'frontiers2026' symposium on NanoBioEngineering - Day Two
Event details
| Date | 15.01.2026 |
| Hour | 09:00 › 18:00 |
| Speaker | Miscellaneous speakers from EPFL Bioengineering, the University of Tokyo and Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
DAY TWO (click for Day One or Day Three)
of 'frontiers2026', a two-and-a-half-day research symposium on NanoBioEngineering hosted by the EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering (IBI).
'frontiers2026' is held on the EPFL's Lausanne campus on January 14-16, 2026 and is organized jointly with University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and Science Tokyo (ISCT).
>>> funding and support from JSPS Core to Core Center for International Integration of Medical Modalities toward Living Body Modulation is gratefully acknowledged.
of 'frontiers2026', a two-and-a-half-day research symposium on NanoBioEngineering hosted by the EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering (IBI).
'frontiers2026' is held on the EPFL's Lausanne campus on January 14-16, 2026 and is organized jointly with University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and Science Tokyo (ISCT).
>>> funding and support from JSPS Core to Core Center for International Integration of Medical Modalities toward Living Body Modulation is gratefully acknowledged.
PLEASE NOTE:
- please make sure to put up your poster in the SV building
lobby space ahead of the dedicated January 14 session
(16:15-18:00) - ideally during lunch break, or even earlier.
Pins are provided on-site by the organizers.
- REGISTRATION, free of charge, is mandatory. The extended deadline (January 7, 2026, noon) having expired, registrations for ‘frontiers2026’ are now closed, sorry... But if you did sign up in time: see you at the meeting!
- Info for poster contributors:
- please make sure to put up your poster in the SV building
lobby space ahead of the dedicated January 14 session
(16:15-18:00) - ideally during lunch break, or even earlier.
Pins are provided on-site by the organizers.
- note: poster contributions needn't strictly fall in line with
the Symposium's NanoBioEngineering scope.
the Symposium's NanoBioEngineering scope.
- First year EDBB grad students: participation will count toward fulfillment of your seminar attendance requirement.
- To download the full program (pdf, 683 kB) please click here.
PROGRAM (DAY TWO):
Session B - Molecular Engineering
09.00 h Hiroyuki Kagechika, ISCT
Development of Novel Vitamin D Derivatives and Their Application as Rodenticides
09.25 h Sahand Rahi, EPFL
Light-Directed Evolution of Dynamic, Multi-State Proteins
09.50 h Kenichi Yamamoto, ISCT
Synthesis of Peptidomimetics Based on a Chloroalkene Structure and Their Application to Amyloid-Beta Aggregation Inhibitors
10.05 h Makoto Nakakido, UTokyo
Generation and Engineering of Single Domain Antibodies
10.30 h short break
10.50 h Yutaro Miura, ISCT
Development of Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) as HIV Entry Inhibitors
11.05 h Kotaro Ochiai, ISCT
Development of Ferrocene-Based Steroid Hormone Receptor Antagonists
11.20 h Parth Bibekar, EPFL
A Structure Transformer for Molecular Engineering
11.35 h Markus Jeschek, EPFL
DNA Recorders for Data-Driven Engineering of New Enzymes and Biosensors
12.00 h group picture
12.15 h buffet lunch + posters
Session C - Medical Systems & Device Engineering
14.00 h Masashi Ikeuchi, ISCT
Precision Mechanical Medicine - From the Bench to the Clinic
14.25 h Kenji Shimazoe, UTokyo
Recent Development and Prospects of Nuclear Medical Quantum Imaging
14.50 h Hirokazu Kaji, ISCT
Development of Microphysiological Systems for Human Placental Modeling
15.15 h Yoshikazu Nakajima, ISCT
Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework for Next Generation AI
16.00 h Lab Visits
18.00 h End (Day Two)
Practical information
- Informed public
- Registration required
Organizer
- Prof. Nako Nakatsuka, Institute for Neuro-X and Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL
Contact
- Institute of Bioengineering (IBI), Dietrich REINHARD