Takashi Suzuki, Ph.D.

Takashi Suzuki, Ph.D., is an Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Nephrology.

Dr. Suzuki holds a bachelor’s degree and a master's degree in engineering from Yamagata University, in Yonezawa City, Japan. He earned his doctorate in geriatrics at Osaka University. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He also completed a research fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard University in Boston. 

Dr. Suzuki joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2021.

• Endothelial Cells
• Inflammation
• Vascular Biology

Featured Publications

Biosynthetic Crossover of 5-Lipoxygenase and Cyclooxygenase-2 Yields 5-Hydroxy-PGE₂ and 5-Hydroxy-PGD₂.

Nakashima F, Suzuki T, Gordon ON, Golding D, Okuno T, Giménez-Bastida JA, Yokomizo T, Schneider C, JACS Au 2021 Sep 1 9 1380-1388

Biomimetic synthesis of hemiketal eicosanoids for biological testing.

Giménez-Bastida JA, Suzuki T, Sprinkel KC, Boeglin WE, Schneider C, Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat 2017 09 132 41-46

Identification of a novel series of anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative phospholipid oxidation products containing the cyclopentenone moiety in vitro and in vivo: Implication in atherosclerosis.

Lu J, Guo S, Xue X, Chen Q, Ge J, Zhuo Y, Zhong H, Chen B, Zhao M, Han W, Suzuki T, Zhu M, Xia L, Schneider C, Blackwell TS, Porter NA, Zheng L, Tsimikas S, Yin H, J Biol Chem 2017 03 292 13 5378-5391

Discovery of Novel Splice Variants and Regulatory Mechanisms for Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein in Human Tissues.

Suzuki T, Swift LL, Sci Rep 2016 06 6 27308

Identification of a Novel Transcript and Regulatory Mechanism for Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein.

Suzuki T, Brown JJ, Swift LL, PLoS One 2016 11 1 e0147252

Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein (MTP) Associates with Cytosolic Lipid Droplets in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.

Love JD, Suzuki T, Robinson DB, Harris CM, Johnson JE, Mohler PJ, Jerome WG, Swift LL PLoS ONE 2015 10 8 e0135598

COX-2-dependent and -independent biosynthesis of dihydroxy-arachidonic acids in activated human leukocytes.

Tejera N, Boeglin WE, Suzuki T, Schneider C, J Lipid Res 2012 Jan 53 1 87-94

Biosynthesis of hemiketal eicosanoids by cross-over of the 5-lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase-2 pathways.

Griesser M, Suzuki T, Tejera N, Mont S, Boeglin WE, Pozzi A, Schneider C, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011 Apr 108 17 6945-50

Autoxidative and cyclooxygenase-2 catalyzed transformation of the dietary chemopreventive agent curcumin.

Griesser M, Pistis V, Suzuki T, Tejera N, Pratt DA, Schneider C, J Biol Chem 2011 Jan 286 2 1114-24

Eicosapentaenoic acid protects endothelial cells against anoikis through restoration of cFLIP.

Suzuki T, Fukuo K, Suhara T, Yasuda O, Sato N, Takemura Y, Tsubakimoto M, Ogihara T, Hypertension 2003 Sep 42 3 342-8