![]() | Professor Main Office Address Meyer 3-166A Phone: 410-955-4726 E-mail: asawa1@jhmi.edu Administrative Assistant Yukiko Lema |
Education
1990 | M.D. | Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) |
1990-96 | Residency, Clinical Fellow, Ph.D. in Psychiatry | Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) |
1996-2001 | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | Johns Hopkins University (Neuroscience) |
Professional Interests
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: pathogenesis at molecular level
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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)







