Summary Dr. Ken Takahashi of Okayama University published a video article on a model of ischemic heart disease using human iPS heart cells. The method makes it easier to create a cardiac ischemia model. The use of this model will lead to the development of drugs for ischemic heart disease and reveal the cause of…
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The principal investigator, Ken Takahashi, traveled to Boston, USA from the end of July 2018 to begin research at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. His original plan was to complete the joint research at the end of July 2019 and return to Japan. Related: Joining Harvard Medical School However, Takahashi joined the “Blood-Brain Barrier…
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Ken Takahashi received the Outstanding Research Award at the 2019 International Conference for Leading and Young Medical Scientists (IC-LYMS 2019) in Taipei, Taiwan, which was organized by the Asia Pacific Society for Biology and Medical Sciences. The purpose of the conference was to provide a platform for the exchange and networking between top scientists, emerging…
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Dr. Chen Wang, Ph.D. student in Takahashi lab, won the 1st prize in the poster presentation at the 2019 International Conference for Leading and Young Medical Scientists (IC-LYMS 2019) held by the Asia Pacific Society for Biology and Medical Sciences in Taipei. She presented a poster presentation entitled “Roles of the TRPM4 channel in mitochondrial…
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Toward the development of individual model of ischemic heart disease Heart attack caused by ischemia is a major medical problem that threatens our healthy life. Researchers at Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences developed a model of myocardial infarction using cardiomyocytes differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells. The journal Biochemical and…
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Heart cells sense that they are stretched when the heart is subjected to high blood pressure. But how? It is known that concentration of calcium ion in cardiomyocytes increases when they are stretched. Takahashi and co-workers found that a specific protein, L-type calcium channel, is the key to this calcium increase event using rat cardiomyocytes.…
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Ken Takahashi gave an oral presentation titled “Simultaneous mapping of multiple proteins in heart using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging mass spectrometry” at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2017 on August 26, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. He enjoyed the “rapid fire abstract” session, in which a presenter was given only 5 minutes, the beautiful city…
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