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Ikuma Aruga, a second-year master's student, received the Young Investigator Flash Talk Award at the 8th Japan Selenium Research Society and the 13th International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine Post-Conference (Se2025) (November 2, 2025).New!!
At the international conference “Se2025” held in Sendai, Ikuma Aruga gave a poster and oral presentation in English on the synthesis of peptides modeling the active center of thioredoxin reductase, a representative selenium enzyme, and its enzymatic activity. The clarity of his presentation and the impact of his research results were highly praised, leading to […]
A farewell party was held for doctoral student Veronica Ceccucci from University of Perugia and a welcome party for postdoctoral researcher Neha Jain from India (July 21, 2025).New!!
Veronica Ceccucci spent six months in our laboratory researching the antioxidant properties of selenium compounds and returned to Italy on July 29th. In Italy, Veronica will pursue her doctoral degree. We look forward to her continued success. Additionally, Dr. Neha Jain joined our lab as a postdoctoral researcher in July. Neha will be working on […]
Institute for Advanced Biosciences held an "International Mini-Symposium" featuring researchers from University of Perugia (June 3, 2025).New!!
On June 3, Institute for Advanced Biosciences held an international mini-symposium "Frontiers of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research" at Shonan Campus, which was co-hosted by Graduate School of Science and Technology and supported by Micro-Nano Research Center. The symposium featured lectures and discussion on the cutting edge of chemical and pharmaceutical research, including Professor Claudio Santi […]
We conducted joint research at a university in Brazil during summer vacation (29 September, 2023)
Takehiko Ikeda, a master-course student of Graduate School of Science, visited Brazil at The Center of Chemical, Food, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Federal University of Pelotas during this summer vacation and worked in the research on the biological activity assessments of organoselenium compounds that he synthesized in Japan. (For details, see the news of Department […]
A graduate student from Mumbai University joined our group to promote research projects (28 September, 2023)
Mr. Vishal, a graduate student of Mumbai University, came to our group from August 2023 to promote the international joint research project. He is now working on the synthesis of new-type nucleic acid derivatives having a 4-seleno-threose skeleton. “I am enjoying not only the research but also inter-personal interactions with the people in the laboratory”, […]
Professor Michio Iwaoka selected as the World Ranking Top 2% Scientists (24 February, 2023)
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)
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.
