ProfessorMasao Takata
Magill Chair in Anaesthetics
Department of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
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- Magill Chair in AnaestheticsDepartment of Surgery & Cancer - Faculty of Medicine
- 020 7594 1660 (Work)
- G3.46, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Professor Takata holds the Sir Ivan Magill Chair in Anaesthetics at Imperial College London. He is Professor of Molecular Physiology in Critical Care, and also an Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. He was the former Head of the Division of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine & Intensive Care (APMIC) within the Department of Surgery & Cancer from 2009 to 2024.
Professor Takata was originally trained as a paediatric anaesthetist/intensivist in Japan and Canada. He obtained a broad range of research training spanning from respiratory physiology at Johns Hopkins (USA), vascular molecular biology at Harvard (USA), to immunology/cytokine biology at Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (UK). He joined Imperial in 1998 and has been based at the Chelsea & Westminster campus since 2001.
Over the years Prof Takata has established an internationally unique translational research programme in respiratory and critical care medicine within the Division of APMIC, supported by Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council and other charity/industry grants. His research group provides a vital interface between basic science and clinical medicine, investigating the molecular and inflammatory mechanisms of acute lung injury, ventilator-induced lung injury and sepsis-associated organ injury, by use of combined in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro methodologies as well as clinical translational studies in perioperative and critical care patients.
Specific research interests include: 1) novel inflammatory mechanisms/therapies in acute lung injury and ventilator-induced lung injury; 2) the roles of extracellular vesicles in acute respiratory distress syndrome and systemic organ injuries in critical care; 3) and more recently, novel diagnostic/therapeutic targets in emerging respiratory infections such as COVID-19 or influenza. His research group has developed a wide range of collaborations across the College, its affiliated NHS hospitals and other institutions in the UK, Europe and Japan.
Professor Takata was originally trained as a paediatric anaesthetist/intensivist in Japan and Canada. He obtained a broad range of research training spanning from respiratory physiology at Johns Hopkins (USA), vascular molecular biology at Harvard (USA), to immunology/cytokine biology at Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (UK). He joined Imperial in 1998 and has been based at the Chelsea & Westminster campus since 2001.
Over the years Prof Takata has established an internationally unique translational research programme in respiratory and critical care medicine within the Division of APMIC, supported by Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council and other charity/industry grants. His research group provides a vital interface between basic science and clinical medicine, investigating the molecular and inflammatory mechanisms of acute lung injury, ventilator-induced lung injury and sepsis-associated organ injury, by use of combined in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro methodologies as well as clinical translational studies in perioperative and critical care patients.
Specific research interests include: 1) novel inflammatory mechanisms/therapies in acute lung injury and ventilator-induced lung injury; 2) the roles of extracellular vesicles in acute respiratory distress syndrome and systemic organ injuries in critical care; 3) and more recently, novel diagnostic/therapeutic targets in emerging respiratory infections such as COVID-19 or influenza. His research group has developed a wide range of collaborations across the College, its affiliated NHS hospitals and other institutions in the UK, Europe and Japan.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Magill Chair in Anaesthetics