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News FY 2018

3.17.2019
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar #43 at KING SKYFRONT.
April 16th (Tue.) 15:30–17:15 (Research Mixer 17:30～18:30 *JPY500)

Part1 15:30~15:55
"The briefing session of support program by Intellectual Property Division of AMED"
Mr. Kazuomi Iwatani
Manager, Intellectual Property Division
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development（AMED）

Part2 16:00~17:15
"COINS Seminar"
Speaker: Dr. Hiroatsu Nohara
Associated Researcher, Affiliation：Lest-CNRS / Aix-Marseille
University
Title: French medical cluster: the case of “Oncopole” in Toulouse
Venue: Kawasaki King Skyfront Tokyu REI Hotel Access
*It's not iCONM. Please take care of the venue.

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*Registration is now closed.
3.5.2019
【Activity Report】March 5th (Tue.), COINS Seminar #42 was held at iCONM.
Speaker: Dr. Joachim O. Rädler
Full Professor, Faculty of Physics and Center for NanoScience,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Title: " Single Cell Time-Lapse Imaging on Micro-Arrays
- transfection kinetics, apoptosis and cell migration "
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2.26.2019
【Press Release】The reserach team of Sub Theme3 Leader, Dr. Keiji Itaka （Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Laboratory head of iCONM Itaka lab.）issued a press release announcing the research paper published in Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids titled "Treatment of intervertebral disk disease by administration of messenger RNA encoding a cartilage-anabolic transcription factor".
2.14.2019
【News Coverage】Research Leader, Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) 's interview was introduced on Yomiuri Shimubun.
  • Patrol around the body targeting disease Practical use of smart Nanomachines
2.14.2019
【News Coverage】Sub Theme2 Leader, Dr. Yasutaka Anraku (Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo and a Visiting Scientist at iCONM） 's talk session (held on last Dec.) was introduced on NATIONAL MUSEUM OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND INNOVATION website.
2.13.2019
【News Coverage】Research Leader, Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) has been named a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher in Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) meaning that research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the corresponding field.
2.12.2019
【Information】COINS member, Akira Matsumoto (Associate Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University) and his research group's paper has publisshed on Advanced Function Materials. It was adopted as a back cover and Video abstract.
2.6.2019
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar #42 at iCONM.
March 5th (Tue.) 16:00–17:15 *Research Mixer has been canceled.
Speaker: Dr. Joachim O. Rädler
Full Professor, Faculty of Physics and Center for NanoScience,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Title: Single Cell Time-Lapse Imaging on Micro-Arrays
- transfection kinetics, apoptosis and cell migration

Venue: Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) 3F 3001 Access
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*Registration is now closed.
2.5.2019
【Awards】The team of Prof. Yoshihiro Muragaki (COINS member), Tokyo Women's Medical University received the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Award.
1.30.2019
【Activity Report】11th COINS General meeting was held on 19th January.
Related page is here.
1.22.2019
【News Coverage】Research Leader, Kazunori Kataoka (Director General, iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo)'s interview movie was launched on bt cn asia, internet TV of Singapore.
1.18.2019
【Activity Report】January 18th (Fri.) , COINS Seminar #41 was held at iCONM.
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen
Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: "Reactive Oxygen Species Goes Beyond Photodynamic Therapy"
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1.8.2019
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar #41 at LiSE.
January 18th (Fri.) 16:00–17:15 (Research Mixer 17:15-18:15 *JPY500)
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen
Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: "Reactive Oxygen Species Goes Beyond Photodynamic Therapy"

* Venue has changed to iCONM 3001
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*Registration is now closed.
1.7.2019
【News Coverage】The article about COINS was introduced Weekly Igakukai Newspaper.

Dr. Yasuhiro Matsumura (Division Head, Division of Developmental Therapeutics, National Cancer Center Exploratory Oncology Research & Clinical Trial Center, Principal Research Scientist, iCONM) supervised it and introduced about Nanomachine and clinica trial. Dr. Nobuhiro Nishiyama, COINS Theme 5 Leader (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology Institute of Innovative Research / iCONM Principal Research Scientist) joined the discussion.
1.7.2019
【Activity Report】January 7th (Mon.) , COINS Seminar #40 was held at iCONM.
Speaker: Mr. Seiji Yano
Professor, Cancer Research Institute of Kanazawa University
Title: "Circumvention of targeted drug resistance in CNS metastasis"
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12.17.2018
【News Coverage】COINS member Dr. Satochi Uchida (Visiting Scientist, iCONM, Project Associate Prof., The University of Tokyo)'s research was introduced on UTokyo Research.
12.16.2018
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar #40 at iCONM.
January 7th (Mon.) 16:00–17:15
Speaker: Mr. Seiji Yano
Professor, Cancer Research Institute of Kanazawa University
Title: "Circumvention of targeted drug resistance in CNS metastasis"

Venue: Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) 3F 3001 Access
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*Registration is now closed.
12.14.2018
【Activity Report】We had The 5th COINS Symposium.
Related page is here
12.7.2018
【Activity Report】December 7th (Fri.) , COINS Seminar #39 was held at iCONM.
Speaker: Dr. Yan Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Seoul National University (SNU), Korea
Title: "β-acid amide-based materials: charge-conversion chemistry and new polymeric materials"
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12.4.2018
【News Coverage】Research Leader, Kazunori Kataoka (Director General, iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo)'s Lecture was introduced on Zaikai magazine (Vol.4 Dec.).
11.28.2018
Research Leader, Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) has been named a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher in Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) meaning that research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the corresponding field.
11.15.2018
Feature article of "In-body hospitals" which is the core theme of iCONM / COINS was published in Nature.
Following Prof. Kazunori Kataoka's interview article, the efforts of iCONM / COINS, National Cancer Research Center East Hospital, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Braizon Therapeutics and Quantum Science and Technology Research and Development organization are introduced.
11.7.2018
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar #39 at iCONM.
December 7th (Fri.) 11:00–12:00
Speaker: Dr. Yan Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Seoul National University (SNU), Korea
Title: "β-acid amide-based materials: charge-conversion chemistry and new polymeric materials"

Venue: Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) 3F 3001 Access
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*Registration is now closed.
11.5.2018
【News Coverage】Research Leader, Kazunori Kataoka (Director General, iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo)'s research was introduced on Nipponkeizai Newspaper.
10.29.2018
【Activity Report】October 29th (Mon.) , COINS Seminar #38 was held at iCONM.
Speaker: Dr. Weibo Cai
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Title: "Molecular Imaging, Image-Guided Drug Delivery, and Theranostics"
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10.28.2018
【News Coverage】COINS member Dr. Takahiro Ochiya (National Cancer Center Research Institute) 's group and their research was introduced on Nipponkeizai Newspaper.
10.19.2018
Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General, iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) 's article "Enhanced intracellular Delivery of siRNA by Controlling ATP-Responsivity of Phenylboronic Acid-Functionalized Polyion Complex Micelles" published in Macromolecular Bioscience was one of the journal's top 20 most downloaded recent papers amongst artiacles published between July 2016 and June 2018.
10.15.2018
【Award】Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General, iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) and Sub Theme2 Leader, Dr. Yasutaka Anraku (Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo and a guest researcher at iCONM）'s research was introduced on Nipponkeizai Newspaper.
10.3.2018
【Activity Report】September 10th (Wed.) , COINS Seminar #37 was held at iCONM.
Speaker: Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert
Prof. of Organic-/Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Title: "New pharmapolymers and nanoparticles for applications in nanomedicine"
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10.1.2018
【Information】We will hold the 5th COINS Symposium.

Date: Dec. 14（Fri.）13:00～(Registration starts at 12:30)
Venue: Ground Floor & 4th Floor, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion Hall
Language: Japanese & English *Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
Research mixer: 5000yen
Registration Fee: Free
* Please register online.

The symposium website can be found here.
9.29.2018
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar #38 at iCONM.
October 29th (Mon.) 16:00–17:15 (Research Mixer 17:15-18:00 *JPY500)
Speaker: Dr. Weibo Cai
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

Title: "Molecular Imaging, Image-Guided Drug Delivery, and Theranostics"

Venue: Life Science & Enviroment research center. (LiSE) 1F Conference room Access
*It's located opposite side of iCONM
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*Registration is now closed.
9.25.2018
【Activity Report】September 10th (Mon.) , COINS Seminar #36 was held at iCONM.
Speaker: Dr. Kazue Kurihara
Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University
Title: "Surface Forces Measurement for Materials Science, Applications for Polymer Brush and Gel"
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9.12.2018
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar Vol.37 at LiSE.
October 3rd (Wed.) 16:00–17:15 (Research Mixer 17:15-18:15 *JPY500)
Speaker: Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert
Professor of Organic-/Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Title: "New pharmapolymers and nanoparticles for applications in nanomedicine"

Venue: Life Science & Enviroment research center. (LiSE) 1F Conference room Access
*It's located opposite side of iCONM
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*Registration is now closed.
9.10.2018
【Activity Report】September 10th (Mon.) , COINS Seminar #35 was held at LiSE.
Speaker: Shin Kwak, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine
Title: "ALS-targeted therapy and biomarker development"
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9.10.2018
【Activity Report】The “JST Fair 2018 - Future Industrial Creation with Scientific Technology,” which was organized by JST, was held at Tokyo Big site on Aug. 30 (Thurs.) and Aug. 31 (Fri.). COINS exhibited our research contents at our booth.
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9.4.2018
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar Vol.36 at iCONM.
September 25th (Tue.) 16:00–17:15 *Today's research mixer was canceled
Speaker: Dr. Kazue Kurihara
Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University
Title: "Surface Forces Measurement for Materials Science, Applications for Polymer Brush and Gel"

Venue: Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) room 3001 Access
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*Registration is now closed.
8.31.2018
【Information】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo） was awarded the honorary doctorate (Doktor der Naturwissenshaften ehrenhalber; Dr. rer. Nat. H. C.) from Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz University) in Germany.

The honorary doctorate of Mainz University is awarded to researchers who have globally achieved exceptionally high level of performance. This time, Dr. Kataoka's research titled "Development of Polymer Therapeutics and Their Application to Cancer Treatment" was highly appreciated in the Faculty of "Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Earth Sciences" and it was the first time in eight years for the Faculty to be awarded.
The award ceremony was held at Mainz University in August 31, and a commemorative symposium was held at the same time.
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Program
8.10.2018
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar Vol.35 at iCONM.
September 10th (Mon.) 16:15–17:30 (Research Mixer 17:35-18:30 *JPY500)
Speaker: Shin Kwak, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist, University of Tokyo,
Graduate School of Medicine

Title: "ALS-targeted therapy and biomarker development"

Venue: Life Science & Enviroment research center. (LiSE) 1F Conference room Access
*It's located opposite side of iCONM
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*Registration is now closed.
7.22.2018
【Activity Report】AccuRna, Inc., team of COINS was featured in the episode of the highly acclaimed TV series, Innovations TV with Ed Begley, Jr., aired on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 (U.S. time) via CNBC.
Related page is here.
7.20.2018
【Activity Report】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) had lectuer at Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion Ceremony of Celebrating 30th Anniversary and it was introduced on some newspapers.
7.18.2018
【Award】Dr. Akira Matsumoto who is one of the COINS' members (Associate Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University and a guest researcher at iCONM) was received 2nd Japan Bioindustry Association Award for Young Scientists.
His research title was "Development of "electronics-free" and totally synthetic artificial pancreas".
7.18.2018
【TV】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) is going to appear on TV program. He'll talking about the potencial of In-body hospitals for Alzheimer's disease.
7.11.2018
【TV】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) is going to appear on TV program. He'll talking about the potencial of In-body hospitals for Cancer.
7.9.2018
【Activity Report】July 9th (Mon.), COINS Seminar #34 was held at LiSE.
Speaker: Mr.Toshio NAGAE
              Pharma Business Consultant, PeptiDream, HMT
              Representative, Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Title: "Value Optimization of JP-origin Drugs/DDS, Issues and Alternative Solutions"
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6.26.2018
【Award】Mr. Naoto Yoshinaga (Trainee of iCONM, The University of Tokyo) received The Best Oral Presentation Award from the 34th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System.
  • Title: Stabilization of mRNA loading polyplex micelle structure by using small number of cholesteryl RNA oligonucleotides for efficient mRNA translation in mouse lung
6.25.2018
【Information】COINS reseacher Dr. Sabina Quader is challenging crowd-funding.
As part of research towards the realization of Dr. Kazunori Kataoka, Director-General's "In-body hospitals",
"Glioblastoma Multiforme treatment" is the theme this time.

6.21.2018
【TV】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) is going to appear on TV program. He'll talking about the potencial of In-body hospitals for Alzheimer's disease.
6.19.2018
【Activity report】10th COINS General Meeting was held on Tuesday, June 19.
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6.12.2018
【News】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) 's interview was introduced on Nikkan Gendai.
6.10.2018
【Information】We will hold the COINS Seminar Vol.34 at iCONM.
July 9th (Mon.) 16:00–17:15 (Research Mixer 17:15～18:15 *JPY500)
Speaker: Mr.Toshio NAGAE
Pharma Business Consultant, PeptiDream, HMT
Position: Representative, Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Title: "Value Optimization of JP-origin Drugs/DDS, Issues and Alternative Solutions"

Venue: Life Science & Enviroment research center. (LiSE) 1F Conference room Access
*It's located opposite side of iCONM
Click here for details.(Japanese Only)
*Registration is now closed.
5.28.2018
【Information】COINS reseacher Mr.Takuya Miyazaki is challenging crowd-funding.
As part of research towards the realization of Dr. Kazunori Kataoka, Director-General's "In-body hospitls",
"Pancreatic cancer treatment" is the theme this time.

▶Academic crowd-funding website 「academist」
   "I want to get rid of "cancer stem cells" of pancreatic cancer on pinpoint!
   Takuya Miyazaki, Trainee of iCONM

Thank you for your kind support!
5.25.2018
【Information】iCONM, core institution of COINS opened Twitter and Facebook.
Focusing on news and events of COINS, iCONM will continue to transmit the information globally toward realization of "In-body hospitals" from Kawasaki.

We appreciate your retweet, follow & like! Thank you.
5.21.2018
【News】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) 's interview was posted in academist Journal. iCONM special page will appear in "academist" specialized in crowd-funding in a few days！
5.14.2018
【Activity Report】May 14th (Mon.), COINS Seminar #33 was held at LiSE.
Speaker: Dr. Mariko Harada-Shiba
              Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Title: "Development of antisense drug targeting refractory dyslipidemia"
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5.14.2018
【News Coverage】Research Leader, Dr. Kazunori Kataoka (Director General of iCONM, Professor, The University of Tokyo) was introduced on Shuukangendai.
▶Photo reportage: Mankind overcomes "cancer" by Nanomedicine
4.27.2018
【News Coverage】The interview of Sub theme 2 Leader, Dr. Yasutaka Anraku (Assistant professor, The University of Tokyo) was introduced on Kawasaki Shisei Dayori.
▶The future starting from the coastal area
   Research of nanomachines that deliver the drug to brain is on the way
4.25.2018
【Information】 We will hold the COINS Seminar#33 at iCONM.
May 14th (Mon.) 16:00–17:15 (Research Mixer 17:15～18:15 *JPY500)
Speaker: Dr. Mariko Harada-Shiba
Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Title: "Development of antisense drug targeting refractory dyslipidemia"

Venue: Life Science & Enviroment research center. (LiSE) 1F Conference room Access
*It's located opposite side of iCONM

Click here for details.(Japanese Only)
*Registration is now closed.
4.24.2018
【Activity Report】 April 24th (Tue.), COINS Seminar #32 was held at iCONM.
April 24th (Tue.) 16:00–17:15
Speaker: Dr. Takao Inoue
Chief of laboratory, National Institute of Health Sciences
Title: "Trend of development and regulation of oligonucleotide therapeutics"
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4.10.2018
【Information】 We will hold the COINS Seminar#32 at iCONM.
April 24th (Tue.) 16:00–17:15 (Research Mixer 17:15~18:45 *JPY500)
Speaker: Dr. Takao Inoue
Chief of laboratory, National Institute of Health Sciences
Title: "Trend of development and regulation of oligonucleotide therapeutics"

♦Venue has changed!♦
New Venue: Life Science & Enviroment research center. (LiSE) 1F Conference room Access
*It's located opposite side of iCONM

Click here for details.(Japanese Only)
*Registration is now closed.
4.1.2018
【News Coverage】 The interview of COINS researcher, Dr. Shigehito Osawa (Assistant professor, Tokyo University of Science, Visiting Scientist, iCONM) was introduced on Kawasaki city Shiseiyouran2018.
▶Kawasaki Municipal Directory
   Special feature: People of Kawasaki Passion x Unity
   No.3 Technology
   Hope to make medicine from King SkyFront

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