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Doctoral student wins Presentation award at JBS annual meeting

Doctoral student wins Presentation Award at JBS Annual Meeting

IAB graduate student Mr. Kenjiro Kami (Graduate School of Media and Governance, doctoral program) received Presentation Award at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society (Oct.21-24, 2009), organized by The Japanese Biochemical Society . The title of his presentation is "Metabolome analysis of cancer cells under nutrient-deprived condition by capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry"

 

Discovery of a new therapeutic method to prevent the progress of a chronic kidney disease

Discovery of a new therapeutic method to prevent the progress of a chronic kidney disease

Prof. Takaaki Abe, Division of Medical Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering working in collaboration with a group of researchers including Prof. T. Soga of the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, has discovered a new therapeutic target of chronic kidney disease "OATP-R" in a kidney. The OATP-R possesses the ability to reduce the accumulation of uremic toxins, however, its effect diminishes under the condition of renal failure. This research group has discovered that various statins, used as hypolipidemics, upregulate the expression of OATP-R, thus, intake of those statins leads to accrual of OATP-R to discharge uremic toxins out of a body and improve organ dysfunction. This research has developed a new therapeutic method to prevent the progress of renal failure including introduction of dialysis.

The article of this discovery was published in the electronic version of Journal of American Society of Nephrology on October 29. http://jasn.asnjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/ASN.2009070696

 

Obtained a patent for state-of-the-art metabolome analysis technology

Obtained a patent for state-of-the-art metabolome analysis technology A group of IAB researchers including Prof. T. Soga had obtained a patent for their invention "Metabolomic Profiling of Anionic Me...

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The 1st CE-MS Metabolomics Workshop

The 1st CE-MS Metabolomics Workshop held by IAB The 1st CE-MS Metabolomics Workshop was held on October 16, 2009 (Friday). (Co-host: Keio University Global Center of Excellence Program "Center for Hum...

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Professor M. Tomita wins the Metabolomics Society Distinguished Service Award

Professor M. Tomita wins the Metabolomics Society Distinguished Service Award IAB Director, Prof. M. Tomita received the award for Distinguished Service to the Metabolomics Society at The 5th Interna...

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20 Most Promising University-based Startups

Two IAB-Keio University Spinout BioVentures selected among top 20 Most Promising University-based Startups by METI

Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc. (Head Office: Tsuruoka city, Yamagata Prefecture, President: Ryuji Kanno) and Spiber Inc. (Head Office: Tsuruoka city, Yamagata Prefecture, President: Kazuhide Sekiyama) recognized to be among the 20 Most Promising University-based Startups in "Report of Fundamental Survey on University-based Startups in FY 2008" by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

 

Systematic identification of cell cycle-dependent yeast nucleocytoplasmic shuttling proteins by pred

Systematic identification of cell cycle-dependent yeast nucleocytoplasmic shuttling proteins by prediction of composite motifs

IAB scientists Dr. S. Kosugi and Prof. H. Yanagawa' just published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online (PNAS Online) on 11 June, 2009 results of a new study on nucleoplasmic shuttling proteins.

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Metabolomic Profiling of Anionic Metabolites by Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry

Metabolomic Profiling of Anionic Metabolites by Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry

A group of IAB researchers including Prof. T. Soga working in collaboration with colleagues at Agilent Technologies, Inc. published the findings of a new study entitled "Metabolomic Profiling of Anionic Metabolites by Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry" in Analytical Chemistry on 12 June, 2009.

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Dr. Fujishima wins Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (NRMCB) Poster Prize at RNA2009

Dr. Fujishima wins Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (NRMCB) Poster Prize at RNA2009

IAB scientist Dr. Fujishima was awarded Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (NRMCB) Poster Prize at The 14th annual meeting of the RNA Society (RNA2009).The title of the poster is "Tri-split tRNA: A novel type of transfer RNA produced from three transcripts via trans-splicing",the world's first discovery of genes in jigsaw-like pieces from an archaeon living in hot spring.

 

Measurement of internal body time by blood metabolomics

Measurement of internal body time by blood metabolomics

A study by a group of IAB researchers including Yuji Kakazu and Professor Tomoyoshi Soga working in collaboration with Yoichi Minami, Takeya Kasukawa and Hiroki R. Ueda, Team Leader, of Laboratory for Systems Biology and Functional Genomics Unit, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Director: Masatoshi Takeichi) reveals a method for measuring bodily time by analyzing metabolic products in the blood using a combined liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry technique developed at IAB. This new approach to reading circadian status is published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online (PNAS Online) on 1 June, 2009.

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Could anti-parasitic drugs be effective against cancer?

Could anti-parasitic drugs be effective against cancer? Metabolomic analysis suggests that cancer uses the same type of metabolism as roundworms Results of joint research project (Project of Early C...

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"CE/MS method" wins The Prize of the Chairman of Hatsumei Kyokai

"CE/MS method" wins The Prize of the Chairman of Hatsumei Kyokai (Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation)

IAB scientist Prof. T. Soga was awarded The Prize of the Chairman of Hatsumei Kyokai (Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation) for "Invention of CE/MS method" (Patent No. 3341765) at 2009 National Commendation for Invention, sponsored by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation.

 

IAB appoints four local high school students as "RA-U18" research assistants

IAB appoints four local high school students as "RA-U18" research assistants to participate in world-leading research Four local high school students joined on-going cutting edge projects at IAB, sta...

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164th Committee on Genome Technology

164th Committee on Genome Technology

The 30th Workshop of the 164th Committee on Genome Technology was held on Apr 24-25, 2009 at Tsuruoka Metabolome Campus. This event was sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

 

IAB joint research project selected as "City Area Program"

IAB joint research project selected as "City Area Program"

IAB will be a partner in a project entitled "Project for creation of high-functional food science industry cluster" led by Yamagata prefecture and Tsuruoka city, that was selected as "City Area Program" by MEXT, a Ministry of the Japanese government.

"What is a City Area Program?" >>

City Area Program2009 Website(Japanese) >>

 

Nikkei BP Technology Award

Professor M. Itaya and Assistant Professor K. Tsuge win the 19th NikkeiBP Technology Award

IAB scientists Prof. M. Itaya and Assistant Prof. K. Tsuge were awarded the 19th NikkeiBP Technology Award, Category of Medicine & Biotechnology. on April 6, 2009.

The 19th NikkeiBP Technology Award website(Japanese) >>

 

Spring Science Camp 2009

Date: Mar 24(Tue)-26(Thu), 2009Sponsored by: Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST)Co-sponsored by: Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and IAB, Keio UniversityVenue: IAB, Keio University...

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The 9th Japan Biotechnology Business Competition

IAB students win prize at The 9th Japan Biotechnology Business Competition

The research project of IAB students Mr.Kazuhide Sekiyama and Mr.Junichi Sugahara got the first prize in the 9th Japan Biotechnology Business Competition.

The 9th Japan Biotechnology Business Competition website>>

 

The World's First Discovery of genes in jigsaw-like pieces from an archaeon living in hot spring

Finding of graduate students is published in PNAS (online)The World's First Discovery of genes in jigsaw-like pieces from an archaeon living in hot spring--- A new insight into the origin of genes ---...

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IAB and Carna Biosciences, Inc. launched joint research for new system to evaluate the effect of kin

IAB and Carna Biosciences, Inc. launched joint research for new system to evaluate the effect of kinase inhibitors

IAB and Carna Biosciences, Inc. announced that they launch joint research to analyze the function of kinase which are targeted by many anti-cancer drugs and apply a system to evaluate the effect of kinase inhibitors quantitatively.

>> Carna Biosciences, Inc. Press Release (Japanese)

 

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