Kurenai Tanji, MD, PhD

Dr. Tanji obtained the medical degree and training in pathology at Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, and joined Department of Neurology, Columbia University as a post-doctoral research fellow in 1991, studying muscle biology in the fields of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and mitochondrial encephalomyopathy.

In 2000, she moved to Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, to repeat the pathology residency in the United States, followed by the neuropathology fellowship, and joined the pathology faculty in 2004. She has been actively involved in the clinical service of neuropathology, especially in the neuromuscular pathology, collaborative research...