Investigator, Asst Prof (M) Pediatric Surgery, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School

PhD University of Melbourne 2011

MD Jikei University School of Medicine 1999

cell culture; cell transplantation; enteric nervous system; gastrointestinal motility; hirschsprung disease; neural crest; neural stem cells; stem cell therapy; stem cells

Dr. Hotta is a surgeon-scientist whose research interest is to establish novel cell-based therapy for enteric neuropathies, including Hirschsprung disease. He received his MD from the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo in 1999. After completing his residency in general and pediatric surgery, Dr. Hotta moved to Melbourne, Australia to complete his PhD under the mentorship of Dr. Heather Young.

Since joining Dr. Goldstein’s lab at the Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories at the MGH in 2012, his passion for potential clinical application of cell-based strategy for the treatment of human gastrointestinal diseases has led to significant success. In 2017, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hotta has led numerous cutting-edge projects funded by the NIH and many foundations and societies. Using his extensive experience and knowledge in this field, he is dedicated to his research every day with the goal of applying cell therapy to the first human case in clinical practice.