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May 28, 2024	An article, Intracellular delivery of plasmid DNA using amphipathic helical cell-penetrating peptides containing dipropylglycine., was published in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (Highlighted Paper selected by Editor-in-Chief. Selected by Featured Article).
Apr. 1, 2024	Mr. Fukuda (D1 student) and Ms. Shinya (M1 student) joined our laboratory.
Feb. 26, 2024	An article, Poly(ethylene Glycol) (PEG)–oligoRNA hybridization to mRNA enables fine-tuned polyplex PEGylation for spleen-targeted mRNA delivery, was published in Small Science.
Feb. 12, 2024	A paper published in ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. was selected as a Supplementary Cover.
Jan. 4, 2024	An article, Oligosarcosine conjugation of arginine-rich peptide improves the intracellular delivery of peptide/pDNA complexes, was published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.
Sep. 16, 2023	Dr. Umeno reveived The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Kanto Branch Award for Young Scientists.
Sep. 1, 2023	Dr. Umeno joined our laboratory.
July 10, 2023	An article, Effect of helicity and hydrophobicity on cell-penetrating ability of arginine-rich peptides, was published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry.
Apr. 1, 2023	Dr. Takemoto (Associate Professor), Ms. Takayama (research assistant), and Mr. Naka (M1 student) joined our laboratory.
Mar. 1, 2023	Dr. Yokoo joined to National Institute of Health Sciences as a researcher.
Mar. 1, 2023	An article, An amphipathic structure of a dipropylglycine-containing helical peptide with sufficient length enables safe and effective intracellular siRNA delivery, was published in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (Highlighted Paper selected by Editor-in-Chief. Selected by Featured Article)
Jan. 1, 2023	Associate Professor Uchida joined to Tokyo Medical and Dental University as a professor.
Jan. 1, 2023	A book on cell-penetrating peptide, edited by Prof. Oba and Dr. Demizu (NIH), was published (Cell-Penetrating Peptides: Design, Development and Applications, Makoto Oba and Yosuke Demizu, Editors, Wiley-VCH-GmbH).
Sep. 7, 2022	Mr. Victor Marx, a exchange student, joined our laboratory.
Apr. 1, 2022	Ms. Horii Nao, a research assistant, joined our laboratory.
Apr. 1, 2022	Ms. Nessa Naseratun, a research scientist, and Ms. Nessa Naseratun, a research assistant, joined our laboratory.
Mar. 3, 2022	Dr. Yokoo received Seiren Award
Nov. 28, 2021	Dr. Yokoo received an award from ENT M Dr. Asano Noboru ＆ Teruko Fund Medical Basic Research Grant
Jun. 4, 2021	A paper published in Organic Letters was selected as a Supplementary Cover.
May. 19, 2021	A paper published in ChemMedChem was selected as a Front Cover.
Dec. 20, 2020	Dr. Uchida explained the development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on several TV programs.
Dec. 4, 2020	Dr. Uchida delivered an invited lecture in 7th COINS Symposium, ~Future Medicine is Comin' to Town~.
Dec. 2, 2020	Ms. Sachi Ibuki, a research assistant, joined our laboratory.
Nov. 17, 2020	Dr. Uchida received the Young Investigator Award from the Nucleic Acids Therapeutics Society of Japan. Title: Functionalizing mRNA through RNA oligomer hybridization for mRNA delivery and vaccine. He will deliver an award lecture at Symposium 2020 of the Nucleic Acids Therapeutics Society of Japan, on Nov. 30, 2020.
Nov. 12, 2020	Dr. Uchida received 1st Abstract Prize at 8th International mRNA Health Conference. Title: mRNA bundling inside polyion complexes for their physical and biological stabilization. Authors: Satoshi Uchida, Kyoko Koji, Naoto Yoshinaga, Yuki Mochida, Taehun Hong, Horacio Cabral.
Oct. 16, 2020	Dr. Uchida delivered an invited lecture in India-Japan Webinar on "Rare Genetic Disorders”, organized by Embassy of India, Tokyo.
Oct. 7, 2020	A review, Nanomedicine-based approaches for mRNA delivery, authored by S. Uchida, et. al., was selected as a cover page in Molecular Pharmaceutics.
Sep. 24, 2020	Dr. Uchida is a guest editor of Special Issue "Delivery Systems of Plasmid DNA and Messenger RNA for Advanced Therapies" in Pharmaceutics.
Sep. 18, 2020	Prof. Oba and Dr. Uchida delivered invited lectures in 69th Symposium on Macromolecules.