Tsubata and Akatsu have been featured in "Japanese Scientists in Science Signaling 2022". Please see here.
Tsubata's review article "Siglec cis-ligands and their roles in the immune system" was published in Glycobiology, a leading international journal in glycobiology. It can be found
here.
Graduate student Huang Yuming won the Excellent Presentation Award at the Kanto Branch Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
Photos can be found here.
The Tokyo Medical and Dental University newsletter, Bloom, featured a study on COVID-19 vaccines in this field (page 3). Please click here to view the article.
A graduation ceremony was held and six students successfully completed their master's degree programs. Please click here to see the graduation ceremony.
Professor Tsubata received the Japan Society for Protein Phosphatase Research Merit Award.
At the 2021 RIMD Research Presentation held on March 8th, two doctoral students received the following awards:
Best Presentation Award: Long Wang, for
"Development of an antibody that expands regulatory B cells, and its application in the treatment of type 1 diabetes, allograft rejection and arthritis"
Bud Award: Huang Yuming, for
"Study on the mechanism of T cell-independent antibody production to bacterial polysaccharides"
A paper by Assistant Professor Chizuru Akatsu on quality control of B lymphocyte differentiation by CD22 and functional recovery of immunodeficient cells was published in Science Signaling, a sister journal of Science.
The press release is here. The paper can be viewed here .
Professor Tsubata's review article "Role of inhibitory B cell co-receptors in B cell self-tolerance to non-protein antigens" has been published in Immunological Reviews.
Immunological Reviews is a long-established review journal in the field of immunology (impact factor 12.988) . You can view the article here .
