Takebe Takanori

Leading researcher in regenerative medicine and the study of organoids. Professor of stem cell and organoid medicine at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Medicine, special professor at the Advanced Medical Research Center of Yokohama City University, and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo’s Institute of Integrated Research. Also conducts basic research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Graduated from Yokohama City University’s School of Medicine and holds a doctorate in medicine. In 2024, he received the Ig Nobel Prize for discovering that mammals can absorb oxygen through their anus.