Dr. Nozomi Nishimura

Biography

Nozomi Nishimura grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and majored in Physics at Harvard College, where she worked with Professor Eric Mazur on femtosecond laser ablation. After graduate school, she became interested in neuroscience, working with Professor David Kleinfeld at the University of California, San Diego. In the Physics Department, her research focused on studying blood flow in the brain of rodents, developing laser-based models of small strokes. She joined Cornell University in 2006 as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Chris Schaffer and became an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 2013. Her current research expands the use of in vivo imaging techniques to study a variety of disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, cardiac disease, and cancer metastasis. She has received several notable awards, including the L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science, the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Professor Nishimura's work emphasizes understanding the contributions of vasculature, immune, and inflammatory systems in disease states, developing novel imaging tools to investigate cellular dynamics in living animals, and addressing complex interactions in disease progression.

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