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Junichi Tokuda, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

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Junichi Tokuda is a research scientist at the Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA. He is specialized in the development and clinical translation of novel software and robotics technologies for image-guided interventions. At BWH, he works with his clinical collaborators primarily on MRI-guided interventions of pelvic and abdominal organs. As a Principal Investigator, he is leading several research projects which are funded by the National Institutes of Health and industry. Before he joined the BWH/HMS community in 2007, he received undergraduate and graduate training at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and obtained a B.S. in Engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. in Information and Science and Technology. He is currently an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

Pedro Moreira, Ph.D., Instructor in Radiology

Pedro Moreira is a research scientist at the Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and an Instructor in Radiology at the Harvard Medical School. His research's primary focus has been the development of robotic systems for medical applications, particularly in robot-assisted percutaneous procedures and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-guided procedures.
 

Mariana Bernardes, Ph.D., Research Fellow

Mariana C. Bernardes is a Researcher Fellow in Radiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School. She is specialized in medical robotics and her research is focused on robot-assisted minimally invasive procedures, particularly in laparoscopy and image-guided percutaneous interventions. Before joining the BWH, she received a B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Brasilia, and a Ph.D in Automation and Microelectronic Systems from University of Montpellier. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Brasilia from 2015 to 2021, where she co-founded the Laboratory for Testing of Electromedical Devices and Systems (LENSE).

 

Collaborators

  • Nobuhiko Hata, Ph.D. (Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
  • Clare Tempany. M.D. (Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
  • Kemal Tuncali, M.D. (Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
  • Robert Cormack, Ph.D. (Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
  • Iulian Iordachita, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Axel Krieger, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Simon Leonard, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Mark Fuge, Ph.D. (University of Maryland)
  • Ehud Schmidt, Ph.D. (Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University)
  • Yue Chen, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Tamas Ungi, M.D., Ph.D. (Queen's University, Canada)
  • Jesung Park, Ph.D. (Physical Sciences, Inc., Andover, MA)
  • Gregory Ekchian, Ph.D. (Stratagen Bio, Inc., Boston, MA)

Former Members / Interns (2014-)

  • Franklin King, M.S. (Software Engineer)
  • Longquan Chen, M.S. (Software Engineer)
  • Laurent Chauvin, M.S. (Software Engineer)
  • Rachel Hoki (Student, Liverty High School, Renton, WA)
  • Timothy Tarnopolsky (Student, McNair Academic High School, Jersey City, NJ)
  • Nicholas Fordham (Student Intern, Medical Student at Boston University, Schoool of Medicine)
  • Isha Gangavaram (Academy for Health and Medical Sciences)
  • Daniel Flyer (Roslyn High School, NY)
  • Abiram Gangavaram (Academy of Health and Medical Science at Somerset Vocational Technical High School, Watchung, NJ)
  • Anneke Meyer, M.Sc. (Ph.D. Candidate at University of Magdeburg, Germany)
  • Qun Wang, M.D. (Research Fellow)
  • Ahmed Mahran (Medical Student at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
  • Soichiro Tani, M.D. (Surgeon/Ph.D. Candidate at Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan)
  • Koichiro Murakami, M.D., Ph.D. (Surgeon at Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan)
  • Honglei Zhang (Graduate Student at Tianjin University, China)
  • Anke Reinschlüssel (Ph.D. Candidate at University of Bremen, Germany)
  • Steve Li (Concord Carlisle High School, MA)
  • Yuqian Zhang (Graduate Student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
  • Jessica Peng (Lynbrook High School, CA)
  • Marek Wartenberg, M.S. (Ph.D. Candidate at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA)
  • Sarah Elbenna (Student at Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France)
  • Christina Choi (Kinkaid School, TX)
  • Lisanne Kok (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  • Yuting Zhao (Student at Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France)
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