Members | Leducq Fellows
Takaaki Samura, MD, PhD

Takaaki Samura, M.D., Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher in Hiro Nakauchi's lab at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He is a cardiovascular surgeon with expertise in developmental biology and stem cell biology, particularly in the cardiovascular field. As a Leducq Fellow, his primary focus is on defining strategies to generate a heart in mice using blastocyst complementation technology. 

Representative publications include:

Samura T, Miyagawa S, Kawamura T, Fukushima S, Yokoyama JY, Takeda M, Harada A, Ohashi F, Sato-Nishiuchi R, Toyofuku T, Toda K, Sekiguchi K, Sawa Y. Laminin-221 Enhances Therapeutic Effects of Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived 3-Dimensional Engineered Cardiac Tissue Transplantation in a Rat Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Model. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Aug 18;9(16):e015841.  PMID: 32783519. go to article

Samura T, Yoshioka D, Asanoi H, Toda K, Miyagawa S, Yoshikawa Y, Hata H, Kainuma S, Kawamura T, Kawamura A, Sakata Y, Sawa Y. Right Atrial Pressure Waveform Predicts Right Ventricular Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019 Nov;108(5):1361-1368. PMID: 31175868. go to article