FY2019 Research Reports (International Joint Research Projects)

Completed Projects
ID No．	Principal Investigator	Project Title
K2003	Bruce Conklin	Establishment of a platform for development and evaluation of exon skipping based gene therapy tool by using human iPS cell
K2101	Leyi WEI	In-silico functional analyses of non-coding regions in genome sequence
K3004	Akiko Iwasaki	Recognition of influenza virus by DNA sensors


Ongoing Projects
ID No．	Principal Investigator	Project Title
K1001	Cheng Yusheng	New treatment strategy in acute on chronic liver failure using human iPS cell derived liver organoids
K1002	Joydeep Bhadury	Chimera formation assay with cynomolgus monkey embryos in vitro
K1004	Catherine M. Bollard	Clinical development of cord blood derived virus-specific T cell therapy for cord blood transplant recipients in Japan
K1005	Jonas Larsson	Development of innovative culture method for hematopoietic stem cell expansion
K2001	Heinrich Leonhardt	Molecular mechanisms underlying DNA methylation replication
K2004	Qin Zhihai	Ligustilide inhibits the promotion effect of prostate-cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFS) on endothelial cells
K2005	Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez	Generation of iPS-derived human hepatocytes in rat liver
K2006	Watcharin Loilome	Establishment of drug testing system for a precision medicine in cholangiocarcinoma
K2007	Omar Abdel-Wahab	Analysis of plethora of ASXL functions under physiological and pathological conditions
K2102	Martha Espinosa-Cantellano	Multiple sclerosis: analysis of the T and B cell receptor repertoire in Mexican patients
K3001	Eicke Latz	Identifying subcellular compartments driving Toll-like receptor responses
K3002	Peter B. Ernst	Intratissue cohabitation of commensal bacteria for immunity and symbiosis
K3003	Robert Gifford	Impact of human endogenous retroviruses on virus infections and human diseases
K3005	Xiyun Yan	A nanocaged nanobody display platform for infectious diseases detection and therapy
K3006	Kaixia Mi	Establishment of a model system of co-infection of Mycobacterium and HIV in human monocyte cell lines to study their interactions
K3007	Alhaji N’jai	Surveillance of viruses causing zoonotic infections in Sierra Leone and Brazil
K3008	Hualan Chen	Analysis of the spread and transmissibility of highly pathogenic avian influenza H7N9 viruses exhaled from ferrets
K3009	Anna Katharina (Katja) SIMON	Elucidation of mechanisms involved in tissue specific immunity during infection
K3010	Peter Katsikis	Systems Immunology of human vaccine and immunotherapy