Takashi Namba's research focuses on the role of cell metabolism in brain development and diseases. 

His main study areas are the following: i) Role of evolutionarily adapted cell metabolism in neural stem cell behavior, ii) Defects in cell metabolism as a novel etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, iii) Misregulation of cell metabolism in glioblastoma malignancy.

Takashi Namba is a group leader at the Helsinki Institute of Life Science in Finland and at the Fujita Health University in Nagoya, Japan.