Dr. Peter Loskill from Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB at Stuttgart, Germany visited our lab with a graduate student, Oli, and gave a talk in TARA seminar on Aug. 27th. They came to Japan to participate in the 5th TERMIS World Congress in Kyoto. The photos with them have been uploaded to the photo page.

A new paper of our lab members has just been published in Circulation Research online. “Role of Thrombospondin-1 in Mechanotransduction and Development of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm in Mouse and Humans” Yoshito Yamashiro, Bui Quoc Thang, Seung Jae Shin, Caroline Antunes Lino, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Jungsil Kim, Kaori Sugiyama, Chiho Tokunaga, Hiroaki Sakamoto, Motoo Osaka, Elaine C. Davis, Jessica E. Wagenseil, Yuji Hiramatsu, Hiromi Yanagisawa >> Click HERE to read the paper >> Pr

Nguyen Thanh Truc, a student from the International University -Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, stayed at our lab from July 23rd to August 2nd to participate in Summer Research Program 2018 at the University of Tsukuba. Juliano also participated in the same program. We have added photos from the welcome party for Truc and from the program to the photo page.

A TARA seminar will be held as follows. Date: Friday, September 7th, 2018 Time: 17:00-18:00 Venue: Seminar room, 2F, Bldg. A, TARA Center [Map] Speaker: Katja Schenke-Layland, Ph.D. (Director, The Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tübingen, Germany / Professor, Department of Women’s Health, Research Institute for Women’s Health, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany) Subject: “Raman microspectroscopy and its application in regenerative and per

A TARA seminar will be held as follows. Date: Monday, August 27th, 2018 Time: 16:00-17:00 Venue: Seminar room, 2F, Bldg. A, TARA Center [Map] Speaker: Peter Loskill, Ph.D. (Junior Professor, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, Germany / Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Women’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany) Subject: “Merging high-content and higher-throughput screening: Microphysiologic