Developing three-dimensional bone-like tissue for promising bone-regenerative medicine

• Mechanotransduction controls for mesenchymal stem cell clumps to create three-dimensional bone-like tissue that consists of bone matrices, osteoblasts, and osteocytes.
• The world’s first jawbone regenerative medical technology that doesn’t include any artificial material and provides true three-dimensional bone-like tissue.
• Establishment of fundamental technology for a wide range of bone-regenerative medicine.

Treatment of ciliopathy through cholesterol control

• Elucidation of physiological functions of ciliary cholesterol and pathological mechanisms of ciliopathies via dysfunction of ciliary cholesterol
• The target molecules are identified in ciliary cholesterol trafficking
• Infrastructure development for therapeutic drugs against ciliopathies and cancers

Control algorithm that realizes improved production efficiency

• Implemented a new control algorithm as the core of a database. Aim for improved manufacturing efficiency at the production site.

Development of exhaust gas purification catalyst

• Original development of high durability zeolite synthesis technology
• Application for exhaust gas purification catalyst and adsorbent under severe conditions