Takao Sakai, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Staff Department of Biomedical Engineering / ND20 Lerner Research Institute 9500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44195 Telephone: (216) 445-3223 Fax: (216) 444-9198 sakait@ccf.org

Areas of general research interest:

• Cell-extracellular matrix interactions during development, tissue repair, and carcinogenesis
• Tendon biology and tissue engineering

Current program:

• Extracellular matrix remodeling in response to adult injury
• Role of transcription factor Scleraxis in tendon tissues

Personnel:

• Eunny Bae, Ph.D. (Research Fellow)
• Hiromitsu Hayashi, M.D., Ph.D. (Research Fellow)
• Kei Moriya, M.D., Ph.D. (Research Fellow)
• Keiko Sakai (Senior Research Technician)

Collaborators:

• Thomas Egelhoff, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland , OH
• Harihara Baskaran, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• William Landis, Ph.D., Goodyear polymer Center, University of Akron, Akron, OH
• Ronen Schweitzer, Ph.D., Shriners Hospital for Children, Research Division, Portland , OR.