Masaharu Takemura

Masaharu Takemura is a professor of molecular biology and giant virus biology at the Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science. He earned a Ph.D. from Nagoya University in 1998 and researches virology, cell biology, evolutionary biology, and the origins of the eukaryotic nucleus.

Takemura is the author of The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, published in 2009, and The Manga Guide to Biochemistry. He has also published research on DNA replication, giant viruses, and eukaryotic evolution.