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Oct. 30, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the Saitama Cancer Center.
Oct. 30, 2026: Atsuya Ishida's research project has been selected for the FY2026 JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up!
Oct. 30, 2026: Our research findings, with Ryoichi Maenosono as the first author, have been published in Clinical Cancer Research! Please see the press release for details.
Oct. 24, 2026: Takuya Tsujino received the Young Oncologist Award at the 64th JSCO Annual Meeting!
Oct. 24, 2026: Takuya Izumi delivered an oral talk at the 64th JSCO Annual Meeting!
Oct. 22, 2026: Miyu Azuma delivered an oral talk at the 64th JSCO Annual Meeting!
Oct. 22, 2026: Ryoichi Maenosono delivered an oral talk at the 64th JSCO Annual Meeting!
Oct. 22, 2026: Takuya Tsujino delivered an oral talk at the 64th JSCO Annual Meeting!
Oct. 20, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the C8 Tokyo 2026 Symposium.
Oct. 17, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi gave an invited lecture at the University of Tokyo Education and Research Seminar.
Oct. 16, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi delivered a lecture as part of the Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences Special Lecture series at the Graduate School of Hoshi University.
Oct. 16, 2026: Takuya Tsujino received the Best Presentation Award at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Central Japan Section of the Japanese Urological Association!
Oct. 10, 2026: A preprint of our latest research, “NECTIN4 defines a subtype-dependent tumor state coupling enfortumab vedotin targetability to antitumor immunity in bladder cancer,” has been released!
Oct. 2, 2026: Kazuki Okuyama’s project, “Identification and validation platform development for tumor-specific Dark Transcript–derived cell-surface targets,” has been selected for AMED P-PROMOTE!
Sep. 30, 2026: Three members of our lab have been selected as JSPS Research Fellows (DC) for the next academic year!!
Sep. 27, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi participated as a delegate in the APAC Health Summit in Singapore.
Sep. 26, 2026: Takuya Tsujino delivered an oral talk at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 26, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi chaired a symposium at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting.
Sep. 26, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi chaired an educational lecture at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting.
Sep. 25, 2026: Moritoshi Sakamoto presented a poster at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 25, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting.
Sep. 25, 2026: Masahiko Ajiro delivered an oral talk at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 25, 2026: Takuya Izumi delivered an oral talk at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 24, 2026: Kei Nishimori delivered an oral talk at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 24, 2026: Yoko Suzuki delivered an oral talk at the 85th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 16, 2026: We are pleased to welcome a new technician to our laboratory: Junko Nishida!
Sep. 14, 2026: Our first-year PhD student, Kensuke Hirosuna, has published a paper in Cancer Science. Congratulations!!
Sep. 10, 2026: A review article entitled “Splicing modulation as an emerging therapeutic strategy in cancer: molecular mechanisms, clinical development, and future perspectives,” authored by Xinbate Jingele, Qinxinru Sun, Xiaoyang Li, Xinyu Li, Xuerui Tao, and Akihide Yoshimi, has been published in JJCO!
Sep. 10, 2026: An editorial for the review series, written by Akihide Yoshimi as Guest Editor, has been published in JJCO.
Sep. 7, 2026: We are pleased to welcome a new technician to our laboratory: Mayumi Endo!
Sep. 4, 2026: Takuya Tsujino gave a poster presentation at the KSMO2026!
Sep. 4, 2026: Moritoshi Sakamoto gave a poster presentation at the KSMO2026!
Sep. 3, 2026: Takuya Tsujino delivered a talk at the KSMO2026!
Sep. 3, 2026: Miyu Azuma participated in the Young Researcher Support Technical Workshop!
Sep. 1, 2026: We are pleased to welcome a new graduate student to our laboratory: Ami Nishijima!
Aug. 13, 2026: The results of our collaborative research with Kyorin University have been published in Angiogenesis!
Participants from our laboratory: Atsuro Oishi, Takuya Izumi, and Akihide Yoshimi.
Jul. 31, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi gave an invited lecture at the International Association for Advancement of Oncology (IAAO) 2026.
Jul. 22, 2026: Our research findings, with Takuya Tsujino as the first author, have been published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (STTT)! Please see the press release for details.
Jul. 18, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi gave an invited lecture at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Laboratory Medicine.
Jul. 16, 2026: We have started recruiting for a Research Scientist position (fixed-term, full-time staff). Please see the link for details.
Jul. 10, 2026: Takuya Tsujino has been selected for a KSMO 2026 Travel Grant! Congratulations!!
Jul. 10, 2026: Moritoshi Sakamoto has been selected for a KSMO 2026 Travel Grant!
Congratulations!!
Jul. 7, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi’s project titled 'Development of an mRNA Cancer Vaccine Targeting Dual-Specific Phantom Splice Neoantigens' has been selected for the AMED Project for Regenerative/Cell Medicine and Gene Therapies.
Jun. 11, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Strategies for Cancer Research and Therapy.
Jun. 11, 2026: A preprint describing our latest research findings -A positional and combinatorial regulatory code for alternative splicing- has been posted.
Jun. 9, 2026: The article ‘Expanding Horizons in the Development of Cancer Nucleic Acid Therapeutics’ authored by Atsuya Ishida and Akihide Yoshimi, has been published in Jikken Igaku!
May 15, 2026: Wulipan Fulati and Mina Yoshida gave poster presentations at the JSH International Symposium!
Apr. 30, 2026: Kei Nishimori’s work from his previous position has been published in Nucleic Acids Research!
Apr. 24, 2026: Ryoichi Maenosono has won the Urological Association Annual Meeting Award!!
Apr. 17, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the 115th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pathology.
Apr. 9, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the 6th New Wave.
Apr. 6, 2026: The results of our collaborative research with Dr. Hiroto Oguchi’s group at Kumamoto University, as well as Masahiko Ajiro and Akihide Yoshimi, have been published in Blood Advances!
Apr. 1, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi’s project, “Redefining cancer biology based on atypical transcripts and its application to precision medicine,” has been awarded a JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).
Apr. 1, 2026: We are pleased to welcome new graduate students to our laboratory:
Kaori Kondo, Kensuke Hirosuna, Masako Hashimoto, Kexin He, Song Yuqian, and Katsunori Saito!
Apr. 1, 2026: We are pleased to welcome new members to our laboratory:
Dr. Kazuki Okuyama (Senior Researcher), Dr. Kei Nishimori and Dr. Atsuya Ishida (Project Researchers), and Dr. Takuya Tsujino (Visiting Researcher)!
Apr. 1, 2026: We are delighted to share that Dr. Tomoya Muto has started his independent lab at Chiba University!
Mar. 28, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the AMED USJCMSP Symposium.
Mar. 6, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference Tokyo 2026.
Mar. 5, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi delivered a talk at the NCC&CSI symposium.
Feb. 16, 2026: Yoko Suzuki has joined our lab as a graduate student!
Feb. 6, 2026: Moritoshi Sakamoto delivered an oral presentation at the 35th Molecular and Cellular Urology Research Meeting!
Feb. 5, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi delivered an invited lecture at the Cancer TR Seminar at Kawasaki Medical School.
Feb. 4, 2026: Our review article, “Advances in antisense oligonucleotide treatment for cancer,” authored by Lu Zhu, Pariha Muhtar, and Akihide Yoshimi, has been published in JJCO!
Feb. 4, 2026: The article ‘Frontiers of Cancer Drug Discovery and Development Using ASO × DDS,’ authored by Kaori Kondo, Sakura Inoue, and Akihide Yoshimi, has been published in Clean Technology.
Feb. 4, 2026: Our review article, “The role of splicing factor mutations and therapeutic targeting in hematologic malignancies,” authored by Takuya Izumi and Akihide Yoshimi, has been published in Igaku no Ayumi.
Jan. 31, 2026: Tomoya Muto delivered a talk at the 30th meeting of Hematological malignancy clinical study group!
Jan. 30, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi delivered a talk at the 30th meeting of Hematological malignancy clinical study group.
Jan. 8, 2026: Akihide Yoshimi gave a special graduate lecture at Jichi Medical University.
Jan. 6, 2026: Fu Xinyi and ChaeHyun Lee have joined our lab as postgraduate international research students!
Nov. 5, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the 1st Asia RNA Club in Seoul.
Oct. 27, 2025: Wang Xueyan and Wulipan Fulati have joined our lab as postgraduate international research students!
Oct. 22, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi’s project, “Social Implementation of Novel Target Cancer mRNA Vaccine,” has been selected for the Seed Acceleration Program (NCC SAP).
Oct. 20, 2025: Miyu Azuma and Nanami Yamano, who joined us for their training, have published a review article in the Japanese Journal of Clinical Hematology!
Oct. 16, 2025: Masahiko Ajiro gave an invited lecture at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cancer Therapy!
Oct. 16, 2025: Ryoichi Maezono @r_maenosono received the Young Oncologist Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cancer Therapy!
Oct. 14, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the MM Tour: Tokyo.
Oct. 11, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi delivered an educational lecture at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hematology.
Oct. 11, 2025: Tomoya Muto gave an oral presentation at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hematology!
Oct. 6, 2025: Our lab website has reached over 50,000 page views! Thank you all for your interest and support!
Oct. 5, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi received the Growth Vision Award at the JST FOREST Panel meeting!
Sep. 30, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the Tsuruoka Conference 2025.
Sep. 26, 2025: Asuka Kawachi gave an oral presentation at the 84th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 26, 2025: Kensuke Hirosuna delivered an oral talk at the 84th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 26, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi was invited to speak at the 84th JCA Annual Meeting.
Sep. 26, 2025: Masahiko Ajiro gave an oral presentation at the 84th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 26, 2025: Moritoshi Sakamoto presented a poster at the 84th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 25, 2025: Tomoya Muto gave an invited lecture at the 84th JCA Annual Meeting!
Sep. 17, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi gave an invited lecture at the C8 - Allan Slaight Breakthrough Forum in Toronto.
Sep. 6, 2025: Our collaborative research with Dr. Kamiya and Dr. Iwama’s group at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, has been published in Blood Cancer Discovery!
Sep. 6, 2025: Asuka Kawachi gave an invited talk at the third Universe Research Meeting.
Aug. 26, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi gave an invited lecture at the 1st NCC Science Day: Beyond the Genome.
Aug. 22, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi gave an invited lecture at the 1st Ewing Sarcoma Seed Discovery Seminar.
Aug. 21, 2025: Mina Yoshida presented a poster at Eukaryotic mRNA Processing 2025 in New York!
Jul. 31, 2025: Nanami Yamano, a medical student from Hiroshima University who participated in a 4-month clinical training program, received the Excellence Award at the Research Presentation!
Jul. 25, 2025: Tomoya Muto's project has been accepted for JST FOREST!
Jul. 22, 2025: Our collaborative research with Dr. Takumi Kitamoto’s group at Chiba University has been published in Diabetes!
Jul. 15, 2025: Our collaborative research with Dr Kunimoto and colleagues at Yokohama City University has been published in HemaSphere!
Jul. 8, 2025: Mina Yoshida gave an oral talk at the RNA2025 in Sendai!
Jul. 4, 2025: Akihide Yoshimi gave an invited lecture at the 15AGW (15th International Workshop on Advanced Genomics) .
Jul. 2, 2025: Congrats to Hirotaka Matsui― his paper just came out in Scientific Reports.