Fuminori Tanizawa

Fuminori Tanizawa

PhD Student

Stanford Immunology

Biography

Hi! I’m Fumi, a PhD student in Immunology at Stanford Medicine. I'm very passionate about host-pathogen interactions in infectious diseases, using both dry and wet approaches. My goal is to advance science that serves those most affected by disease—often communities neglected by mainstream research and healthcare systems.

I bring a strong foundation in both molecular benchwork and computational biology, with research experience at Scripps Research, Johns Hopkins, the National University of Singapore, and Harvey Mudd College. I earned my B.S. in Computational Biology from Harvey Mudd College in 2025, with a humanities concentration in Environmental Analysis.

Always open to new collaborations or opportunities—feel free to reach out!

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Fellowships: SoftBank Masason Scholar (Gen 2), UNIQLO Tadashi Yanai Scholar (Gen 5), Ezoe Memorial Scholar (Gen 54).


日本語 / Japanese: こんにちは、谷澤文礼です!スタンフォード大学医学部免疫学博士課程で感染症における宿主と病原体の相互作用を研究しています。ハービーマッド大学計算生物学専攻2025年卒。孫正義育英(2期)、柳井正(5期)、江副記念リクルート財団(54期)奨学生。

Updates

2025-04-15 – Committed to Stanford Immunology PhD Program

I’ll be starting my PhD in Immunology at Stanford Medicine in Fall 2025.

2024-11-21 – Awarded Full-Ride PhD Scholarship

Received the full-ride Ezoe Memorial Foundation Academic Scholarship to support my doctoral studies.

Interests

  • Host-pathogen Interaction
  • Immune Evasion
  • Infectious Diseases

Education

  • PhD in Immunology, On-going

    Stanford Medicine Immunology

  • BSc in Computational Biology, 2025

    Harvey Mudd College

Publications

(2021). Sleep contributes to preference for novel food odours in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports - Nature.

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Research Experience

For more details, please refer to my CV.

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Thesis Researcher

Harvey Mudd College

Aug 2024 – Present Claremont, California
Mitochondrial proteostasis abd Innate immunity of Drosophila melanogaster at Hur Lab.
 
 
 
 
 

Summer Research Internship

Johns Hopkins University

May 2024 – Aug 2024 Baltimore, Maryland
Molecular Immunology of Trypanosome brucei at Mugnier Lab
 
 
 
 
 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Harvey Mudd College

Sep 2023 – May 2024 Claremont, California
Molecular Immunology of Trypanosome brucei at Schulz Lab
 
 
 
 
 

Summer Research Internship

Scripps Research

May 2023 – Aug 2023 San Diego, California
Molecular genomics of Caenorhabditis elegans at Srinivasan Lab
 
 
 
 
 

CS Research Mentorship Program

Google Research

Jan 2023 – Apr 2023 Online
Bioinformatics under Albert Cohen, Ph.D.
 
 
 
 
 

Summer Research Internship

National University of Singapore

May 2022 – Aug 2022 Singapore, Singapore
Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Bicyclus anynana at Monteiro Lab
 
 
 
 
 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Harvey Mudd College

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022 Claremont, California
Biophysics of Cone Snail at PoSM Lab
 
 
 
 
 

High-school Visiting Researcher

Shizuoka University

Jul 2018 – Mar 2021 Shizuoka, Japan

Projects

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Behavioral Effects of Odorant Injection on Larvae and Eggs of Bicyclus anynana

Summer Project at the National University of Singapore (May 2022 - August 2022).
Behavioral Effects of Odorant Injection on Larvae and Eggs of Bicyclus anynana

Genomic Regulators of Lipid Metabolism and Longevity in C. elegans

Summer Project at Scripps Research (May 2023 - August 2023).
Genomic Regulators of Lipid Metabolism and Longevity in C. elegans

Sleep contributes to preference for novel food odours in Drosophila melanogaster

Published Two-Year Project at Shizuoka University, Japan (August 2018 - April 2021).
Sleep contributes to preference for novel food odours in Drosophila melanogaster

Accomplishments

Fellowships

Awards

Conference Presentations

  • 2024-07-25        2024 C.A.R.E.S. Symposium (Baltimore MA, Poster)
  • 2022-08-04        Amgen Scholars Asia Symposium (Singapore, Poster)
  • 2020-07-28        Animal Behavior Society (USA, Oral)
  • 2020-09-16        Biophysical Society of Japan(Japan, Poster)

Contact

My social media is here.