Aiko received a grant from the Uehara Memorial Foundation.

Aiko gave oral and poster presentations in the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology on 12/9-11 in Sendai.

Hiromi, Yoshito and Kaori Participated in the 1st Research Conference on Elastin and Associated Molecules held at Arcadia Ichigaya, Tokyo on 12/2-3. Hiromi and Kaori gave oral presentations, and Yoshito served as a Chair in the session.

Aiko presented her poster at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan on 11/30-12/2 at Yokohama .

Aiko, Gopu, Lal and Kaori participated in the 27th CDB Meeting on 11/14-15 at RIKEN, Kobe. Aiko gave oral and poster presentations titled “Defining the stem cell lineages in the mouse inter-follicular epidermis.”

Biennial Meeting for the American Society for Matrix Biology was held in St. Petersburg, Florida from November 13 to 16 under the theme of “The ECM microenvironment: A regulatory force in aging and disease.” Hiromi attended and served as a council and a program committee member.

Aiko’s paper (Nature Cell Biology, 2016 DOI: 10.3410/f.726360474.793525724) was recommended in F1000Prime.

Aiko received grants from the Leave a Nest, the Naito Foundation, the SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation, and the Nakajima Foundation.