ProfessorReiko Tanaka
Professor of Computational Systems Biology & Medicine
Department of Bioengineering - Faculty of Engineering
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- Professor of Computational Systems Biology & MedicineDepartment of Bioengineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 6374 (Work)
- RSM 3.10, Royal School of Mines, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Professor Tanaka aims to search for fundamental rules and mechanisms of biological control and to make a decisive contribution to systems medicine and biology.
Mathematical modelling from the viewpoint of systems and control engineering allows us to investigate and extract common design principles in diverse systems across the cellular, tissue, organ and behavioural levels. Since most diseases are caused by malfunctioning of various regulatory mechanisms, understanding common control design principles helps to identify key mechanisms to investigate and propose and answer clinically/biologically relevant questions that could not even be posed without it.
For the details of her recent research, please see the Tanaka Group website https://www.rtanakagroup.com.
Professor Tanaka has experience in multi-disciplinary research and education environments in research organisations in several countries. After she obtained her PhD from the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, University of Tokyo, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University. With her strong interest in the new area of systems biology, she obtained a fellowship from JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) to join Professor John Doyle's group at the California Institute of Technology as a Visiting Associate. Since then she has been working in the area of systems biology from the systems and control viewpoint. Before joining Imperial, she was a research scientist in the Biological Control Systems lab. in RIKEN.
Mathematical modelling from the viewpoint of systems and control engineering allows us to investigate and extract common design principles in diverse systems across the cellular, tissue, organ and behavioural levels. Since most diseases are caused by malfunctioning of various regulatory mechanisms, understanding common control design principles helps to identify key mechanisms to investigate and propose and answer clinically/biologically relevant questions that could not even be posed without it.
For the details of her recent research, please see the Tanaka Group website https://www.rtanakagroup.com.
Professor Tanaka has experience in multi-disciplinary research and education environments in research organisations in several countries. After she obtained her PhD from the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, University of Tokyo, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University. With her strong interest in the new area of systems biology, she obtained a fellowship from JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) to join Professor John Doyle's group at the California Institute of Technology as a Visiting Associate. Since then she has been working in the area of systems biology from the systems and control viewpoint. Before joining Imperial, she was a research scientist in the Biological Control Systems lab. in RIKEN.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Computational Systems Biology & Medic