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[2024/3/31]

【Announcement of Change of President of the Board of Directors】
NPO Research Institute of Fucoidan announces that Tetsushi Yuda, former President of NPO Research Institute of Fucoidan, has retired and been appointed as Director as of March 31, 2024, and Toshiya Satoyama has been appointed as President of NPO Research Institute of Fucoidan as of the same date.

[2023/6/6]

Director Tachikawa has been appointed as a visiting professor, Kyushu University Graduate School, starting April 1, 2023. As a research supervisor, he will focus on fucoidan research and educational activities in the Donated Laboratory of Analytical Food Immunoscience.

Daisuke Tachikawa, Director
Doctor, Doctor of Medicine, Food Health Educator
Visiting Professor, Kyushu University Graduate School

[2023/5/16]

Poster presentation at the American Association of Immunologists on May 13.

Here are the poster presentations and the venue.

[2023/3/14]

【Attendance at a meeting of American Association of Immunologists】

The American Association of Immunologists will hold its 106th annual meeting in Washington, DC on May 11 to 15, 2023. We will make poster presentation in the field of Innate Immunity, Infection, and Autoimmunity on 13 May (US time).

Title : Elucidation of regulatory mechanisms in the activation of dendritic cells by combined stimuli with PRR ligands and sulfated polysaccharide fucoidan

(We have been attending this Immunology meeting every year since 2012 to present our research.)

[2021/11/1]

Directer Miyazaki will make poster presentation (Online) at “The 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Immunology”（Submittion number”50″）.

[2021/8/28]

We made a presentation at the 68st Japanese Society For Food Science And Technology Conference on August 28 (held at Online).

[2021/5/12]

We made a poster presentation at a meeting of American Association of Immunologists on May 11.

[2020/5/1]

Abstract of the presentation was published in the supplement of the May issue of The Journal of Immunology (JI), a journal published by the American Society for Immunology.

[2019/7/2]

Director Miyazaki’s research group announced that they have newly elucidated the mechanism of fucoidan immunity enhancement at the Endowed Chair of Laboratory of Bioactive Polysaccharide Analysis, Department of Bioscienceand Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University on July 1st.

[2019/4/1]

“Development and functional evaluation of food materials using strawberry fruit-derived lactic acid bacteria Lactobacillus plantarum AMAOU” by Director Miyazaki has been published in the April 2019 issue of Food processing and ingredients.

[2019/2/1]

“Effective induction of tumor antigen-specific immune responses by a fucoidan-agaricus mix 5 feeding in peptide vaccine-treated mice” written by Director Miyazaki was published in the February issue of New Food Industry.

[2018/9/3]

We made a presentation at the 65st Japanese Society For Food Science And Technology Conference on August 23 (held at Tohoku University Kawauchi Kita Campus).

[2018/5/16]

We made a poster presentation at a meeting of American Association of Immunologists on May 16.

[2018/4/13]

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[2017/12/11]

On December 14, Director Miyazaki will give a poster presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Immunology (at Sendai International Center).

[2017/10/30]

An interview with Director Miyasaki will be broadcast on NHK WORLD “Medical Frontier Special” on November 30 from 16:10.

[2017/10/25]

An interview with Director Miyazaki will be broadcast on NHK WORLD “Medical Frontiers” program from 10:05 a.m. on November 4 (limited to Okinawa area).

[2017/9/21]

An interview of Miyazaki director was televised in NHK WORLD program “Medical Frontiers” on September 16.

[2016/05/30]

We made a poster presentation at a meeting of American Association of Immunologists.

[2016/02/26]

Our website was renewed.

[2015/05/18]

We made a presentation at the 12th Asia Congress of Nutrition on May 16.

[2014/09/01]

We made a presentation at the 61st Japanese Society For Food Science And Technology Conference on August 30 (held at the Nakamura Gakuen University).

[2014/05/10]

We updated information on conference presentations.

[2013/12/25]

An interview of Mr. Miyazaki, President (Currently, Director) was televised in a KBS program (Korean Broadcasting Company) “Shoro Byoshi” on December 18.