Kazuo Takayama
        
				
					
					
						
						Kazuo Takayama
	
					    
Department of Pulmonology, National Hospital Organization Disaster Medical Center, Japan                            
                            
						
					 
				 
								Biography
				Dr. Kazuo Takayama from the Center for iPS Cell Research and application (CiRA) at Kyoto University (Japan) has given a unique insight into his pioneering research that has successfully modelled the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle in undifferentiated iPSCs - which were previously uninfectable.