Shuichi Takayama, PhD, MS

Biography

Shuichi Takayama, PhD, MS, is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. He is a GRA Eminent Scholar and holds the Price Gilbert Jr. Chair in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine at Georgia Tech. He is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Takayama began his career at the University of Michigan, where led his lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering for over 17 years. In 2017, the lab moved to Georgia Tech.

Education

Dr. Shu Takayama earned his BS and MS in Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. He earned a PhD in Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California studying bio-organic synthesis with Dr. Chi‐Huey Wong. He then worked as a postdoc with Dr. George Whitesides at Harvard University where he focused on applying microfluidics to studying cell and molecular biology.

Titles & Roles

• Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

  Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
• GRA Eminent Scholar and Price Gilbert Jr. Chair in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine

  Georgia Institute of Technology

Research

Dr. Takayama's laboratory constructs multicellular models to dissect cell signaling pathways, understand disease physiology, test therapeutics, and perform cell-based assays. Research interests include use of micro/nanofluidics for cell analysis, diagnostics and chromatin analysis. Specific research topics include high throughput 3D cell cultures, organs-on-a-chip construction and design, the role of rhythm in cell signaling, self-switching fluidic circuit design, fracture fabrication and microscale liquid-liquid phase separation.