The 2nd IROAST&IRCMS Joint Seminar-The 33rd IROAST Seminar was held on August 21, 2018. The seminar was organized by IROAST Vice Director Jun Otani and IRCMS Vice Director Hitoshi Takizawa. Following Vice Director Otani’s opening remarks and IROAST Director Takashi Hiyama’s introduction of his organization, two speakers from each organization gave presentations on their research. They received questions from the participants looking for possibilities of new collaborations between engineering and medicine.

Vice Director Otani IROAST

Director Hiyama IROAST

Vice Director Takizawa IRCMS

Assoc. Prof. Mizuno IRCMS

Prof. Aida IROAST

Assoc. Prof. Higaki IROAST

In the subsequent discussion, the speakers and participants talked about their future plan for medical-technological collaborations. Associate Professor Toshifumi Mukunoki from the Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology gave a talk on his ongoing research project with a research group in medicine as an example of the collaborations. After his talk, the participants divided into four groups by their interests and discussed the possibilities of their collaborations.

Assoc. Prof. Mukunoki

Group Discussion

August 21 (Tue.), 2018: 2nd IROAST&IRCMS Joint Seminar－33rd IROAST Seminar

IROAST will hold the 2nd IROAST&IRCMS Joint Seminar as below. Everyone is welcome. We hope to see you at the seminar.