News Archive

2025

• STINT offers a webinar and report on public research and innovation funders in Japan, March 11. 
  Dr Laura Barbieri, postdoctoral researcher for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and STINT Affiliated Analyst in Japan, will guide you through a recently published STINT Outlook report on navigating Japan’s public research funding system. The aim is to provide Swedish higher education institutions and potential future researchers in Japan with essential insights into the national current R&D trends and the public sector’s strategies for research and innovation.

2024

• Professor Shoji Takeuchi, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, gave a seminar at KI September 5. Title: “Biohybrid Innovation in Sensing, Food, and Robotics”. Supported by AMED ASPIRE grant
   
• August 27, we were honored by a visit of the UTokyo President Fujii who spent and afternoon discussing with scientists connected to the LINK program.
   
• Dr Yukie Kashima, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, expert in single-cell RNA-seq and spatial omics, arrived at KI first of August. During the coming year, she will develop already initiated KI collaborations, and aims to start new collaborative investigations within virology, infectious disease, and immunology. Supported by AMED ASPIRE grant.
   
• Two KI PhD students, involved in KI-UTokyo collaborative projects, successfully completed their first 6 months stay in the co-supervisors’ labs at UTokyo during spring 2024. Supported by AMED ASPIRE grant and IQB research fund.
   
• New UTokyo-KI LINK-initiated recruitments! 
  • Dr Raku Saito was recruited a postdoc to the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, UTokyo in April to work on a KI-UTokyo collaborative project. Supported by AMED ASPIRE grant.
  • Dr Donald Cameron, who just completed his postdoc at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, KI, will start as Assistant Professor at the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, UTokyo in October. Supported by MEXT organizational development expenses.
  • Dr Yusuke Sakai has been recruited as Lecturer at the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, the University of Tokyo. From November onwards, Dr Sakai will be active at KI and affiliated to the Björn Högberg team at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics. Supported by MEXT organizational development expenses.
• Exploring Research Spaces and Cultural Exchange: Insights from a Karolinska Institutet Visit
   
• UTokyo-KI LINK researchers publish new findings on chromosome organization in Molecular Cell. Link to publication.
   
• UTokyo-KI LINK has been awarded the international collaborative research program ASPIRE- A grant from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). Link to decision.
   

2023

• The UTokyo-KI LINK programme inaugurated in Tokyo
   
• A doctoral course in Bioinformatics analysis and visualization of medical genomics data which involved students and teachers from both universities was successfully completed in March 2023. The course was offered in hybrid format using digital platforms and a one-week onsite module at the University of Tokyo.