Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, PhD
- Investigator, Children's Research Institute
- Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
Locations
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8701 Watertown Plank Rd.Milwaukee, WI 53226
Overview
Division
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research interests
- Cell and developmental biology
- Fetal concerns/prematurity diseases
- Genetic diseases/genomics
- Heart disease
- Congenital heart disease
- Solid organ transplantation
Study interests
- Development and utilization of high-throughput methodologies for identifying inherited risk factors
- Genetic and molecular etiology of congenital heart disease
- Mutation detection technologies
Education
- Doctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2000; postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2000
- Postdoctoral fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2004
Areas of Interest
- Research faculty
Education and Awards
Education
Awards
- Wisconsin Inno's "50 on Fire," 2018
- USA Olympic Intercollegiate Engineering Design competition, first place, Denver, 1993
- Ida Green Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1994
- Poitras Biomedical Engineering/Biophysics Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1998
- Aspen Cancer Conference Fellow, Colo., 1999
- The Business Journal's "Forty under 40," 2009
Research and publications
Research
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Primary Immunodeficiencies, National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI), co-investigator (5%), 1/11/11 - 12/31/12
- Inflammation and Infection in Acquired and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease, role, key/senior personnel and mentor, 2/1/09 - 1/31/14
- Formative Project within the Pilot Phase of the NCS, The National Children's Study - Vanguard Center; role, lead site investigator, Waukesha County Vanguard Site, MCW subaward, 4/1/11 - 3/31/12