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Kick-off Meeting for the MCM Program

[K1]Kick-off Meeting for the MCM Program 1

Wed. Jul 8, 2026 1:40 PM - 2:29 PM JST
Wed. Jul 8, 2026 4:40 AM - 5:29 AM UTC

Ito Hall( Ito International Research Center B2)

Chair:Mizuki Yamamoto, Hotaka Kobayashi

1:40 PM - 1:47 PM JST(4:40 AM - 4:47 AM UTC)

[K1-01]Challenges and Solutions in Promoting Drug Discovery in Academia

*Tatsuya Zenkoh¹ (1. The UTOPIA Center, The University of Tokyo (Japan))

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1:47 PM - 1:54 PM JST(4:47 AM - 4:54 AM UTC)

[K1-02]Human B cell responses in vaccination and autoimmune disease

*Takeshi Inoue¹ (1. The UTOPIA Center, The University of Tokyo (Japan))

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1:54 PM - 2:01 PM JST(4:54 AM - 5:01 AM UTC)

[K1-03]Messenger RNA-based Fc-free antibody therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

*Satoshi Uchida¹ (1. Department of Advanced Nanomedical Engineering, Medical Research Laboratory, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo (Japan))

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2:01 PM - 2:08 PM JST(5:01 AM - 5:08 AM UTC)

[K1-04]Development of SARS-CoV-2 entry inhibitors

*Mizuki Yamamoto¹, Yoko Hirayama¹, Jun-ichiro Inoue², Yasushi Kawaguchi^3,1,2, Xuenan Xuan¹ (1. Research Center for Asian Infectious Diseases, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (Japan), 2. The University of Tokyo Pandemic preparedness, Infection and Advanced research center (UTOPIA), The University of Tokyo (Japan), 3. Division of Molecular Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (Japan))

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2:08 PM - 2:15 PM JST(5:08 AM - 5:15 AM UTC)

[K1-05]A platform to monitor mRNA vaccine function with single-molecule imaging

*Hotaka Kobayashi^1,2 (1. IQB, The University of Tokyo (Japan), 2. IAMS, Tokushima University (Japan))

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2:15 PM - 2:22 PM JST(5:15 AM - 5:22 AM UTC)

[K1-06]Paramyxovirus-Based Platforms for Henipavirus Vaccine Development

*YUYING WANG¹, Taishi Onodera², Yuki Kitai¹, Yukiko Akahori¹, Hekai Yang¹, Hiroshi Katoh¹, Akihide Ryo², Katsumi Maenaka³, Takao Hashiguchi⁴, Junki Maruyama⁵, Yoshimasa Takahashi², Makoto Takeda¹ (1. The University of Tokyo (Japan), 2. Japan Institute for Health Security, National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan), 3. Hokkaido University (Japan), 4. Kyoto University (Japan), 5. University of Texas Medical Branch (USA))

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2:22 PM - 2:29 PM JST(5:22 AM - 5:29 AM UTC)

[K1-07]Engineered virus producer cell-based high throughput screening system

*Kio Horinaka¹, Osamu Nureki¹, Feng Zhang² (1. Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo (Japan), 2. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (USA))

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