Takashi D.Y. Kozai

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Education

PhD in Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2011

MS in Biomeidcal Engineering, University of Michigan, 2007

BA in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005

BA in Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005

CV

Takashi Kozai is the Ernest E. Roth Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the B.I.O.N.I.C. Lab. His research examines the neurocomputational roles of glial and mural cells in healthy and diseased brain, and the biophysics of electrical and ultrasonic neural recording and stimulation at the tissue-electrode interface. Dr. Kozai received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2011, with foundational training in bio-inspired design, bio-templating, and biomimicry at the University of Colorado Boulder. His laboratory employs chronic in vivo two-photon microscopy, functionally evoked electrophysiology, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, post-mortem immunohistochemistry, and transgenic and AAV-based biological intervention strategies. This work has produced multiple awarded and pending patents, a spinout company, and publications across high-impact venues including Nature Materials.

Patents:

1.      Kozai TDY, Vazquez AL. Wireless Micro/Nano-Stimulation Opto-electrode for excitable tissue. US62/078,779 (pending)

2.      Kozai TDY, Langhals NB, Kipke DR, Patel PR, Deng X, Zhuang, H, Lahann J, Kotov N. Implantable Micro-Components Electrode. US9,907,475

3.      Kozai TDY, Langhals NB, Kipke DR, Patel PR, Deng X, Zhuang, H, Lahann J, Kotov N. Implantable Micro-Components Electrode. EPO 2,582,288

4.      Kozai TDY, Gibson MD, Purcell E. System and method for transdermal drug delivery. US8,404,255 

5.      Kozai TDY, Kipke DR, Subbaroyan J. Probe insertion device for implanting a probe into tissue (Method) US8,852,206 

6.      Kozai TDY, Kipke DR, Subbaroyan J. Probe insertion device for implanting a probe into tissue (Device) US9,814,489

7.      Gilgunn P, Ozdoganlar OB, Kozai TDY, Cui XT, Weber DJ, Fedder GK. Apparatus for self-referencing neural prosthetic insertion. US9408571 ,