14 December 2018Dr. Masato Hosokawa (Dementia Research Project) was awarded the 2nd Serika fund for ALS research.

4 December 2018Tomoyuki Miyashita, PhD, (Learning and Memory Project) published a paper on ”Long-term memory encoding engram neurons are established by the transcriptional cycling” in Cell Reports.”

27 November 2018Notice with respect to a license agreement with uniQure and the development of gene therapy encoding a new enzyme, “modified NAGA”, for Fabry disease

5 August 2018Masaki Oba (Diabetic Neuropathy Project) had won the Junior Investigator Poster Award of the 41st annual meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society and the Young Investigator Award of the 28th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Pathophysiology

29 July 2018Shinobu Hirai, Haruo Okado (Neural Development Project) with Koji Hotta（keio University） published a paper on “Developmental roles and evolutionary significance of AMPA-type glutamate receptors” in BioEssays.

25 June 2018Takeru Honda, PhD, (Motor Disorders Project) published a paper on “Tandem Internal Models Execute Motor Learning in the Cerebellum” in PNAS.

19 April 2018Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, PhD, (Neural Network Project) published a paper on “Synaptic communication controls neuronal migration” in Science

17 April 2018Yuichiro Miyaoka, PhD, (Regenerative Medicine Project) published a paper on “New way to enhance precise genome editing via HDR induced by CRISPR/Cas9” in Nucleic Acids Research

8 April 2018Dr.Atsushi Nishida, (Mental Health Promotion Project) published a paper in Journal of Psychiatry Research

23 March 2018Nature Index 2018 Japan announced the tables which show Japan’s leading institutions, our institute ranked first in "life science" field

15 March 2018Miharu Nakanishi（Mental Health Promotion Project and Mental Health and Nursing Research Team）had made a presentation in the Japan-UK Dementia Conference.

6 Feb 2018Hikaru Tsuchiya, PhD, (Laboratory of Protein Metabolism) published a paper on “A novel versatile method for assessing chain length of substrate-attached polyubiquitin chains” in Nature Communications.

23 Jan 2018Dr. Koji Yamano, published a paper on “Elucidation of a new mechanism in which damaged mitochondria are degraded through autophagy machinery” in Elife

11 Jan 2018Masanari Itokawa (CMRC), Mitsuhiro Miyashita (Schizophrenia Research Project) published a paper on “Pyridoxamine: A novel treatment for schizophrenia with enhanced carbonyl stress.” in Psychiatry and clinical neuroscience.