Award Dr. Kojima received the Poster Award at the CiRA 2023 International Symposium. Congratulations!
Event AMED-KHIDI Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Translational Research in Regenerative Medicine and Genome Editing"(AMED website) was held at Nihonbashi Life Science Building in Tokyo.
Staff Yukie Kumeta joined the lab as technical staff.
Event Rare Disease Consortium Japan (RDCJ) Inaugural Symposium was held at Shonan iPark
Event ISSCR 2023 @Boston
Staff Amgen Scholars Kensho Gendzwill from University of Washington joined Hotta lab
Event 8th Annual meeting of Japanese Society for Genome Editing @Hunabori, Tokyo
Event ASGCT 2023 @Los Angeles
Event Hotta presented at the 31st General Assembly of the Japan Medical Congress
Staff Technical staff Yumi Tsubokura joined the lab.
Staff M.Sci. student Jason Choi joined the lab.
Recruitment We are recruiting a Postdoc, who is interested in the integration of iPS cell therapy and genome editing therapy. Please see the Job advertisement for details.
Event CiRA Internship program is finally back this summer! Please see this page for details. The deadline for foreign students is March 17th.
Award Graduate student Yuto Kita received the Best Poster Award at the JSRM Winter Symposium. Congratulations!
Staff New secretary Yukiko Nakamura joined the lab.
Staff Matthew joined the lab as a postdocoral reseacher.
Event Hotta presented at ISSCR 2022 Workshop on Clinical Translation
Paper Collaboration paper with CiRA Foundation is published in Molecular Therapy—Methods & Clinical Development
Staff Akane enters to the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a master student
Staff Hotta promoted as Associate Professor.
Staff Office Assistant Shimpei Uchiyama joined the lab.
Staff Eman moved to Egypt.
Paper LNP delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 into in vivo skeletal muscle was published in Nature Communications.
Paper Protocol paper of efficient genome editing in iPS cells by utilizing Cas9 RNP and ssODN published in STAR Protocols
Staff Technical staff Yoshie Masuda joined the lab.
Media NHK TV program "Science ZERO" about the CRISPR-Cas9 for winning the Nobel Prize 2020 in Chemistry is now on YouTube
Paper Collaboration paper with Nara Medical University in Regenerative Therapy
Paper Collaboration paper with CiRA Yoshida lab in Stem Cell Reports
Paper Collaboration paper with CiRA Sakurai lab in Cell Reports Medicine
Paper Collaboration paper with CiRA Kaneko lab in Nature Biomedical Engineering
Staff Technical staff Akane Ichiki joined the lab.
Event Uploaded the Hotta lab introductory presentation (Japanese only) on YouTube.
Staff Dr. Kojima was promoted as a Program-specific Assistant Professor.
Paper Kagita, Mandy, Xu, and Peter's paper on Cas9 RNP mediated efficient genome editing is now published in Stem Cell Reports. Congratulations!
Staff Technical staff Kuwabara joined the lab. Bang came back from his military service in Korea.
Event 9th CiRA Retreat 2020 was held on virtual.
Award Kita was selected as a DC2 Research Fellow of the JSPS. Congratulations!
Staff Dr. Eman Taha from Okayama University has joined the lab.
Award The Novel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Drs. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. CRISPR-Cas9 is a groundbreaking tool that has revolutionized life sciences and gene therapy applications, and I am very pleased as a researcher in the same field.
Event Hotta gave a video presentation at the KSSCR 2020 Annual Meeting @Seoul.
Event Hotta gave a web-presentation at the Genome Writers Guild Conference 2020 Virtual
Staff Dr. Yusuke Kojima from Mayo Clinic has joined the lab.
Paper Collaboration paper with Dr. Nishinakamura at Kumamoto University published in J Am Soc Nephrol.
Paper Collaboration paper with CiRA Sakurai lab published in Stem Cell Reports.
Paper Collaboration paper with CiRA Sakurai lab published in Stem Cell Research.
Award Our HLA editing paper was selected for the Best of Cell Stem Cell 2019! Please check here.
Event Hotta gave a web presentation at the 19th JSRM Annual Meeting.
Info The Japanese government has issued a declaration of emergency, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Staff Joseph Lee from the University of Toronto (Canada) join as a master course student.
Staff Yuya moved to Nagoya University and Akihiro entered to Faculty of Medicine, Yamaguchi University.
Award The CRISPR-Cas3 paper with Drs. Mashimo and Takeda was selected for the Top 50 Life and Biological Sciences Articles in Nature Communications.
Paper Peter's paper on NanoMEDIC delivery of CRISPR-Cas9/gRNA is now published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
Paper Yuya's novel CRISPR-Cas3 paper was published in Nature Communications. This was a very fruitful collaboration with Dr. Mashimo at the University of Tokyo and Dr. Takeda at Osaka University.
Award Huaigeng received the Poster Award at the CiRA International Symposium 2019. Congratulations!
Event Hotta presented at SCSS-ISCT Joint Symposium 2019 @Singapore
Paper Huaigeng's Cell Stem Cell paper was published in print today, and the illustration drawn by Misaki Ouchida from the CiRA PR Office was highlighted on the cover!
Staff Bang Uikyu from Korea joined the lab as a Master student, however, he had to take ａ leave from the university for two years to serve for the Korean military. I sincerely hope that the world to be no need for any military forces someday.