Depertment of Bioengineering
homepage http://www.bioeng.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/details/outline.html
global 30
- Call for applicants to the International Bioengineering Program (IBP, Master's Global 30 Special English Course) managed by the Department of Bioengineering for 2013 Autumn enrollment (Application deadline is Dec 31, 2012)
December 31, 2012 - Symposium on New Technology for cell-based drug assay
Place・Time : Tokyo, Japan,Dec 10, 2012 December 10, 2012Symposium on New Technology for cell-based drug assay
Date : Dec 10, 2012
Place : Tokyo, Japan
Title : Oxygen-permeable honeycomb microwell sheet-based formation and size-dependent functional evaluation of 3D pancreatic β-cell and hepatocyte aggregates
Auther(s) : M. Shinohara, H. Kimura, K. Komori, T. Fujii, Y. Sakai
Presentation style : Oral
Title : In vitro cytotoxicity assay of TiO2 nanoparticles in pulmonary epithelial cells
Auther(s) : K. Iwasawa, A. Tomita, T. Aoyama, Y. Sakai
Presentation style : Poster
Title： Functions and gene expressions of rat hepatocytes under different cultures using oxygen-permeable membranes for drug screening
Auther(s)： W. J Xiao, M. Shinohara, K. Komiri, H. Matsui, T. Osada, Y. Sakai
Presentation style： Poster
- International symposium on "New Technology for cell-based drug assay" is to be held on Dec 10, 2012 at Ichijo-Hall at Hongo campus. December 10, 2012
- Image from Yuan PANG’s publication was selected to be the cover of Biofabrication Volume 4, Number 4, and December 2012. December 1, 2012
- µTAS 2012
Place・Time : Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan,Oct 28-Nov 1, 2012 November 1, 2012µTAS 2012
homepage : http://www.microtas12.org/
Date : Oct 28-Nov 1, 2012
Place : Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan
Title : Fabrication of microchannel network in liver tissue spheroids
Auther(s) : Kojima, N., Takeuchi, S. and Sakai, Y.
Presentation style : Poster
- International Conference on Biofabrication 2012
Place・Time : Manchester, UK, Oct 29-31, 2012 October 31, 2012International Conference on Biofabrication 2012
homepage : https://www.meeting.co.uk/confercare/biofabrication/
Date : Oct 29-31, 2012
Place : Manchester, UK
Title : New 3D scaffold consisting of assembled subunits as culture chambers and an interconnected flow-channel network for liver tissue engineering
Auther(s) : Yuan PANG*, Yohei HORIMOTO, kentaro HARA, Yutaro ITAGAKI, Toshiki NIINO, Yasuyuki SAKAI
Presentation style : Oral
- 1st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cellular & Computational Toxicology
Place・Time : Bethesda, MD, USA, Sept 21, 2012 September 21, 20121st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cellular & Computational Toxicology
Date : Sept 21, 2012
Place : Bethesda, MD, USA
Title : PROBLEMS IN THE INTEGRATED USES OF A CULTURED ALVEOLUS MODELS AND A NUMERICAL SIMULATION TO PREDICT ACCUMULATION/PERMEATION OF TOXIC CHEMICALS IN THE LUNG
Author(s) : Y. Sakai, K. Iwasawa, G. Tanaka, K. Komori, T. Fujii, K. Okuyama, K. Hatanaka, Y. Sakoda, T. Tanaka-Kagawa, H. Jinno
Presentation style : Poster
- 3rd TERMIS World Congress 2012
Place・Time : Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria,Sep 5-8, 2012 September 8, 20123rd TERMIS World Congress 2012
homepage : http://www.wc2012-vienna.org/
Date : Sep 5-8, 2012
Place : Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria
Title : A method for multicellular spheroid engineering
Auther(s) : Kojima, N., Takeuchi, S. and Sakai, Y.
Presentation style : Poster
- Bioengineering department conducts an independent entrance exam.
http://www.bioeng.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/admission/index.html August 31, 2012 - 1st Joint Symposium 2012 on Bridging Cancer Nonotechnology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & University of Tokyo August 13-14, 2012 in Houston. August 14, 2012
Prof. Sakai will give an invited talk on "Self-secreted factors, oxygen and 3D culture in stem/progenitor cell-based tissue engineering ― mES/iPS, liver and pancreatic b-cells ―"
- 化学システム工学専攻入試説明会
2012年5月12日(土)および6月30日(土)
http://www.chemsys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/exam.html June 30, 2012 - 駒場リサーチキャンパス公開2012で展示を行います。
「臓器細胞の培養工学―移植用組織の構築と物質の人体影響評価への利用」、2012年6月1日(金)および2日(土) June 2, 2012 - ICBN 2012
Place・Time : University of California, Berkeley, June 24-27, 2012
Prof.Sakai will give an invited lecture. April 12, 2012 - TERMIS-EU meeting
Place・Time : Vienna, Austria, September 5-8, 2012 April 12, 2012TERMIS-EU meeting
Homepage :
Date : September 5-8, 2012
Place : Vienna, Austria
Title : Proliferation and initial differentiation of mouse iPS cells in various-types of alginate hydrogel microcapsules
Author(s) : I.Horiguchi, M.M.Chowdury, Y.Sakai
Presentation Style : Oral
- ISSCR 10th meeting
Place・Time : Yokohama, Japan, June 13-16, 2012 April 12, 2012ISSCR 10th meeting
Homepage : http://www.isscr.org/meetings/
Date : June 13-16, 2012
Place : Yokohama, Japan
Title : Proliferation, morphology and undifferentiation of murine IPS cell in alginate base microcapsule
Author(s) : I.Horiguchi, M.M.Chowdury, Y.Sakai
Presentation Style : Poster
- 9th World Biomaterial Congress
Place・Time : Chandu, China, June 1-5, 2012 April 12, 20129th World Biomaterial Congress
Homepage : http://www.wbc2012.com/
Date : June 1-5, 2012
Place : Chandu, China
Title : Formation of liver- and pancreas b-cells aggregates with fibroblasts and their organization into thick sheets using oxygen-permeable material
Author(s) : M.Shinohara, M.Udagawa, M.Hamon, K.Komori, N.Kojimaa, H.Kimura, S.Yamaguchi, T.Ushida, T.Nagamune, T.Fujii, Y.Sakai
Presentation Style : Oral
Title : Liver tissue engineering based on perfusion culture of endothelialized rat
hepatocyte aggregates loosely-packed with biodegradable fibers
Author(s) : Y.Pang, K.Montagne, M.Shinohara, K.Komori, Y.Sakai
Presentation Style : Oral
- "Young Scientist Award" presented to Yuan Pang April 1, 2012
Award: "Young Scientist Award" presented to Yuan Pang,
9th World Biomaterials Congress.
Publication: "Liver tissue engineering based on aggregate assembly: efficient formation of endothelialized rat hepatocyte aggregates and their immobilization with biodegradable fibres."
Biofabrication, in press.
- Our alumni, Masaki Nishikawa (PhD), was appointed to Assistant Professor at UCLA April 1, 2012
Our alumni, Masaki Nishikawa (PhD), was appointed to Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. He has been working on stem cell differentiation and somatic cell reprogramming in the Renal Regeneration Laboratory at VAGLAHS/UCLA for four years since he finished his PhD course and he is expected to be continue his research more intensively there.
- Prof.Sakai has been chosen as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.（Feb.20, 2012） February 1, 2012