Assistant Professor

Takahiko Murayama, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the department of Cell Biology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. Taka received his B.S. (2013) from Chiba University, Japan, and his Ph.D. in Medicine (2019) from the University of Tokyo, where he studied charcteristics of cancer stem cells in breast tumors under Dr. Noriko Gotoh and Dr. Arinobu Tojo at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo. 

After a one-year appointment as a Program-Specific Assistant Professor at Kanazawa University in Dr. Noriko Gotoh's lab, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Israel Cañadas at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia for postdoctoral training. His postdoctoral work identified novel and promising targets to induce tumor-intrinsic innate immunity in small cell lung cancer.

In 2025, he joined the faculty at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University to establish a research program focused on identifying therapeutic targets to induce innate immunity in immunologically cold tumors and characterizing R-loop unwinding mechanisms.