Takashi Takeuchi

Takashi Takeuchi is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University. His group is interested in the mechanisms regulating the cell cycle in cardiomyocytes, and the differences between mammals and non-mammalian animals that can regenerate their hearts.

Takeuchi obtained his Ph.D. from Nagoya University in 1991, and worked as a Principal Investigator in Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences where he found the jumonji (jmj) gene and the Jmj family, and also identified molecular functions of jmj in cardiac development. He moved to Tottori University in 2009, and since then, his group has established molecular genetic systems using newts. They are currently carrying out comparative studies between mice and newts to uncover the molecular mechanisms determining the differences in their regenerative abilities.

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