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FY2015

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No. Date Prize winner(s) Award News
  3/15/2016 Nobuhiro NISHIYAMA (Tokyo Institute of Technology) The New Pharmaceutical Technology and Engineering Foundation 3rd Particle Design Award Development of a macromolecular micelle drug-delivery system that targets intractable cancer.
  3/11/2016 Yu FUKUSATO The University of Tokyo School of Engineering Dean’s Award Development of nanocarriers for drug delivery to neural systems across the blood-brain barrier.
  1/30/2016 Daiki SUEYOSHI (The University of Tokyo) Teijin 21st Century Forum Award of Excellence Development of enzyme-containing PIC vesicles that act as nanoreactors in the bloodstream.
  10/30/2015 Takanori Akagi, Nami Hanamura, Takanori Ichiki (The University of Tokyo) IEEJ Excellent Presentation Award Electrical evaluation of extracellular vesicles using microfluidic device technology
  11/16/2015 Keiji Itaka (University of Tokyo) 3rd International mRNA Health Conference Best poster Award CureVac GmbH.
Received the best poster award at 3rd International mRNA Health Conference. The presentation title is "A disease-modifying strategy for osteoarthritis treatment by introducing mRNA encoding cartilage-anabolic transcription factor".
  10/7/2015 Yusuke Yoshioka (National Cancer Center) Young Scientist Award of Japan Societey for Moleculer Tumor Marker Research ExoScreen provides a new diagnostic tool using circulating exosomes as a liquid biopsy
Japan Societey for Moleculer Tumor Marker Research
  10/5/2015 Takuya Watanabe(The University of Tokyo) 64th Symposium on Macromolecules Best Poster Presentation Award Development of dual ligands-decorated polymeric micelles directed to central nervous system
  9/8/2015 Kayoko Yanagihara(The University of Tokyo) Best Presentation Award at 15th summar seminar of Japanese Society for Gene Delivery Development of gene therapy for Achondroplasia
  8/24/2015 Kazunori Kataoka (The University of Tokyo) Advanced Materials Award 2015 Professor Kazunori Kataoka received "Advanced Materials Award 2015" from International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). Award ceremony and award lecture were held at Stockholm, Sweden on August 24, 2015.
  7/3/2015 Takuya Watanabe(The University of Tokyo) Best Presentation Award Development of dual-ligands decorated polymeric micelles delivering to central nervous system
  6/16/2015 Kanjiro Miyata(The University of Tokyo) Award for Encouragement of Research in Drug Delivery System Development of Nucleic Acid Delivery System Based on Polymeric Materials
  5/29/2015 Daiki Sueyoshi, Yasutaka Anraku, Kazunori Kataoka (The University of Tokyo) 64th SPSJ Annual Meeting Poster Award Development of enzyme-loaded PIC vesicles as functional nano-reactors in bloodstreams
  5/21/2015 Hiroya Kuwahara (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)Co-presenter: Yasutaka Anraku, Yu Fukusato, Keiko Nitta, Akihiro Mizoguchi, Kazutaka Nishina, Mizusawa Hidehiro, Kazunori Kataoka, Takanori Yokota The Best Oral Presentation Award at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology Development of a new drug delivery system that enables the transport of polymer drugs across the blood-brain barrier into brain
  3/23/2015 Kanjiro Miyata(The University of Tokyo) 2014 DDTR Outstanding Research Paper Award Multifunctional polyion complex micelle featuring enhanced stability, targetability, and endosome escapability for systemic siRNA delivery to subcutaneous model of lung cancer

FY2014

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No. Date Prize winner(s) Award News
  3/24/2015 Montira Tangsangasaksri Dean's award of graduate school of engineering, The University of Tokyo Development of Acidic pH-Responsive Polymeric Micelles Loading siRNA for Enhanced Endosome-Escapability
  3/23/2015 Kajiro Miyata(Tokyo University) 2014 DDTR Outstanding Research Paper Award The article (H. J. Kim, et al, Multifunctional polyion complex micelle featuring enhancedstability, targetability, and endosome escapability for systemic siRNA delivery to subcutaneous model of lung cancer, Drug Delivery and Translational Research (2014) 4:50-60) from Kataoka lab. was selected as the 2014 DDTR Outstanding Research Paper Award. Award Lecture will be given by Dr. Kanjiro Miyata, representing all the co-atuhors of this article, at the 2015 Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland during July 26-29, 2015.
  11/17/2014 Yuuki Mochida Best Presentation Award at the 23rd Polymer Materials Forum  
  10/30/2014 Makoto Tsunoda (The University of Tokyo) Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Kanto Branch Award for Young Scientists  
  10/9/2014 Mitsuru Naito, Takehiko Ishii, Akira Matsumoto, Kanjiro Miyata, Yuji Miyahara and Kazunori Kataoka (The University of Tokyo) Best Poster Award at the 63rd Symposium on Macromolecules  
  10/7/2014 Jun Makino, H. Cabral, Y. Miura, Y. Matsumoto, H. Kinoh, N. Nishiyama, and K. Kataoka (The University of Tokyo) nanoDDS 12th international nanomedicine & drug delivery symposium Best Poster Award  
  9/17/2014 Mizuo Maeda (RIKEN, a member institute of COINS) 2014 Award of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry  
  9/9/2014 Satoshi Uchida, Keiji Itaka, Kentaro Hayakawa, Toru Ogata and Kazunori Kataoka (The University of Tokyo) Young Investigator Award at the Antisense, Gene, Delivery Symposium 2014  
  8/31/2014 Naoto Yoshinaga, Takahiko Ishii, Taisuke Endo, Mitsuru Naito, Satoshi Uchida, Kensuke Osada, and Kazunori Kataoka Best Poster Award at the 13th summer seminar of the Society of Non-Traditional Technology  
  7/31/2014 Kayoko Yanagihara, Satoshi Uchida, Satoru Ikegami、Taisuke Endo, Yujiro Maeda, Shinsuke Ohba, Ung-il Chung, Takahiko Ishii、Keiji Itaka, and Kazunori Kataoka Best Presentation Award for young scientists at the 30th Japan DDS Conference  
  7/28/2014 Yuuki Mochida, H. Cabral, Yutaka Miura, F. Albertini, Kensuke Osada, Nobuhiro Nishiyama, and Kazunori Kataoka Best Presentation Award at the 43rd Biomedical Polymers Symposium (announced to encourage postdoctoral fellows)  
  7/28/2014 Kazunori Kataoka (The University of Tokyo) Lifetime Achievement Award Kazunori Kataoka received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Journal of Drug Targeting. This award is given to scientist who has made exceptional and sustained contributions to drug delivery and targeting medicine in the world.
  6/17/2014 Yu Fukusato, Yasutaka Anraku, Akihiro Mizoguchi, Takehiko Ishii, Hiroya Kuwahara, Keiko Nitta, Takanori Yokota, Kazunori Kataoka Outstanding Poster Presentation Award for the Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ) 63rd Annual Meeting Functional evaluation of polyion complex nano-machines for drug delivery toward neural system across the blood-brain barrier
  5/26/2014 Satoshi Uchida, Keiji Itaka, Kentaro Hayakawa, Toru Ogata, Kazunori Kataoka American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 17th Annual Meeting
Outstanding Poster Presentation Award
Treatment of spinal cord injury by transplantation of BDNF-transfected mesenchymal stem cell spheroids
  5/19/2014 Kazunori Kataoka (The University of Tokyo) SPSJ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science and Technology Prof. Kataoka (COINS’s Research Leader, the University of Tokyo) received the SPSJ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science and Technology from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan. The title of the award was "Development and Application of Biofunctionality Polymers".