Organ Twin Technologies -New Trends in Biotech Created by Compact Biological Models- / March 7, 2026 (Sat.) 15:50-16:40

Mr. Hiroto Shobu
Senior Researcher, Food and Healthcare Business Development Unit, Business Development Division, R&D and Commercialization Promotion Center, Dai Nippon Printing Co.

Graduated from Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science in 2002, engaged in research on biomaterials at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (now Tokyo University of Science), and obtained a Ph. Since joining DNP in 2008, he has been engaged in the development of regenerative medicine-related technologies. After working on joint development with Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Osaka University, he has been in his current position since 2022, promoting commercialization of regenerative medicine-related technologies. He also serves as the chairman of the Regenerative Medicine Innovation Forum: Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Promotion Committee.

Mr. Ken Takahashi
Associate Professor, Okayama University

Associate Professor, Department of Systems Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University. D. from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. He was a visiting researcher at the Wyss Institute, Harvard University before assuming his current position. He has been promoting research to reproduce human physiological functions and pathological conditions through the development of organ chips (heart, kidney, BBB, lung, etc.) using human iPS cells and primary cells. In recent years, he has focused on the evaluation of drug efficacy and toxicity, application to personalized medicine, and social implementation of alternative technologies to animal experiments. He launched Physiaura, a start-up company from Okayama University, aiming to create a new trend of biotech through both research and business.

Ms. Kaori Shigetomi (Kuribayashi)
Associate Professor, Hokkaido University Graduate Education Organization

D. (Engineering) from Oxford University, UK in 2004. After working at the University of Tokyo, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (SPD), and as a specially-appointed Associate Professor at the Hokkaido University Organization for the Advancement of Higher Education, he has been Associate Professor at the Hokkaido University Graduate Education Organization since 2023. He specializes in micro/nano engineering.
In 2013, she was the only Asian woman to be selected as one of the "25 Female Robotics Researchers to Watch in the World. She has been highly acclaimed both in Japan and abroad, including receiving the Shiseido Female Researcher Science Grant, speaking at TEDxSapporo, and having her research on "Cellular Origami" published in Nikkei Science. She has served as a committee member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine, and others, and is actively working to link the results of her research to social implementation.

Moderator.

Hiroyuki Takahashi
Director, Knowledge Foundation Research Center, Liverness, Inc.

D. from Yokohama City University in 2009. D. in Science, focusing on creating new research projects between industry and young researchers, including the launch of the "Liberace Research Fund" for young researchers under the age of 40. He is also involved in the creation of new knowledge by combining individual knowledge, technology, and passion for problem solving without being bound by the framework of academia, and in the establishment and operation of a real wet laboratory for knowledge manufacturing.