Rate My Professor Takayuki Manabe

Takayuki Manabe serves as Dean and Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, Department of Nursing at Chukyo Gakuin University, and Director of the Media Center. He earned a Doctor of Medicine from Osaka University and holds a position as Visiting Professor at its Graduate School. His career encompasses key appointments including Professor at Chukyo Gakuin University since 2015, Associate Professor from 2012 to 2014 and Lecturer from 2009 to 2010 at Fujita Health University's Comprehensive Medical Science Research Institute, Researcher at RIKEN's Neural Differentiation and Regeneration Team in 2007, Lecturer at Fujita Health University Faculty of Medicine in 2007, and Assistant at Nara Medical University Faculty of Medicine from 2004 to 2006.

Manabe's research focuses on neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, and RNA regulation, particularly splicing abnormalities in mental disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with notable works including "Trans-mesenteric neural crest cells are the principal source for the colonic enteric nervous system" (Nature Neuroscience, 2012), "Involvement of caspase-4 in endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis and Abeta-induced cell death" (Journal of Cell Biology, 2004), "Induced HMGA1a expression causes aberrant splicing of Presenilin-2 pre-mRNA in sporadic Alzheimer's disease" (Cell Death and Differentiation, 2003), "L3/Lhx8 is a pivotal factor for cholinergic differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells" (Cell Death and Differentiation, 2007), and "Regulation and/or repression of cholinergic differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells using RNAi directed against transcription factor L3/Lhx8" (Methods in Molecular Biology, 2010). As principal investigator, he has received multiple KAKENHI grants for projects on schizophrenia mechanisms, RNA therapeutics, neural differentiation, and myelination abnormalities. Manabe is Vice Director of the Preventive Pharmacology Research Institute, Board Member of the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry, Academic Councilor of the Japanese Pharmacological Society, and Member of the Japanese Association of Anatomists. He teaches courses on morphology and function, clinical pharmacology, nursing seminars, and integrated seminars.