Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD

Naoka Murakami, MD PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a transplant nephrologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her MD-PhD degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and completed her Medicine residency at Toranomon Hospital in Japan, and Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York, followed by a Nephrology fellowship in the combined program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her primary research interest is allograft tolerance and T cell immunobiology. Her research project has been supported by the NIH and the American Society of Nephrology. Her clinical focus is on the care of kidney transplant recipients with cancer (Transplant Onconephrology), in collaboration with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.