Research Collaborators
![Takanori Asakura, MD, PhD](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2019/09/Takanori-Asakura-cropped-259x300.jpg)
Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan takanori.asakura@med.unc.edu
![](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2023/09/Kato-cropped-257x300.jpg)
Tokyo National Hospital, Tokyo, Japan taka_kato@med.unc.edu
![Rhianna Lee](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2019/09/Rhianna-Lee-cropped-257x300.jpg)
Research Collaborator, Marsico Lung Institute
Duke University, Durham, NC
rhiannal@email.unc.edu
![Matthew McPeek, PhD](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2019/09/Matthew-McPeek-cropped-256x300.jpg)
Research Collaborator, Marsico Lung Institute
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
mmcpeek@email.unc.edu
![Yu Mikami, MD, PhD](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2019/09/Yu-Mikami-cropped-258x300.jpg)
Research Collaborator, Marsico Lung Institute
University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
ymikami3@email.unc.edu
![Kaitlyn Rouillard](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2019/09/Kaitlyn-Rouillard-cropped-257x300.jpg)
Research Collaborator, Marsico Lung Institute
Kymanox, Morrisville, NC
krouilla@live.unc.edu
![Robert Tarran, PhD](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2023/09/Tarran-cropped-247x300.jpg)
Research Collaborator, Cell Biology and Physiology
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS robert_tarran@med.unc.edu
![Nikki Worthington](https://www.med.unc.edu/marsicolunginstitute/wp-content/uploads/sites/547/2019/11/Nikki-Worthington-cropped-256x300.jpg)
Research Collaborator, Pediatric Pulmonology
Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA
nikki@unc.edu