What's New

2026.3.25

A paper by Wang Long and colleagues on the novel strategy to regulate autoimmune diseases and graft rejection by expanding regulatory B cells was published in PLoS Biology, and a press release has been issued.

Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003681

Press release (Nihon University) (Japanese): https://www.dent.nihon-u.ac.jp/faculty/news/information/1122/

Press release (Institute of Science Tokyo) (Japanese): https://www.isct.ac.jp/ja/news/fgprv35etg1x

2026.1.9-11

The 6th Japan–Taiwan Bilateral Symposium on Protein Phosphatases, for which Prof. Tsubata served as an organizer on the Japanese side, was held in Tainan.

Link: : https://6th-phosphatase.mystrikingly.com/

2025.6.1

Congratulations to former graduate student Dr. Yuki Hitomi on being promoted to Associate Professor at Department of Biometry and Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University

2025.4.1　

Congratulations to former PhD student Dr. Taishi Onodera on being promoted to Laboratory Chief in National Institute of Infectious Disease

2025.2.1

Our research was presented at the Nihon University Web Workshop under the title “Mechanisms for Preventing Autoimmune Diseases.” A 5-minute YouTube video (linked here) provides a clear and accessible synopsis of our findings.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrvJ-mxP1g4

2025.1.1

Congratulations to former PhD student and postdoc Dr. Chisato Wakabayashi on being appointed as Professor at Ohu University School of Pharmacy

2024. 9.1

A paper by Chizuru Akatsu and colleagues on the regulation of CD22 by glycan cis-ligands was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Link to the paper:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2024.103245

2024.5.22

A paper by Chizuru Akatsu and colleagues on the regulation of systemic lupus erythematosus-specific autoantibody production was published in The Journal of Autoimmunity, and a press release has been issued.

Press release: https://www.tmd.ac.jp/press-release/20240522-3/

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2024.103245 

2023.12

Congratulations to former graduate student Dr. Xuexin Li on being appointed to Director at Biomedical Center and Vice Director Department of General Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital in China Medical University

 2023.08

Tsubata's invited review, "The ligand interactions of B cell Siglecs are involved in the prevention of autoimmunity to sialylated self-antigens and in the quality control of signaling-competent B cells," has been published in International Immunology. It can be found here.