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News FY 2012
- 2013.3.12
- Our paper entitled "In vivo mRNA introduction into central nervous system" for PLOS ONE was carried on the column of Nikkankogyo Newspaper, Sankei Newspaper, etc.
- 2013.2.14
- 2013.1.25
- Professor Kazunori Kataoka will give a presentation at French-Japanese Seminar on
“Bioinspired methods and applications” on February 4th.
Program(PDF), Objective(PDF), Application form(Word)
- 2013.1.21
- 2013.1.16
- The leader of Sub-project III, Dr. Nishiyama became a professor at Polymer Chemistry Division, Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
- 2013.1.9
- Mr. Hiroyuki Chaya received the Best Poster Award at The 9th SPSJ International Polymer Conference (IPC 2012). His presentation title is "Design of PEGylated polyion complexes featuring single siRNA molecule ~Effect of chain lengths of PEG-b-polycations on the complex structure and properties~" (coauthers：S. Watanabe, H. Takemoto, S. Fukushima, K. Miyata, K. Osada, N. Nishiyama and K. Kataoka).
- 2013.1.9
- Ms. Mao Hori received the IPC2012 young scientist poster award at The 9th SPSJ International Polymer Conference (IPC2012). The presentation title is "Improved stability of PICsomes (polyion complex vesicles) against environmental changes by introducing guanidinium moieties in polycation segment" (coauthers：Y. Anraku, A. Kishimura and K. Kataoka).
- 2012.12.11
- Professor Kazunori Kataoka’s work on polymeric micelles has been highlighted in Nature Outlook “Nanotechnology: Carrying drugs”. The importance of the size of nanomedicines was illustrated with a picture from our recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology, “Accumulation of sub-100 nm polymeric micelles in poorly permeable tumours depends on size”.
More Information(Nature Outlook) More Information(Nature Nanotechnology)
- 2012.12.5
- Assistant Professor Kanjiro Miyata received The Award for Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Biomaterials (2012). The award-winning research title is "Fine-tuning of polymeric nanomaterials for enhanced nucleic acid delivery with lower cytotoxicity".
- 2012.12.5
- Dr. Satoshi Uchida received the Best Poster Award at Symposium 2012 of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials. His presentation title is "Development and functional analyses of nonviral carriers for in vivo mRNA delivery" (coauthers: Keiji Itaka, Kazunori Kataoka).
- 2012.11.27
- Nobuyoshi Kosaka (National Cancer Center) received Japanese Cancer Association Young Investigator Award.
- 2012.11.27
- The Yuji Miyahara Group (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) and The Atsushi Ochiya Group's (National Cancer Center) paper on a label-free electrical detection of exosomal microRNAs was selected to be highlighted at inside front cover of Chemical Communications (Volume 48, Issue 98,11942-11944, 2012)
- 2012.11.7
- Assistant Professor Kanjiro Miyata, Tokyou Univeisity received Award for Encouragement of Research in Materials Science; The Materials Research Society of Japan in IUMRS-ICEM 2012 (Sep/27/2012). The presentation title is "Smart Multilayered Polymer/Silica Assemblies for Enhanced siRNA Delivery" (coauthors: T. Suma, S. Watanabe, Y. Anraku, N. Gouda, T. Takemoto, T. Ishii, A. Kishimura, N. Nishiyama, K. Kataoka).
- 2012.10.24
- Our paper entitled "A Phenylboronate-Functionalized Polyion Complex Micelle for ATP-Triggered Release of siRNA" has been published on Angewandte Chemie (Volume 51, Issue 43, 10751-10755, 2012) and selected as a cover.
- 2012.10.22
- 2012.10.05
- Dr. Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, President of Karolinska Institutet visited Dr. Kazunori Kataoka’s Lab.
- 2012.09.01
- Research achievements of Prof. Kazunori Kataoka was carried on the column of Yomiuri Newspaper (September 1, 2012).
- 2012.8.21
- Our paper entitled "Accelerated Polymer-Polymer Click Conjugation by Freeze-Thaw Treatment" has been published on Bioconjugate Chemistry (Volume 23, Issue 8, 1503-1506, 2012) and selected as a cover.
- 2012.7.25
- Professor Kazunori Kataoka awarded the 2012 Leo Esaki Prize. Awards ceremony will be held on October, 2012 in Tsukuba, Japan.
- 2012.6.8
- Associate Professor Nobuhiro Nishiyama received Japanese Cancer Association Young Investigator Award. His presentation title is "Development of Polymeric Micelles as Drug Delivery System for Targeted Therapy of Intractable Cancers".