Mar. 17, 2011: Open Seminar for researchers and engineers postponed.

【Notification of Postponement】

 We would like to express our sincere sympathy to the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
 After careful consideration of the situation, we have decided to postpone the Open Seminar. Details will be notified on this web site as they are decided in the future.

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 The Tanaka Project of the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program) has organized an Open Seminar to introduce the leading edge of research to related researchers and engineers in order to promote research exchange and accelerate new research.

 At this seminar, Koichi Tanaka, General Manager of the Koichi Tanaka Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology at Shimadzu Corporation, will give an overview of his research. Distinguished lecturers from Japan and overseas will introduce the current state of cancer research in Japan and the United States. We hope for a large attendance.

Tanaka Project — Open Seminar for Researchers and Engineers
Time and Date 14:00 to 16:40 (venue opens 13:30), Friday, March 25, 2011 New date to be decided
Venue 4th Floor, Training Center, Sanjo Works, Head Office of Shimadzu Corporation
(No parking available. Please do not travel by car.)
Cost Free
Number of Participant 200
Languages Japanese and English  *No simultaneous interpreters provided
Sponsored by Koichi Tanaka Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology, Shimadzu Corporation
Lecture Program 14:00-14:20 Koichi Tanaka, General Manager (Koichi Tanaka Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology, Shimadzu Corporation)
 Opening remarks
 Lecture title: About the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program)
14:20-14:50 Prof. Matthew Meyerson(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
 Lecture title: to be decided
14:50-15:20 Prof. Stacey Gabriel(Broad Institute)
 Lecture title: to be decided
15:20-15:50 Prof. Louis M. Staudt
(National Cancer Institute, Metabolism Branch)

 Lecture title: Converging on the Achilles Heel of Cancer Through Functional and Structural Genomics
15:50-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Prof. Hamakubo Takao (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
 Lecture title: Antibody Development for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer and Intractable Diseases
16:30-16:40 Closing remarks
Inquiries Open Seminar Office, Tanaka Project, FIRST Program
Email: seminar@adcom.shimadzu.co.jp