Yuki T. Okamura
Postdoctoral researcher in the Nakanishi Lab at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Research Interests
Aging biology, immune aging, cellular senescence, translational research, and age-related disease mechanisms.
Softwares
- thymus-quant: Python package to measure thymic tissue volume on CT images. It segments the thymic region on CT images and estimates thymic tissue volume.
Works
- Okamura YT et al. Single-cell-based evidence for GLS1 inhibitor as a bona fide senolytic agent in vivo. bioRxiv, 2025. Under revision. One of the first single-cell-level analyses of senolysis in vivo.
- Okamura YT et al. Automated Quantitative Evaluation of Age-Related Thymic Involution on Plain Chest CT. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2025. An automated method to quantify age-related thymic involution; derived software: thymus-quant.