Charles Fumito Taketa Seminar
Charles Fumito Taketa, PhD
Charles Fumito Taketa was born March 10, 1926, in Waimea on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. He received his A.B. at Washington University in 1950 and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1957.
In 1958, he was appointed to the faculty of Marquette University School of Medicine as an instructor in Biochemistry and later promoted to Assistant Professor. As the school became the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1967, he continued his ascent to Associate Professor, then to Professor in 1973. From 1980 to 1982, he was acting Chair, and from 1982 he was Vice Chair of the Department of Biochemistry. His research career, which was devoted to understanding the chemical basis of hemoglobin function and later the toxicity of organotin compounds, was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Wisconsin Heart Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Midwest Children's Cancer Center. He was a Fogarty Scholar at Kings College, London from 1975 to 1976, and in 1987 he received the Medical College's Distinguished Service Award. He died on June 1, 1990.
Friends and family of Charles Fumito Taketa established the Charles Fumito Taketa Memorial Fund at the Medical College of Wisconsin to promote graduate education in Biochemistry.
Past Invited Speakers
April 2017
James A. Wells, PhD - University of California, San Francisco
April 2015
William S. Sly, MD - Saint Louis University
April 2014
Ajit Varki, MD - University of California, San Diego
October 2011
Melanie H. Cobb, PhD - UT Southwestern Medical Center
October 2009
John Markley, PhD - University of Wisconsin – Madison
May 2007
Natalie Ahn, PhD - University of Colorado, Boulder
May 2006
Jack Dixon, PhD - University of California, San Diego
April 2004
Phillip A. Cole, MD, PhD - Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
October 2002
William S. Reznikoff, PhD - University of Wisconsin – Madison
April 2002
Rowena G. Matthews, PhD - University of Michigan
April 2001
Gregory Petsko, PhD - Brandeis University
September 1999
Hector DeLuca, PhD - University of Wisconsin – Madison
October 1998
James L. Lessard, PhD - Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
April 1998
Jonathan Stamler, MD - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center
October 1996
Bettie Sue Masters, PhD - University of Texas Health Science Center
October 1995
Richard T. Okita, PhD - Washington State University
May 1994
Robert G. Kemp, PhD - University Health Science Center, Chicago Medical School
September 1992
Grant Mauk, PhD - University of British Columbia
October 1991
John W. Suttie, PhD - University of Wisconsin – Madison