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2025
October 23, 2025
A news article was published
A news article was published by the publisher Science Featured. The title is “Tiny silica particles show surprising promise in stopping tumor growth.” This article clearly reports our discovery of a new generation of nanoparticles for cancer treatment. You can read it by clicking the link below or the image.
20251031_Featured article with author information revised.pdfSeptember 10-11, 2025
A symposium at Tokyo university was held
iCeMS/QNM center and NIMS held the meeting entitled “New developments on nanomedicine and cancer research” at Ito Auditorium, University of Tokyo on September 10-11th, 2025. This symposium brought together researchers from diverse fields to engage in heated discussion on nanomedicine and cancer treatment. The participants included experts in novel nanomaterials, imaging, boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), nuclear medicine, photothermal therapy, cancer immunology and rare cancer models.
You can read the abstracts by clicking the image, but please note that they are written in Japanese.
0905_ナノメディシンとがん研究の新展開_要旨集.pdfMay 14-16, 2025
A symposium at UCLA was held
iCeMS/QNM Center organized a symposium at UCLA entitled "New developments in Biomedical Sciences”. This event was co-organized with Kyoto University International Strategy office, UCLA Dept. of Microbio., Immunol. & Molec Genet, California NanoSystems Institute and Academia Sinica in Taiwan. This was in collaboration with JSPS San Francisco Office and UCLA Japan Center.
You can check the details of the symposium from the link below.
●Kyoto University
https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/2025-06-03-1
●iCeMS
2023
April 10, 2023
UCLA-KU Online seminar series #5 has successfully finished
Dr. Motonari Uesugi and Dr. Jerome Zack gave lectures on their latest research. People from various fields attended and had a lively discussion. Thank you very much for your participation!!
For more information on this seminar, please click here.
2022
September 28, 2022
UCLA-KU Online seminar series #4 has successfully finished
Dr. Peter Bradley and Dr. Jun Suzuki gave a talk on the latest research in molecular biology. People from various fields attended and lively exchange of ideas took place. Thank you for participating!!
For more information on this seminar, please click here.
March 22, 2022
UCLA-KU Online seminar series #3 has successfully finished
Dr. Minoru Takata and Dr. Paul Boutros talked about the latest research on cancer. Many people attended, including students on spring vacation. Lively discussions took place. Thank you for participating!!
For more information on this seminar, please click here.
February 14, 2022
New paper is published!!
We have reported that PIP-Based KRAS inhibitor KR12 exhibits excellent tumor accumulation properties.
[Publication]
Higashi, Y., Ikeda, S., Matsumoto, K., Satoh, S., Komatsu, A., Sugiyama, H. and Tamanoi, F. (2022) Tumor Accumulation of PIP-Based KRAS Inhibitor KR12 Evaluated by the Use of a Simple, Versatile Chicken Egg Tumor Model. Cancers. 2022, 14, 951. doi: 10.3390/cancers14040951
2021
December 1, 2021
UCLA-KU Online seminar series #2 has successfully finished
Dr. Genhong Cheng and Dr. Takao Hashiguchi talked about the latest research on COVID-19. We had more participants than in seminar series #1, and a lively discussion ensued. Thank you for participating!!
September 22, 2021
UCLA-KU Online seminar series #1 has successfully finished
Dr. Caius Radu and Dr. Fuyu Tamanoi gave presentation on their researches. Many participants from various fields gathered and exchanged their views. Thank you for participating!
[Article]
July 16, 2021
Cerebrate signing a global academic partnership with UCLA
Kyoto University signed a global academic partnership with UCLA; activity between Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and UCLA’s Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics (MIMG) in the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) and the College of Life Sciences. We will internationally cooperate in conferences, research projects, and postgraduate education and training.
Please see details from here.
July 14, 2021
New paper is published!!
We try to develop a new radiation therapy based on deeper understanding of the photoelectric effect.
【iCEMs English】https://www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/4273/
【Scientific Reports】
Higashi Y, Matsumoto K, Saitoh H, Shiro A, Ma Y, Laird M, Chinnathambi S, Birault A, Doan TLH, Yasuda R, Tajima T, Kawachi T, Tamanoi F. Iodine containing porous organosilica nanoparticles trigger tumor spheroids destruction upon monochromatic X-ray irradiation: DNA breaks and K-edge energy X-ray. Sci Rep. 2021 Jul 14;11(1):14192. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-93429-9.
March 5, 2021
Newsletter vol.2
We have prepared an English version of the latest newsletter "KAWARABAN" vol.2 which contains the report of the online event held last December. The English version is available from here.
January 5, 2021
Happy New Year!!
The novel coronavirus is still spreading, but we hope to hold events this year, utilizing online as well.
2020
December 11, 2020
Online symposium was held.
The online symposium titled "Coronavirus Infection and Nanomedicine" was held on December 5. Eleven speakers gave lectures, and we had a stimulating discussion on how to approach new coronavirus infections from the perspective of nanotechnology.
Please see details from here.
August 7, 2020
Two papers are published.
玉野井冬彦、松本光太郎、齋藤 寛之、城 鮎美（2020）「単色X 線とナノ粒子を組み合わせた新しいがん治療技術の開発にむけて」, Isotope News, No.770, 2020年8月号, 7-11 , 公益社団法人 日本アイソトープ協会 (only available in Japanese)
Tamanoi F, Matsumoto K, Doan TLH, Shiro A, Saitoh H. Studies on the Exposure of Gadolinium Containing Nanoparticles with Monochromatic X-rays Drive Advances in Radiation Therapy. Nanomaterials. 2020 Jul 9;10(7):1341. DOI: 10.3390/nano10071341
August 4, 2020
The Society of Nano Science and Technology Statement on COVID-19
The Society of Nano Science and Technology, to which Prof. Tamanoi belong, released a statement on COVID-19. Prof. Tamanoi also participated in the process of making the statement. See the statement from here.
April 20, 2020
Newsletter vol.1
We decided to send you newsletters for informing our recent conditions and encouraging other researchers to develop our and their studies. See from here.
March 17, 2020
[Postponed] 2nd QNM symposium
Due to corona virus, we decided to postpone our 2nd symposium. We are very sorry to inform this, but hope you understand the situation and expect the next one.
February 6, 2020
2nd QNM symposium will be held on April 17
Our 2nd QNM symposium will be held on Friday, April 17th! It has been just decided! We hope much more people participate in!
A detail will be announced on this website, our official SNS, or Kyoto University Tamanoi Lab. Website. Please check it out!
January 6, 2020
A Happy New Year!
A Happy New Year!!! How was your new year holidays?
Today is the first day of our work. This year, as well as the last year, we may keep studying in the domain of "quantum nano medicine".
Please keep watching us!
2019
December 13, 2019
1st QNM symposium has successfully finished
We held our first symposium today!
More researchers than expected came, listened to lectures and discussed a lot.
Thank you for coming to our symposium and supporting us!
November 26, 2019
1st QNM symposium will be held on December 13
The program for our symposium on December 13, 2019 has been released!
The flyer is also coming soon! We hope to meet you all there!!
November 14, 2019
We open our website !
Our website has just been activated! Please keep looking at this site to check the progress of our research.
October 5, 2019
The opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of Quantum Nano Medicine Center was held! Our loooong journey for development of quantum nano medicine has just started.
October 1, 2019
QNM center starts our studies actively!
Quantum Nano Medicine Research Center starts our studies actively from TODAY!! The center is expected to have initiative to develop a new academic discipline integrating quantum beams and nanomaterials. Watch the next news!!
July 23, 2019
QNM center has been approved as one of the Kyoto University On-site Labs
UCLA-Onsite Laboratory "Quantum Nano Medicine Research Center" was approved as one of the Kyoto University Onsite Labs recently. See the announcement by Kyoto University (http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/about/events_news/office/kikaku-joho/kikaku/news/2019/190723_1.html ).
This center, one of the onsite labs within the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), will initiate activity on October 1, 2019 and aims to advance a new field of research that emerged from the fusion of physics and medicine.
Professor Tamanoi will coordinate this center activity.
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