Kaori Oshima, PhD

Dr. Kaori Oshima is an Instructor in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She earned her Ph.D. from University of South Alabama and was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Colorado. She is internationally recognized for her expertise in endothelial glycocalyx, a sugar-rich layer that coats all blood vessels, and how this fragile, yet critical layer is degraded and/or remodeled during critical illnesses. She established the importance of endothelial glycocalyx degradation as a prognostic biomarker in sepsis, enabling a strong prediction of patient survival. As Director of Translational Glycoanalysis at Mass General Hospital, she currently conducts endothelial glycocalyx research to advance translational science and collaborates with investigators nationally and internationally to move the frontier of glycocalyx-related biomarkers in multiple diseases.

Talk title: Predicting patient survival with blood vessel sugar-layer