Takashi Kikuchi, Ph.D, D.Phil (Oxon)

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation; Foundation for Biomedical Research at Kobe

Lab URL: 

https://www.tri-kobe.org/

Areas of Interest: 

biostatistics

Biography & Research: 

Takashi Kikuchi is a unique medical scientist because he has two doctoral degrees in medical science (Nagoya University, Japan) and statistics (University of Oxford, UK). After he obtained the first doctoral degree, he continued basic research on P53 oncogene for several years in a company. During the duties, he recognized the importance of statistics and resigned from the company to study statistics in Australia (University of Newcastle) and the UK (University of Oxford). After he returned to Japan, as an expert statistician, he joined Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation, Kobe, Japan, and take important roles in clinical trials on study design, statistical analysis, and reporting. He is interested in developing a new methodology to measure the severity of Alzheimer’s disease and discovered a novel assessment algorithm, three-dimensional distance (TDD) for the ABC dementia scale. He is a Bayesian statistician.