Asako Takanohashi, PhD, DMV

Dr. Asako Takanohashi is a laboratory director in the Leukodystrophy Center of Excellence at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She previously worked in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), an arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and holds a PhD in veterinary medicine from the Tokyo University as well as a DVM from Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University in Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Takanohashi will oversee the program’s biomarker studies, including sample processing, testing, and quality control and analysis of data. She will also contribute to data analysis and manuscript preparation.

Specifically, Dr. Takanohashi will serve as a co-investigator for Project 3 and Project 4.