067-78 (2005)
Sawa A., Snyder S.H.. Genetics. Two genes link two distinct psychoses. Science; 310; 1128-9 (2005)
Hara M.R., Agrawal N., Kim S.F., Cascio M.B., Fujimuro M., Takahashi M., Cheah J.H.,Tankou S.K., Hester L.D., Ferris C.D., Hayward S.D., Snyder S.H., Sawa A. S-Nitrosylated glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase initiates cell death by nuclear translocation following Siah1 binding.
Nature Cell Biol., 7; 665-674 (2005)
Bae B.I., Igarashi S., Fujimuro M., Agrawal N., Taya Y., Hayward S.D., Moran T., Ross C.A., Snyder S.H., Sawa A. p53 mediates cellular dysfunction and behavioral abnormalities in Huntington’s disease. Neuron 47; 29-41 (2005)
Sawa A., Snyder S.H. Schizophrenia: diverse approaches to a complex disease.
Science, 296; 692-695 (2002)
