
Masahide Takahashi
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Biography
Masahide Takahashi received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Nagoya University in 1979 and 1983, respectively. He carried out postdoctoral research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He joined Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute (Nagoya) as a research scientist in 1985 and moved to Nagoya University as an assistant professor in 1990. He was promoted to full professor of Department of Pathology at Nagoya University in 1996. He was a director of Center for Neurological Disease and Cancer at Nagoya University (2003-2012). His research interests include oncogene function, cancer invasion and metastasis, and development of the nervous system.
Abstract
Abstract : Roles of Akt-girdin signaling in cancer progression