Dr. Kohji Mori

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsClinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,Biological Psychiatry,Biochemistry
Keywordsdipeptide repeat protein, Frontotemporal Lober Degeneration, C9orf72, TDP-43, psychotic disorders

Current contact address

CountryJapan
CitySuita, Osaka
InstitutionOsaka University
InstituteGraduate School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian HaassLehrstuhl für Stoffwechselbiochemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2011

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2013Masayasu Okochi, Shinji Tagami, Kanta Yanagida, Mako Takami, Takashi S. Kodama, Kohji Mori, Taisuke Nakayama, Yasuo Ihara, Masatoshi Takeda: γ-Secretase Modulators and Presenilin 1 Mutants Act Differently on Presenilin/γ-Secretase Function to Cleave Aβ42 and Aβ43. In: Cell Reports, 2013, 1-10
2013Kohji Mori, Shih-Ming Weng, Thomas Arzberger, Stephanie May, Kristin Rentzsch, Elisabeth Kremmer, Bettina Schmid, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Marc Cruts, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Christian Haass, Dieter Edbauer: The C9orf72 GGGGCC Repeat Is Translated into Aggregating Dipeptide-Repeat Proteins in FTLD/ALS. In: SCIENCE, 2013, 1335-1338
2013Kohji Mori, Sven Lammich, Ian R Mackenzie, Ignasi Forné, Sonja Zilow, Hans Kretzschmar, Dieter Edbauer, Jonathan Janssens, Gernot Kleinberger, Marc Cruts, Jochen Herms, Manuela Neumann, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Thomas Arzberger, Christian Haass: hnRNP A3 binds to GGGGCC repeats and is a constituent of p62-positive/TDP43-negative inclusions in the hippocampus of patients with C9orf72 mutations.. In: Acta neuropathologica, 2013, 413-423