Dr Nodoka Iwasaki

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Tendon Vascular Biology (Thorpe)

Department: Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Research Groups: Musculoskeletal Biology, Cardiovascular and Renal Biology

Nodoka is a postdoctoral researcher in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences department. Her resaerch interests are tendon regeneration, rapir, and senescence.

Nodoka obtained a 1st class BSc (Hons) in Life Sciences from the Hokkaido University in 2018, and obtained distinction in MSc Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering from University College London in 2020. She completed her PhD in muscle tendon junction regeneration at the University of Portsmouth in 2024. She moved to the RVC to start her postdoc position with Dr Chavaunne Thorpe to investigate tendon vascular senscence and its role in tendon senescence.

Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M., & Blunn, G. (2025). Measuring Full-field Strain of the Muscle Tendon Junction using Confocal Microscopy Combined with Digital Volume Correlation. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 106925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2025.106925 

Iwasaki, N., Roldo, M., Karali, A., & Blunn, G. (2024). In vitro development of a muscle-tendon junction construct using decellularised extracellular matrix: Effect of cyclic tensile loading. Biomaterials Advances, 161, 213873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioadv.2024.213873 

Iwasaki, N., Karali, A., Roldo, M., & Blunn, G. (2024). Full-Field Strain Measurements of the Muscle-Tendon Junction Using X-ray Computed Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation. Bioengineering, 11(2), 162. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11020162 

Iwasaki, N., Roldo, M., Karali, K., Sensini, A., & Blunn, G. (2024). Development of Muscle Tendon Junction in vitro Using Aligned Electrospun PCL Fibres. Engineered Regeneration, 5(3), 409–420.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engreg.2024.01.004 

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