Symposium of AMED SCARDA Japan Initiative for World-leading Vaccine Research and Development Centers

*Risa Takahashi^1,2, Meito Shibuya^1,2,3, Tomoyuki Yamanoue^1,2, Tomonori Machita^1,2, Fujimi Arai^1,2, Satomi Takahashi^1,2, Hiroshi Kiyono^1,2,4,5,6,7, Kohtaro Fujihashi^1,2,7,8,9 (1. Department of Human Mucosal Vaccinology, Chiba University Hospital (Japan), 2. Synergy Institute for Futuristic Mucosal Vaccine Research and Development (cSIMVa), Chiba University (Japan), 3. Vaccine R&D Laboratory, Vaccine Business Division, Shionogi & Co., Ltd (Japan), 4. Future Medicine Education and Research Organization, Chiba University (Japan), 5. Department of Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego (USA), 6. CU-UCSD Center for Mucosal Immunology, Allergy and Vaccines (cMAV), UC San Diego School of Medicine (USA), 7. Division of Infectious Disease Vaccine R&D, Research Institute of Disaster Medicine, Chiba University (Japan), 8. Division of Mucosal Vaccines, International Vaccince Design Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (Japan), 9. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA))

*Mei Hashizume¹, Keiko Shindo^1,2, Ayako Takashima¹, Igor S. Lukashevich³, Juan C. de la Torre⁴, Masaharu Iwasaki^1,2,5,6 (1. Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, The University of Osaka (Japan), 2. Center for Advanced Modalities and Drug Delivery System, The University of Osaka (Japan), 3. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville Health Sciences Center (USA), 4. Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research (USA), 5. Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research, The University of Osaka (Japan), 6. RNA Frontier Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, The University of Osaka (Japan))

*Hyolim Kang¹ (1. Nagasaki University (Japan))

*Mahmoud A. Younis^1,2,3, Yusuke Sato^1,2, Hideyoshi Harashima^1,2 (1. Institute of Vaccine Research and Development (IVReD), Hokkaido University (Japan), 2. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University (Japan), 3. Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University (Egypt))

*Shohei Asami¹, Tamotsu Kato¹, Yumiko Nakanishi¹, Ayumi Ito¹, Sayuri Sakakibara¹, Hiroshi Ohno¹ (1. RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (Japan))

*HsienNeng Kao¹ (1. Graduate School of medicine, Department of Immunology, Hokkaido University (Japan))

*Zhongwei Zhang^1,2, Zhaowen Ding^1,2, Shin-ichi Sawada^2,3, Hiroshi Kiyono^2,3,4,5, Yosuke Kurashima^1,2,4,6 (1. Department of Innovative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba (Japan), 2. Chiba University Synergy Institute for Futuristic Mucosal Vaccine Research and Development (cSIMVa), Chiba University, Chiba (Japan), 3. Department of Human Mucosal Vaccinology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba (Japan), 4. Chiba University-University of California San Diego Center for Mucosal Immunology, Allergy and Vaccine (CU-UCSD cMAV), Department of Medicine, School of Medicine,San Diego, CA (USA), 5. Division of Comparative Pathology and Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, CA (USA), 6. Institute for Advanced Academic Research/ Research Institute of Disaster Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba (Japan))

*Hoan Thi Pham¹, Masatomo Morita², Kohei Yamazaki³, Toshihiro Endo⁴, Satoshi Takayama¹, Azusa Hiyoshi¹, Takeshi Haneda⁵, Renée M. Tsolis⁶, Andreas J. Bäumler⁶, Toshio Kodama¹, Hirotaka Hiyoshi¹ (1. Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University (Japan), 2. National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan), 3. School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University (Japan), 4. Phenovance LLC, Chiba (Japan), 5. School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University (Japan), 6. School of Medicine, University of California at Davis (USA))

*Shuhei Higuchi¹, Hisashi Arase^1,2,3,4 (1. Immunochemistry, CAMaD, Osaka University (Japan), 2. Immunochemistry, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University (Japan), 3. Laboratory of Immunochemistry, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University (Japan), 4. Center for Infectious Disease Education and Reasearch, Osaka University (Japan))