RCAST NAVI 2018/01

** RCAST NAVI - 2018/01/30
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** Press Release
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UTokyo concludes agreement to develop personalized cancer vaccine
Research collaboration focusing on a novel method for neoantigen identification
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The University of Tokyo entered an agreement for developing a personalized cancer vaccine using a novel method involving the body's immune response. The collaborative research agreement was concluded with the Kanagawa Cancer Center in Yokohama and BrightPath Biotherapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company based in Tokyo.
The collaboration consisting of genomic, proteomic (studying the set of proteins produced by a certain genome) and immunology research is led by Professor Hiroyuki Aburatani and Associate Professor Takeshi Kawamura of the University of Tokyo, with Dr. Tetsuro Sasada, director of the Cancer Vaccine Center at the Kanagawa Cancer Center, and BrightPath also participating.
(http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/report/2018/0125_en.html)


** Research News
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Aberrant DNA methylation of pregnane X receptor underlies metabolic gene alterations in the diabetic kidney
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The research group including Project Associate Professor Takeshi Marumo and Emeritus Professor Toshiro Fujita at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo and Dr Atsushi Watanabe at Department of Nephrology and Endocrinology, National Defense Medical College have demonstrated that diabetes induces aberrant DNA methylation of nuclear receptor PXR in the kidney.
(http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/report/2017/1218_en.html)


** Research News
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Luciola
A Millimeter-Scale Light-Emitting Particle Moving in Mid-Air Based On Acoustic Levitation and Wireless Powering
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Authors:
Associate Professor Makoto Takamiya, VDEC, Associate Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, and Visiting researcher Takayuki Hoshi, RCAST, and other researchers.
(http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/foee/press/setnws_201801091519501386611307.html)


** EVENT
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February 16, 2018 RCAST Winter Seminar on Quantum Physics
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We would be delighted if you could join us for the RCAST Winter Seminar on Quantum Physics 2018 in collaboration with Hitachi Cambridge:
When: Friday 16 February 2018 / 14:00-16:00
Where: ENEOS Hall, 1st Floor, Building 3-S, RCAST, UTokyo
Who will be speaking: World-leading researchers - Joerg Wunderlich & M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba from Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in UK
Language: English
Registration Method:Advance registration required. Send email to 'international@rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp'.
(http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2018/pdf/20180216.pdf)