Dr. Shuichi Takayama is an associate professor having a joint appointment in Department of Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds a M.S (1994) and a B.S. (1992) from University of Tokyo. He earned his Ph.D. in 1998 in chemistry and chemical biology from the Scripps Research Institute, where he studied enzymes in organic synthesis and glycobiology. His postdoctoral work was at Harvard University as a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow working at the interface of surface science, microfluidics, and cell biology. He has won several awards including 2009 College of Engineering George J Huebner Jr Research Excellence Award, 2006 Biomedical Engineering Department Award for Outstanding Accomplishment, 2004 Collegiate Inventors Mentor Award, 2003 NSF CAREER Award, and 2002 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. His research has been sponsored by NIH, NSF, ARMY, USDA, MEDC, Coulter Foundation, Whitaker Foundation, Wilson Foundation, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Research Interests:

High throughput cell microenvironment engineering and gene expression/knockdown (RNAi) (Nature Materials 2009, in press), Endothelium and cancer metastasis on a chip (PLoSOne 2009, 4, e5756; Anal Chem 2005, 77, 3993-3999; Nature 2001, 411, 1016), Embryonic stem cells, cancer, and 3D cultures (Biomaterials 2009, 30, 3020-3027; Lab Chip 2009, 9, 1749-1755; Lab Chip  2007, 7, 770-776), Muscle tissue engineering (Biomaterials 2009, 30, 1150-1155), Lung on a chip (PNAS 2007, 104, 18886–18891), Nanopatterning nanofluidics and single molecule DNA analysis (Nature Materials 2007, 6, 424-428; Nature Materials 2005, 4, 403-406), Computerized microfluidics and flow cytometry (Lab Chip 2007, 7, 1497-1503; PNAS 2004, 101, 15861-15866; JACS 2003, 125, 14678-14679), Microfluidic in vitro fertilization (Anal Chem 2007, 79, 1126-1134; Anal Chem 2003, 75, 1671-1675), Spatio-temporal cell signaling (Microfluid Nanofluid 2009, 6, 717-730; Dev Cell 2002, 3, 245-257).