First Author Interviews

Calcium: The Missing Link in Dead Cell Clean-up by Bridging Membrane Domains

In our bodies, hundreds of billions of cells die daily and are cleared by phagocytes. To distingu...

Unveiling a New Mechanism for Maintaining Cholesterol Levels in Cell Membranes

Cholesterol is an essential lipid for human cells. It is abundant in the cell membrane, which sep...

A Novel Framework for Selective CO2 Adsorption in Complex Gas Mixtures

Dr Yifan Gu was a program-specific researcher working in iCeMS Susumu Kitagawa Lab before his cur...

Synthesizing Porous Materials that can Absorb CO2 from CO2

While carbon dioxide is a cause of environmental problems, it is also a carbon resource that exis...

Invigorating Immunotherapy with Epigenetic Modulation

Dr Madhu Malinee was a PhD student at the Graduate School of Medicine of Kyoto University. She wo...

A New Approach to Gene Therapy: Targeting Mitochondrial DNA

iCeMS Sugiyama Lab and Namasivayam Lab are conducting chemical-biological research using pyrrole-...

Releasing Electrons from Nanoparticles to Fight Cancer

Yuya Higashi is working on the development of new radiotherapy methods with the iCeMS Tamanoi lab...

Shedding Light on Cell Death Signals

As new cells are born, old cells that are no longer being used meet their end, and thus maintain ...

“Move the Tear” for Functional Cornea-on-Chip

Dr Rodi Abdalkader is a Program-Specific Assistant Professor at the Kamei lab, iCeMS. He studies ...

Dr Yu is a Research Associate in the Namasivayam lab at iCeMS. His research focuses on advancing small-molecule genetic switch technology for regulation of therapeutically important genes on demand...

　Dr Arnau Carné-Sánchez has uncovered a new methodology to control porosity in amorphous, soft coordination polymers in the form of nanoparticles or gels. This is an important step to making porou...

　Ontogenesis is a developmental process resulting in the final body shape of a multicellular organism. During this process, tissues spatiotemporally and repeatedly deform to adopt the correct shap...

　Andrew Gibbons is a graduate student in the Physics Department at Kyoto University where he studies optical properties of polymer films. Recently Mr. Gibbons and his collaborators have developed ...

Dr. Sanjog S. Nagarkar works on synthesis of melting Coordination Polymers (CPs) and their utilization for clean energy applications. Inspired from natural systems the group successfully developed ...

DNA contains genetic information necessary for constructing RNA, and the RNA acts as a messenger of the information to make functional proteins in cells. Dr. Yousuke Katsuda and his team found a un...

The post doctoral researcher Georgia Kafer and her team found out that a specific chemical modification that happens in DNA helps to repair DNA damage. This finding is hoped to lead to a new way of...