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09/29/2018 |
 The panelists and the organizers get together after the workshop! |
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09/29/2018 |
 We are invited as panelist in Career workshop at the Japanese Cancer Association!! |
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09/28/2018 |
 Attending at the meeting in Japan, it is miraculous to be able to reunion with Heather, Associate Professor at UCLA and the Lew Cantley's alumni!!! |
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09/27/2018 |
 Dr. Takaomi Sanda, my old friend back to Boston, both started the lab almost the same timing. One of the great things attending conference is to mingle!! |
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09/26/2018 |
 UJA workshop to support one's studying abroad! |
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09/19/2018 |
 We are invited to the Jichi-Medical University thanks for the great courtesy by Dr. Masafumi Takahashi! Photo with my admired Takuji-sensei (and his beautiful wife) and Takahani-sensei! |
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09/13/2018 |
 A few days after new moon. So beautiful. Moon is speaking to us. And, Atsuo declares his Mika-zuki. |
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09/10/2018 |
 Yoshiki's celebration and departing day! Yoshiki is one of the SO rare talented persons who developed his ability and pushing to far extend the ability in the past three years. Yoshiki gets tenure faculty position in the Kansai-Medical University!! Congratulations, Yoshiki!!! |
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07/17/2018 |
 After the updating, now is the time to spark!!! Our GTP-brain storm is always EXTREME, went on over 8 h with continuous spark and joy!!! |
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07/17/2018 |
 We are ready for the second GTP-day!!! |
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The Sasaki Lab places an emphasis on learning and career development. We have our own system through which team members provide feedback on each other’s project and presentation.
Five out of the six postdoctoral members have received fellowships — with three of them leading research projects as a PI and co-investigators after winning grants — and published their work in high-impact journals. All postdoctoral fellows who recently finished their degrees, obtained academic positions, including two assistant professorships in the U.S. and one assistant professorship in Japan.
Five out of the six postdoctoral members have received fellowships — with three of them leading research projects as a PI and co-investigators after winning grants — and published their work in high-impact journals. All postdoctoral fellows who recently finished their degrees, obtained academic positions, including two assistant professorships in the U.S. and one assistant professorship in Japan.
If you are interested in joining the process of building a top-notch laboratory—rather than joining an already established lab—we encourage you to take our lab seriously as candidate for your training place. We are looking forward to welcoming a new GTP-geek member. Our door is opened for highly motivated undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doctral fellows. Instruction of the application for a postdoctoral fellow position is here.
Atsuo T. Sasaki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Project Professor
Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Visiting Professor: Hiroshima University
Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Project Professor
Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Visiting Professor: Hiroshima University
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Tel: | 513-558-2160 | |
Fax: | 513-558-6703 |
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Email: | atsuo.sasaki [at] uc.edu | |||
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Address: | Vontz Center 1328 (office) / 1234 (lab) 3125 Eden Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45267-0508 |
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Welcome to the Sasaki Lab’s WebsiteThe Sasaki Lab represents a team of scientists dedicated to helping save lives through research on links between GTP metabolism and cancer. We recently discovered the existence of a GTP energy sensing kinase, which has the effect of propelling tumor growth, as published in Molecular Cell. We continue to investigate the mechanism of GTP metabolism to find how it can be used to help improve the quality of life for cancer patients.
Sasaki Lab’s "GTP" Way:
Geek: we investigate GTP, GTP and GTP!
Together: we work together!
Passion: abosolute requirement for success!
Curiosity and Collaboration Are Key Drivers of Innovation Atsuo Sasaki: When I was in second-grade, I wondered if the varying root lengths of plants near the beach had anything to do with soil conditions. I walked around the neighborhood with a shovel in my hand until I had enough samples to compare. The effort earned me my first junior science award from the city of Kure, Hiroshima.
The following year, I decided to find the fastest way to ignite a piece of paper using a magnifying glass. I learned silver paper would never burn. In third grade, I experimented with materials for a tin-can telephone so I could talk with my friend from 100 yards away. Both of these projects landed me Hiroshima’s special science awards and taught me being inquisitive and tenacious pays off.
It’s the same curiosity that drives me today as I and my research team explore the field of GTP metabolism, a new frontier in cancer research that we developed. At Sasaki Lab, we place the highest priority on discussions. Innovation happens when people share their “crazy” ideas, realize the significance of those ideas and begin working together to make them a reality.
I have a one-hour lab session every week in which all team members challenge each other to reach for the creativity that they have inside of them.
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