Inauguration Symposium Center for Medical System Innovation

Feb 20th, 2009 Global COE

                            Inauguration Symposium
                Center for Medical System Innovation
    The Inauguration Symposium of the University of Tokyo, Global COE Program ”Center for
    Medical System Innovation” which was established in July 2008 was held at Hongo Campus,
    The University of Tokyo on Friday, February 20, 2009. We aim to facilitate the practical
    integration of a wider knowledge base and ensure our next generation leaders are stimulated to
    provide global ‘best in class’ to lead society.
    We invited not only the students and faculty members attached to this program, but also the
    commercial world; related public sector ministries, as well as the mainstream of related
    academic fields.

Schedule
10:00 ~ 10:30     Welcome Remarks
10:30 ~ 12:40     Research Presentations
12:40 ~ 14:45     Poster Session/ Lunch
15:00 ~ 18:00     Plenary Lectures
18:30 ~ 21:00     Reception

                              Ceremonial Photograph of Inauguration Symposium

- Guests-
Sadanori Okamura
Managing Director / Executive Vice President
The University of Tokyo

Hiroshi Yoshimoto
Director, University Promotion Division, Higher Education Bureau,
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Hiroshi Chimura
Director, Research and Development Division, Health Policy Bureau,
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Masahiro Yoshizaki
Deputy Director-General for IT Strategy, Minister's Secretariat
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Takashi Shoda
President, Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA)

Takashi Wachi
Chairman, The Japan Federation of Medical Devices Associations (JFMDA)

- Plenary Lecturers -
Mauro Ferrari
Professor and Director, The University of Texas Health Science Center /
Professor, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Professor,
Rice University
“Individualizing Medical Therapy through Nanotechnology Rational Design of Multi-Stage Nano Theraputics”

Seok-Hyun Yun
Assistant Professor,
Harvard Medical School
“Biomedical Optics for medical system innovation”

Daan Crommelin
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences,
The Utrecht University
“Collaboration in public-private partnership: the model for the future?”

Charles O'Reilly
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management /
Hank Mckinnell-Pfizer Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research,
Stanford University
“Leadership and Organizational Evolution”

  At welcome remarks, Dr. Okamura, Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo spoke about what is
needed for the University of Tokyo and CAMS project. Mr.Shoda, president of Japan Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association and Mr.Wachi, Chairman of The Japan Federation of Medical Devices Associations
talked about current condition of medicine manufacture and clinical instruments.

                 (Kazunori.Kataoka, Professor and Leader, Center of Medical System Innovation

  After the overview of the CMSI introduced by Prof. .Kataoka, Graduate Schools of Engineering and Medicine /
Leader, Center of Medical System Innovation, Oral presentations were given by Ph.D. candidates from the CMSI.
  The CMSI program aims at the integration of knowledge and experience in an interdisciplinary field involving
medicine, engineering, and pharmaceutical sciences. The inauguration symposium gave us opportunities to know
frontier technologies of other fields as well as what other students were studying. “Functional imaging of gigantic
neuronal networks” presented by Ph.D. student from pharmaceutical science was indeed motivational and it
seemed that not only the students of the same fields but also the students of the other fields such as engineering
and medicine could feel the significance.

- Oral Presentations – Selected from participants of the CMSI
Kazue Mizuno (Nuclear Engineering Research Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering)
Study on Micro-Distribution of Platinum-Containing Polymeric Micelles by X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

Yasutaka Anraku (Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering)
Development and Functional Evaluation of Nano-sized Polyion Complex Vesicles (Nano-PICsomes) for
Biological Carriers
Hidenari Nakayama (Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), Graduate School of Engineering)
Visualization of Chemical Distribution in Multi-Compartment Cell Culture System for Toxicokinetic Study in
Humans
Yu Matsumoto (Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine)
Intranuclear FRET analysis of plasmid DNA decondensation from non-viral gene carriers
Hironori Hojo (Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine)
Development of high-throughput screening system for osteogenic drugs using a cell-based sensor
Akihiro Yamada (Department of Biopharmacy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
The functional importance of organic anion transporting polypeptide 1B3 (OATP1B3) and multidrug
resistanceassociated protein 2 (MRP2) in the docetaxel-induced neutropenia
Takuya Sasaki (Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Functional imaging of gigantic neuronal networks
Asaka Itoh(Ishii) (Pharmaco-Business Innovation, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences )
How Work Group Diversity Affects Group Performance: A Model Hypothesis to Integrate Both Social
Categorization Theory and Information/Decision-making Theory”

                      Research Presentation Kazue Mizuno, Ph.D. candidate, Engineering

Research Presentation Yu Matsumoto, Ph.D. candidate, Medicine

  The Poster session was held after the oral presentations by the CMSI research assistant students and it was a
great opportunity for all the CMSI students to discuss each other since it was the first time.

                                                     Poster Session

  The plenary lectures were held after the poster session. Lectures were invited from different fields such as
professor of medical school, science director or professor of business school.
  In the CMSI, the globalized education program is introduced. For example, there was an exchange program
with the Stanford University Graduate School of Business last December. This symposium was conducted only in

English and was invaluable to listen to the presentations done by world top class lectures.
  Professor Ferrari, Texas University, M. D Anderson Cancer Center talked about the front-line of nano-medicine
technologies. Professor Yun, Harvard Medical School talked about optical imaging technologies and Professor
Crommelin, Utrecht University talked about collaboration in public-private partnership. Finally, Professor
O`Reilly, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University taught us what is needed for leadership and
organizational evolution. All presentations were very attractive and especially address by Professor O`Reilly
engaged hearts and minds of the audiences..

                             Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D. (Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)

                              Seok Hyun (Andy) Yun, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)

Daan J.A. Crommelin, Ph.D. (Utrecht University)

                Charles A.O`Reilly, Professor (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)

  At the reception dinner, participants exchanged their ideas and opinions with the professors of the foreign
universities regarding exchange programs as a globalized education prepared for this coming summer. For all of
the students, it was irreplaceable chance to delineate crystal vision of Ph.D. course in the friendly and sociable
atmosphere.
 The preparation and proceedings were helped by many research assistant students. Most of them were Ph.D.

candidates but students of master course gave us hands as well.
  Finally, I am most grateful to teachers and secretaries of the CMSI for their kind advice and cooperation.
  Written by: Suguru Ueno / Photograph: Mayumi Sue