About us

Ongoing Joint Research (Japan)

  • Analysis of correlation between therapeutic efficacy of Benralizumab (anti-IL-5 receptor alpha antibody) and the tissue-resident natural killer (NK) cells in the polyps of patients with asthma complicated by eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS)
  • Partner Institution：AstraZeneca
  • Research Period：2018-23
  • Application of mucosal immunity to immunotherapy and vaccine development
  • Partner Institution：The University of Tokyo
  • Research Period：2018-20
  • Establishment of animal models of type I allergy and analysis of its pathogenesis
  • Partner Institution：Torii Pharmaceutical Co., LTD.
  • Research Period：2018-20
  • Production of antibodies against ligand for CD69 and their functional analysis in vivo
  • Partner Institution：Kan Research Institute Inc.
  • Research Period：2013-22
  • Application evaluation of anti-CD69 antibody to steroid-resistant asthma
  • Partner Institution：Gene Frontier Corporation
  • Research Period：2014-20

Ongoing Joint Research (Overseas)

  • Role of Ezh2 in NKT-dependent immune responses
  • Partner Institution：University of South Australia
  • Research Period：2015-
  • Mechanism that minimizes lineage fate errors during MHC-I positive selection in the thymus
  • Partner Institution：National Institute of Health
  • Research Period：2014-
  • Role of different STATs in CD4 T cells
  • Partner Institution：National Institute of Health
  • Research Period：2014-
  • Role of ROG in immune responses
  • Partner Institution：Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Research Period：2014-
  • In vivo microenvironment in immunological memory
  • Partner Institution：Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
  • Research Period：2008-

Past Joint Research

  • The confirmation of physiological effects of lactic acid bacteria strains on immunity
  • Partner Institution：NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CI., LTD.
  • Research Period：2014-15
  • Functional analysis of mammalian polycomb group gene
  • Partner Institution：RIKEN
  • Research Period：2013-18
  • Development research of a novel testing method and test reagents for vasculitis, and of artificial immunoglobulin
  • Partner Institution：A-CLIP Institute
  • Research Period：2012-17