Email

arimura@bcm.edu

Positions

Instructor

Medicine-Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

BS from Showa Pharmaceutical University

03/2002 - Tokyo, Japan

MS from Showa Pharmaceutical University

03/2004 - Tokyo, Japan

PhD from Kyoto University

07/2009 - Kyoto, Japan

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Kyoto University

08/2009 - Kyoto, Japan

Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Tokyo, Assistant Professor at The University of Tokyo

01/2018 - Tokyo, Japan

Research Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

12/2019 - Houston, United States

Certifications

Pharmacist (Japan)

Professional Interests

• Creation of Artificial Functional Cells and Their Applications

Selected Publications

• Adkins-Threats M*, Arimura S* and Mills JC, et. al. (*Co-1st. authors) "Metabolic regulator ERRγ governs stem cell differentiation into acid-secreting parietal cells." Cell Stem Cell (In press). 2024;
• S Arimura, To S, Mills JC "Changing fate: how EGFRs "pit" cell vs cell in the stomach." Gastroenterology (In press). 2024;
• Arimura S and Yamanashi Y, et. al. "Loss of Dok-3 in non-tumor cells induces malignant conversion of benign epithelial tumors of the intestine." Cancer Research Communications. 2022;2:1590-600.
• Arimura S and Yamanashi Y, et. al. "DOK7 gene therapy benefits mouse models of diseases characterized by defects in the neuromuscular junction." Science. 2014;345:1505-8.

Funding

2023-2027: NIDDK R01 grant : Co-I (PI: Jason C. Mills) - #R01 DK094989-12

NIH/NIDDK

2021-2022: The Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center (TMC-DDC) Pilot/Feasibility Award: PI - #P30DK056338

NIH/NIDDK

2018-2019: Research in A Foreign Country (A special 2-year adopter): PI - #201640201

The Uehara Memorial Foundation (Japan)

2018-2018: Medical and Pharmaceutical Research in A Foreign Country: PI - #2017R1-1

Mochida Memorial Foundation (Japan)

Languages

Japanese