Dr. Emi Takashita is a Technical Official at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan and a Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Japan. She specialized in influenza viruses as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Japan and then became an assistant professor of the Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Takashita joined the Influenza Virus Research Center at the NIID, one of the WHO Collaborating Centres for Reference and Research on Influenza, in 2009, and has been leading the Antiviral Resistance Surveillance Team. Her team monitors the susceptibility of influenza viruses to NA inhibitors, M2 inhibitors and RNA polymerase inhibitors.

Dr. Takashita is a member of the WHO GISRS Expert Working Group for Surveillance of Antiviral Susceptibility (WHO-AVWG) and an external expert of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Japanese regulatory agency.

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