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Home	(click for the map to KKlab) In response to the progress of bioscience in recent years, growing attention has been paid to the materials, named biomaterials, that interact with a living body or its composition elements like proteins or the cells, and so on. Many of such biomaterials were already put to practical use with the high-tech devices as central materials, such as artificial organs, drug delivery system and biosensors. In addition, the research and development of new biomaterials are actively carried out all around the world, e.g the material whose structures and functions are changed responding to external stimuli (Intelligent materials) or those who are guiding the proliferation and differentiation of the cells ------------by Kazunori Kataoka From 'Biomaterial Engineering' (Publisher, Shokabo) Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo The University of Tokyo, Department of Materials Engineering, Bld.#4 TEL: 03-5841-7138 FAX: 03-5841-7139 What's new 2012. 3.23 Professor Kazunori Kataoka attended the Humboldt Research Awards ceremony. (Details) 2012. 3.22 Our paper entitled "Rational design of smart supramolecular assemblies for gene delivery: chemical challenges in the creation of artificial viruses" has been published on Chemical Society Reviews (Volume 41, Issue 7, 7 April 2012) and selected as an inside cover. (Paper, Inside front cover) 2012. 2.16 Newsletters of NanoBio FIRST are now ready for downloading at the FIRST program website provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). (Details) 2012. 1.25 Professor Kazunori Kataoka awarded the Humboldt Research Award (Awards ceremony to be held on March 23, 2012). (Details) 2012. 1.23 Our collaboration work regarding controlled insulin release using synthetic polymer gel has been published on Angew. Chem. In. Ed. and selected as an inside cover. (Details) 2012. 1.20 Dr. Yu Matsumoto received the Konica Minolta Imaging Science Award 2012. His title is "Intravital Real-Time Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy for In Situ Evaluation of Drug Delivery Systems". 2012. 1.10 Dr. Yasutaka Anraku received the Takagi award at the 21th Inteligent Materials/Systems Symposium. His presentation title is "Development of nano-sized polyion complex polymersome (Nano-PICsomes) for a versatile DDS carrier" (coauthors: Akihiro Kishimura, Kazunori Kataoka). 2011.11.25 Dr. Hitomi Hiruma received the meeting award 2011 at the 32th Congress of Japan Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine (JSLSM). The presentation title is "Validation of PDD and PDT effect of dendrimer porphyrin micelle". 2011.11.24 Associate Professor Keiji Itaka received The Award for Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Biomaterials 2011. The presentation title is "Development of biocompatible nanocarrier for gene delivery and its application for disease treatment". 2011.10.24 Our paper entitled "Accumulation of sub-100 nm polymeric micelles in poorly permeable tumours depends on size" was published in Nature Nanotechnology (Published online: 23 October 2011; doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.166) and the research of the paper was carried in Mainichi Newspaper, Sankei Newspaper, Yomiuri Newspaper etc. (Details) 2011.10. 3 Ms. Huailiang Wu received the Best Presentation Award at the Retreat 2011 (The University of Tokyo Global COE: Center for Medical System Innovation). The presentation title is "Targeting Metastatic Events with Polymeric Micelles". 2011. 9.12 Dr. Yasutaka Anraku received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 63th Divisional Meeting on Colloid and Interface Chemistry. The presentation title is "Development of nano-sized polyion complex polymersome (Nano-PICsomes) for intelligent DDS carrier" (coauthors: Akihiro Kishimura, Kazunori Kataoka). 2011. 8.25 "Message" and "Research" pages are updated. 2011. 6.10 Dr. Miyuki Baba received the Best Presentation Award at the 27th Japan DDS Conference. Her presentation title is "Reducing the Ototoxic Effect of Cisplatin by Micellization" (coauthors: Yu Matsumoto, Horacio Cabral, Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Kazunori Kataoka, Tatsuya Yamasoba). 2011. 4.30 Our paper entitled "In situ quantitative monitoring of polyplexes and polyplex micelles in the blood circulation using intravital real-time confocal laser scanning microscopy" was selected as a cover of Journal of Controlled Release (Volume 151, Issue 2, 30 April 2011). This study was further featured as a cover story. (Paper, Cover Story) 2011. 4.15 Dr. Yu Matsumoto received 5th Panel Exhibition of 'Beauty' in Science Technology, Award for Exellence. His presentation title is "Tumor Drug Delivery". Archives