Ryou-u Takahashi
National Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan
Biography
Ryou-u Takahashi is a staff scientist of Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo. After he got a Ph.D. in 2008 in Tokyo Institute of technology and then went to do a post-doc at the National Cancer Center Research Institute. Dr. Takahashi focuses the development of novel animal models, methods, and strategies to study the molecular mechanisms for the acquisition of CSC properties. Especially, the current focus is siRNA- and miRNA-based therapy against CSCs.
Abstract
Abstract : Loss of microRNA-27b-mediated gene repression promotes the generation of breast cancer stem cells
