Professor Yasuchika Takeishi

Yasuchika Takeishi is Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Fukushima Medical University and is responsible for advancing patient care, research, and education at Fukushima Medical University. The global burden of heart failure has motivated Takeishi to focus on how aberrant signal transduction pathways can alter cardiac size and function. The changing landscape of healthcare delivery has motivated Takeishi to investigate clinical biomarkers to stratify the risk of heart failure patients. Additionally, he has investigated the role of clonal hematopoiesis, a novel link between aging and cardiovascular diseases. He found that clonal hematopoiesis with JAK2V617F causally lead to development of pulmonary hypertension and aortic aneurysm. Productive collaboration with mentors, colleagues, and trainees has yielded more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Takeishi has served as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Cardiology.