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Nozomi Nishimura is an Associate Professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. Her research focuses on understanding how physiological systems like vasculature, immune cells, and tissue cells interact in diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disorders, and cancer. She leads the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab, which develops advanced imaging tools like multiphoton microscopy and femtosecond laser ablation to study in vivo dynamics. Dr. Nishimura holds a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Physics from UC San Diego, and completed a postdoc at Cornell in Biomedical Engineering.
Her research interests include biomedical imaging, neurovascular interactions, and disease modeling. Notable awards include the AIMBE Fellowship (2024), NSF Career Award (2015), and L’Oreal USA Fellowship (Postdoc). She advises first-year engineering students and has been recognized for mentoring and promoting women in science.
Her lab explores technologies to study cellular dynamics in live animals, with applications in Alzheimer’s pathology, cardiac blood flow, and cancer metastasis. They investigate how microvascular changes influence disease progression, using quantitative imaging and laser-based interventions.
