
Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)
Oct 1, 2023 | Our new research assistant, Victor Marx, and our new master's student, Naiya Ruzzama, have joined our Lab. |
Sep 1, 2023 | Our new research assistant, Reiko Shiratori, has joined our Lab. |
Aug 30, 2023 | The research about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines based on mRNA has been posted in bioRxiv.
Saed Abbasi, Miki Matsui-Masai, Fumihiko Yasui, Akimasa Hayashi, Theofilus Tockary, Shiro Akinaga, Michinori Kohara, Kazunori Kataoka*, Satoshi Uchida*, Jet injection potentiates naked mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in mice and non-human primates by adding physical stress to the skin, bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.27.530188 |
July 12, 2023 | Research about cancer vaccines based on mRNA engineering, conducted by Prof. Uchida and Ms. Masai, et al. has been published in PNAS, along with a press release on EurekAlert.
Theofilus A. Tockary#, Saed Abbasi#, Miki Matsui-Masai, Akimasa Hayashi, Naoto Yoshinaga, Eger Boonstra, Zheng Wang, Shigeto Fukushima, Kazunori Kataoka*, Satoshi Uchida*, Comb-structured mRNA vaccine tethered with short double-stranded RNA adjuvants maximizes cellular immunity for cancer treatment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2214320120, (2023) |
July 6, 2023 | Prof. Uchida obtained a Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering) as a principal investigator (ref). |
June 26, 2023 | A review authored by Prof. Uchida, Prof. Miyata (the University of Tokyo) has been published in Advanced Drug Delivery Review. Satoshi Uchida*, Chun Yin Jerry Lau, Makoto Oba, Kanjiro Miyata*, Polyplex Designs for Improving the Stability and Safety of RNA Therapeutics, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 199, 114972 (2023) |
June 11, 2023 | Collaborative research on the mRNA vaccine against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, conducted by Prof. Uchida, Prof. Sawa, at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, et al., has been posted as a preprint. Ken Kawaguchi, Mao Kinoshita, Kazuki Sudo, Keita Inoue, Yoshifumi Naito, Makoto Oba, Satoshi Uchida*, Teiji Sawa*, mRNA vaccine induces protective immunity against the type III secretory virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.09.544431 |
May 12, 2023 | Collaborative research with Prof. Uchida and Prof. Abe et al. at Nagoya University has been published in Nature Communications.
M Inagaki, N Abe, Z Li, Y Nakashima, S Acharyya, K Ogawa, D Kawaguchi, H Hiraoka, A Banno, Z Meng, M Tada, T Ishida, P Lyu, K Kokubo, H Murase, F Hashiya, Y Kimura, S Uchida, H Abe,Cap analogs with a hydrophobic photocleavable tag enable facile purification of fully capped mRNA with various cap structures, Nature Communications 14, 2657, (2023) |
April 29, 2023 | Prof. Uchida gave an invited lecture titled "Basics of mRNA Vaccine," at a seminar co-sponsored by Moderna Japan, Co., Ltd. at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases, the 71st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy, Joint Conference. |
April 27, 2023 | Prof. Uchida will give an online presentation titled "Nano-DDS Development for mRNA Vaccines and Drugs" at iSeminar on Wednesday, May 17, at 16:30. Everyone is welcome to join. [Registration] |
April 20, 2023 | We have launched our website. |