9th COINS General Meeting was held on 25th January, Thursday.

The 9th General Meeting was held in the main conference room at the Life Science & Environment Research Center (LiSE) on Thursday, January 25, 2018. This meeting is held semi-annually with participation of all participating institutions.

Next year will be the last year of Phase 2 (Fiscal year 2016 – 2018).　 Towards the realization of in-body hospitals, we divided to the meeting to six topics and had presentation with awareness of differentiation and superiority from existing technology. We confirmed the progress of present plan of this year and next year's plan for phase 3. In panel discussion, we discussed the tasks towards social implementation.

In oral session, under the title "Establishment of center at Tonomachi International Strategic Zone King SkyFront, the vision of the surrounding area was introduced by Mr. Shigeyuki Shiratori, Director of International Strategy Promotion, Coastal Area International Strategy Headquarters, Kawasaki City, and the history and the facilities were introduced by Mr. Haruhiro Okuda, Vice-Director of the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS). He talked about the expectation for collaboration.

Furthermore, Mr. Toru Tanaka, Executive Vice President of SBI Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. Introduce his company which has just started to use the facilities of iCONM.

In poster session, there were 34 presentations and very active discussions were carried out among the researchers. Finally, Prof. Tatsuro Irimura, Juntendo University, Mr. Hiroshi Misawa, Medical Technology Association of Japan and Mr. Haruhiko Manabe, JST gave us feedback. The meeting was very productive to further strengthen the tie of the researchers.

1. Opening Remarks

• 
• Hiromichi KIMURA
  Project Leader of COINS

2. Future policy

Topics1 Miniaturized diagnostic device

• 
• Takanori ICHIKI
  Leader of Theme 4
  Professor, The University of Tokyo

Topics2 Integration with medical equipment

• 
• Nobuhiro NISHIYAMA
  Leader of Theme 5
  Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Lecture "Establishment of center at Tonomachi International Strategic Zone King SkyFront, the vision of the surrounding area″

• 
• Shigeyuki SHIRATORI
  Director of International Strategy Promotion,
  Coastal Area International Strategy Headquarters, Kawasaki City

Lecture "About The National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS)"

• 
• Haruhiko OKUDA
  Vice-Director, National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS)

Topics3　Development of nanomachines that carry messenger RNA (mRNA)

• 
• Kanjiro MIYATA
  Leader of Theme 1
  Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

Topics4　Recovery of exercise / sensory function

• 
• Keiji ITAKA
  Leader of Theme 3
  Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Introduce of SBI Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.

• 
• Toru TANAKA
  Executive Vice President
  SBI Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.

Topics5　Promotion of social implementation

• 
• Tomohiro ANZAI
  Leader of Theme 6
  Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

Topics6　New theme

• Hiroaki TAKEHARA
  Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
  
  
• Akira MATSUMOTO
  Associated Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  

• 
• Satoshi UCHIDA
  Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
  Assistant Professor

Conclusion

• Hirokaxu IWASAKI
  Leader, COINS Research Promotion Office
  
• Kazunori KATAOKA
  Research Leader of COINS
  

Panel Discussion

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Poster Session

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Advisor review

• Tatsuro IRIMURA
  COINS Advisor
  
• Hiroshi MISAWA
  COINS Advisor
  

• Haruhiko MANABE
  JST
  

Closing Remarks

• 
• Hiromichi KIMURA
  Project Leader of COINS

• The venue
  
• The reception