On Friday, December 14, the 5th COINS Symposium was held.

The 5th COINS Symposium was held at the Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion Hall on Friday, December 14, The theme of this time was “Shaping a dream! In-body hospitals” －Future health care created by Kawasaki ventures－.
We invited Dr. Catherine Mohr, US headquarters vice president of Intuctive Surgical Companies that developed a minimally invasive surgical robot "Da Vinci" as a keynote speaker. She made a presentation not only on technical innovation but also a method of sustainable future medical equipment that carefully conducts medical economic analysis.

In two sessions of “Nanocarrier crossing the BBB (blood brain barrier) into the brain” and “Nanomachines that carry messenger RNA (mRNA)”, Dr. Mariko Tosu, President & CEO, Braizon Therapeutiacs, Inc. and Dr. Shiro Akinaga, President and CEO, AccuRna, Inc., two COINS participating venture companies, updated their social implementation and plans besides their research outcome. There were many questions from visitors and active discussions were held after the sessions. For poster session, in addition to the posters of researchers and companies (38 cases), small and medium enterprises related to medical care in Kawasaki City exhibited their products as a "Medical and Engineering collaboration”. and it became a big crowd.

In the final panel discussion session, Dr. Hiromichi Kimura, COINS Project Leader as a moderator, interesting topics were discussed such as why Dr. Mohr, vice president, Dr. Mariko Tosu, president and Dr. Akinaga, president got involved in venture companies based on the theme of charm and possibilities of venture companies.
Moreover, there were very active discussion among Dr. Sayaka Tomihara, Director, Medical and Assistive Device Industries Office, Healthcare Industries Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry（METI）, symposium presenters and Director of Kawasaki institute of Industrial Promotion how to create innovation eco system in life science in the future Kawasaki City.

There were more than 200 participants, mainly Kawasaki citizens and companies, and it was a valuable opportunity to see that there is great interest in continuing COINS activities toward realization of “in-body hospitals”. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who visited us.

Greetings

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  Hiromichi KIMURA, COINS Project Leader / Professor, The University of Tokyo

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  Chairman Hiroshi ATSUMI,
  Sub-Leader, COINS Research Promotion Office
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  Chairman Sabina QUADER,
  Senior Research Scientist, iCONM

Keynote Lecture

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  Catherine MOHR,
  Vice President, Strategy,
  Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
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COINS / iCONM Outline

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  Kazunori KATAOKA, COINS Research Leader / Director General, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) / Professor, The University of Tokyo

Oral Session 1 <Nanocarrier crossing the BBB (blood brain barrier) into the brain >

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  Yasutaka ANRAKU, Leader, Theme2 COINS / Associate Professor, Dept. Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo / Visiting Scientist, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM)
  
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  Mariko TOSU,
  President & CEO, Braizon Therapeutics, Inc.

Oral Session 2 <Nanomachines that carry messenger RNA (mRNA) >

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  Satoshi UCHIDA,
  Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo / Visiting Scientist, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM)
  
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  Shiro AKINAGA,
  Chairman of the board, CEO, AccuRna, Inc.

【Poster Session】Actions of COINS, companies and research institutions of Kawasaki

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【Medicine and engineering Cooperation corner】

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Panel Discussion

• 【Panelist presentation】
  
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  Sayaka TOMIHARA,
  Director, Medical and Assistive Device Industries Office, Healthcare Industries Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

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• <Moderator>
  Hiromichi KIMURA, COINS Project Leader
  / Professor, The University of Tokyo
  
  <Panelists>
  Catherine MOHR,
  Vice President, Strategy,
  Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
  
  Sayaka TOMIHARA,
  Director, Medical and Assistive Device Industries Office, Healthcare Industries Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Presentation of Poster Awards

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  Hyun Jin KIM,
  Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine,
  Graduate School of Medicine,
  The University of Tokyo
  
  Samuel T. CROWLEY,
  Department of Biofunction Research, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)
  / Visiting Scientist, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM)
  
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  Miki MASAI,
  Department of research and development,
  AccuRna Inc.

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  Closing Remarks
  
  Atsushi MIURA, Director, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion
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  Venue