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Last updated, December 26,2023 | [Movie introduction]

What's New!

2023.11.27 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a lecture at the 10th Study Group on "New Modalities and Synthetic Organic Chemistry" of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.
2023.11.25 The 6th Satellite Symposium of the Biological Session of the Japanese Society of Nucleic Acid Medicine held at Webiner.
2023.10.27 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a presentation at the National Cancer Center (NCC) Venture Incubation Program interim report meeting.
2023.10.22 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a lecture on siRNA at TRIANGLE @ Imperial Hotel Osaka hosted by Novartis Pharma.
2023.10.15 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a lecture on siRNA at TRIANGLE@Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo, hosted by Novartis Pharma.
2023.9.22 Kumiko Ui-Tei spoke at the GTIE Essence Forum.
2023.8.30 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a lecture in the integrated lecture "Nucleic Acid Engineering" at the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.
2023.7.14 Seongjin AN received the Kawahara Award at the 8th Japanese Society of Nucleic Acid Medicine!
2023.7.11-14 Kobayashi, AN, and Oyama gave poster presentations at the 8th Japanese Society of Nucleic Acid Medicine.
2023.7.5-7 Asano, Yoshida, Fang, and Azuma gave poster presentations at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Japanese RNA Society @ Okinawa.
2023.7.3 Oyama received the Poster Award at CSHL Asia, The Now and Future of RNA Therapeutics!
2023.6.20 An, Oyama presented a paper at CSHL Asia, The Now and Future of RNA Therapeutics, AWAJI, JAPAN.
2023.6.17 Yang and Shen presented a poster at the University of Tokyo Life Science Symposium (BIO UT).
2023.5.30-6.4 At RNA Society 2023@Singapore, Kumiko Ui-Tei, Asano, and Yoshida presented their work.
2023.6.1 A new graduate student joined our group.
2023.5.15 A review article by Kumiko Ui-Tei on recent research trends in siRNA nucleic acid medicine was published in PHARM STAGE.
2023.5.1 A review article by Kobayashi and Kumiko Ui-Tei on the difference between siRNA and miRNA was published in CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE.
2023.2.26. Kobayashi and Kumiko Ui-Tei's review article on siRNA off-target effects was published in "Fundamentals and Development of Basic Technologies for Production Analysis of Nucleic Acid and mRNA
Medicines".
2023.2.16. A paper on CRISPR by Maruyama et al. and Wang et al. was published in Methods in Molecular Biology.
2023.2.10. Asano and Azuma gave a poster presentation at Global Network Forum for Infectious Disease Research 2022 @ Chiba University.
2023.1.18 A review article on siRNA medicine by Kobayashi, Asano, and Kumiko Ui-Tei was accepted for publication in Cardiovascular Medicine.
2023.1.8-12 Kumiko Ui-Tei presented at Gordon Research Conference : RNA Nanotechnology@Ventura, CA, USA.
2022.12.27 Asano presented at Winter Vacation Lecture 2022 Online for High School Students, School of Science, The University of Tokyo.
2022.12.26 Asano received the Best Poster Award at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Immunology!
2022.12.7-9 Asano presented a paper on RNA-binding protein interactions induced by antiviral responses at the Japanese Society for Immunology.
2022.11.30-12.2 Kumiko Ui-Tei, Asano, Yoshida, An, Zhang, Oyama, Azuma, Okubo, Matsui, and Ono presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @ Makuhari Messe.
2022.11.30 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a talk at GTIE Pre-Demo Day.
2022.11.26 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a talk at Alnylam Web Seminar.
2022.11.19 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a talk on siRNA at the Pediatric Lipid Research Group.
2022.10.25-27 Kobayashi and AN presented siRNA at the CBI meeting.
2022.10.17-19 At the RAS initiative symposium held at the NCI/The Advanced Technology Research Facility (ATRF) in Frederick, MD, USA, Kumiko Ui-Tei, Asano, and Kobayashi presented their research on the efficacy of siRNA against KRAS and BRAF and its design. The research was presented at the RAS initiative symposium held at the ATRF.
2022.8.12 A joint study by Nagoya University and An, Kobayashi, and Kumiko Ui-Tei on the efficacy of 2'-modified uridine analogs in siRNAs was accepted for publication in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
2022.7.31-8.3 Kumiko Ui-Tei, Asano, Kobayashi, An, Oyama, and Zou presented their work at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nucleic Acid Medicine.
2022.7.20/21 Asano, Kobayashi, Fang, Yoshida, Zhang, and Azuma gave poster presentations at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese RNA Society.
2022.6.24 A paper by Song, Kobayashi, Asano, Sato, and Kumiko Ui-Tei, et al. showing that siRNAs that specifically suppress the 15-base deletion type BRAF gene inhibit the growth of pancreatic cancer
cells was accepted for publication in Cancers.
2022.6.18 Yoshida presented at the 21st Life Science Symposium of the University of Tokyo.
2022.6.9 Joint research with Chiba University was presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cytokine and Interferon Society.
2022.6.1 Two postgraduates joined our lab members!
2022.5.17 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a lecture on "Conceptual Construction" at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences @ Tsuruoka, Keio University.
2022.5.6.17 Two members who could not come to Japan due to the SARS-CoV-2 joined our lab.
2022.5.2. Kobayashi, Tian, and Kumiko Ui-Tei's paper was accepted as a chapter of this Research Aspects in Biological Science.
2022.4.1 An interview with Kumiko Ui-Tei et al. about siRNA medicine was published in Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
2022.2.25 The paper by Kobayashi and Kumiko Ui-Tei et al. accepted for publication in ACS Omega last December was introduced on the Facebook page of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (https://www.
facebook.com/UTokyo.gsfs/).
2022.2.17 Kumiko Ui-Tei gave a lecture at Novartis Pharma's in-house workshop.
2022.2.7 Kobayashi, Tian, and Kumiko Ui-Tei's paper on random sampling analysis of the effect of thermodynamic energy on off-target effects in base pairing of siRNAs was accepted for publication in Genes.
2022.2.1 "Real-Time Digital PCR Experimental Standard" (Yodosha) was published, in which Asano and Kumiko Ui-Tei's PCR method for evaluating the suppression effect in RNAi by siRNA was included.
2021.12.24 Kobayashi and Kumiko Ui-Tei's joint research with Hiroshima University, which revealed that the seed region of siRNA consists of two functionally distinct domains, was accepted for publication
in ACS Omega.
2021.12.3 Asano and Furukawa presented a poster at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @ Pacifico Yokohama.
2021.12.2 An, Kusakabe, Zhang, Oyama, and Azuma presented a poster at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @ Pacifico Yokohama.
2021.12.1 Kobayashi, Yoshida, and Suzuki gave poster presentations at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @ Pacifico Yokohama.

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