Takayoshi Sakai
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Takayoshi Sakai (born August 11, 1964) is a dental researcher and clinician who is working in Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry (Osaka, Japan) as a professor and chairman.
[edit] Biography
Sakai was born in Osaka, Japan and is a distinguished alumnus of both Tokushima University School of Dentistry (1985-1991), Japan and Osaka's Tennoji High School (1980-1983). He received his D.D.S. in dentistry with honour and distinction from Tokushima University in 1983 and Ph.D. in Oral surgery at Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry in 1999.
In April 2000, he moved to the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, in the US and was working in the field of salivary gland development and regeneration. He is currently a professor at the Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry and a chief of Department of Oral-facial Disorders at the Osaka University Dental Hospital
[edit] References
- Fibronectin Requirement in Branching Morphogenesis. Nature 423, 876-881, 2003
- Microanalysis of Gene Expression in Tissues Using T7-SAGE: Serial Analysis of Gene Expression After High-fidelity T7-based RNA Amplification. Current Protocols in Cell Biology 19.3.1-19.3.30, 2002 (John Wiley & Sons, New York)

