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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.