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Dr. Ueki joined the Department of Oral Biology as an Assistant Professor in 2008. He is engaged in research in the areas of molecular and cellular pathogenesis of the human craniofacial disorder, Cherubism. Dr. Ueki’s current specific interest is molecular composition of signaling complexes mediated by SH3BP2 in myeloid cells that can explain how mutant SH3BP2 enhances TNF-alpha production and osteoclastogenesis.

Dr. Ueki graduated from Okayama University Medical School, Japan in 1994 and received his Ph.D. from same school in 1998. In 2000, Dr. Ueki joined Dr. Bjorn Olsen’s laboratory at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and conducted research as a post-doctoral research fellow and an instructor.


   
 

 

 
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