Recent Activity
Professor Michio Iwaoka selected as the World Ranking Top 2% Scientists (24 February, 2023)new!
Professor Michio Iwaoka, a director of Institute of Advanced Biosciences, is a worldwide leading scientist in the fields of Organic Chemistry and Protein Science, especially in the study of organic reactions, enzyme mimetics, and drug development. Recently, he ranked in top 2% scientists announced by Stanford University. See https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4.
We moved to new laboratory at the Institute of Advanced Biosciences (24 February, 2023)new!
Professor Michio Iwaoka was appointed as a director of the institute of Advanced Biosciences, Tokai University, since April 2022. Accordingly, our laboratory has moved from Building 17 to the Institute of Advanced Biosciences in June, 2022. We are starting new projects in the new laboratory.
From past activities Since 2003
A New Student from Thailand Joins our Group (3 June, 2022)
Main Group Chemistry (MGC) Webinar on Chalcogen Chemical Biology (19 May, 2022)
A New Series of Selenosugar Molecules has been Synthesized (June, 2021)
Manuscript invitation to “Oxidative Folding of Proteins and Peptides (December, 2020)
Professor Thomas Wirth visited us from Cardiff University (September, 2019)
The 5th Japanese Selenium Meeting was held at Takanawa Campus of Tokai University (July, 2019)
Two-chain folding pathways of insulin has been elucidated clearly (May, 2018)
Professor K. K. Bhasin (Panjab University, India) and his wife visited us and talked about novel imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine based organoselenium compounds (September, 2017)
Selenoinsulin was prepared and found to be long-lasting against degradation by IDE (April, 2017)
The 5th Workshop of Selenium and Sulfur Redox and Catalysis WSeS-5 was held in Shonan campus of Tokai University on 21 May, 2016
5th Workshop of SeS Redox and Catalysis (May, 2016)
A graduate student in the doctor course received a poster award in the 42nd Symposium on Main Group Element Chemistry (December, 2015)
Need Players for Orchestra Performance in Pacifichem 2015 (August, 2015)
Dr. Kenta Arai’s paper was highlighted as a back cover picture in Chemistry an Asian Journal. (November, 2014)
Human type-2 relaxin: A facile synthetic method was developed. (May, 2014)
Our graduate student received Shigeyoshi Matsumae Award 2013.(2013)
Two students received poster awards in the 39th symposium on Main Group Element.(December, 2012)
The First Workshop on the Element Strategy of Life Systems (March, 2012)
Our paper was selected as a very important paper (VIP) in Chemistry A European Journal. (February, 2011)
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI): Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research under a proposed research project). (February, 2010)
JSPS-DST international exchange program, collaborative research (from October, 2008)
The SAAP simulation program is now available for free download (February, 2007)
Importance of single amino acid potentials for protein structures (September, 2006)
A new transformation reaction for the synthesis of selenocysteine derivatives (April, 2006)
Analysis of the S•••O interactions in phospholipase A2 in relation to protein evolution and functions (March, 2006)
"Development of the high-speed simulation technology by using the SAAP Force Field" was adopted for Research and Study Program of Tokai University Education System General Research Organization. (June 30, 2005)
Selected by Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. (July 1, 2004)
SAAP Force Field in progress (May 15, 2004)
Participation to Genome Plaza (December 1, 2003)
