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♦2011.11.15-16 “Singapore-Japan Joint Forum on Emerging Concepts in Microbiology ” was held at CRC Auditorium, MD11, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.
For more information, please visit at http://www.med.nus.edu.sg/mbio/news_events.html.

For report from RIKEN Reserach this joint forum, please visit at http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/eng/roundup/6922 . NEW!

♦2011.9.23 RIKEN and University Malaya (UM) had signing ceremony at UM campus. Based on this MOU, UM and RIKEN will collaborate in research in the fields of chemistry and material science and students and staff exchanges.

	Signing ceremony at University Malaya

♦2011.9.22 the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) and the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) held an event to commemorate the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between RIKEN and the USM together with the opening of the USM-RIKEN Joint Laboratory for Bioprobe Discovery at the Institute of Research in Molecular Medicine, USM. 

-> For more about RIKEN President’s visits Malaysia and Singapore ,please visit RIKEN website at http://www.riken.go.jp/engn/r-world/topics/110926/index.html  and RIKEN Reserach at http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/eng/roundup/6874  NEW!

	Opening event for the joint laboratory

♦2011.9.20 RIKEN and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) signed General Agreement on academic and research corporation and exchanges. The signing ceremony for the agreement took place at NTU campus in Singapore. After the ceremony, Prof Noyori toured NTU School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences laboratories and met its students. 

	(Left) NTU President Prof. Andersson (Right)RIKEN President Prof. Noyori
	Prof. Noyori and NTU students

♦2011.9.19 8th RIKEN Alumni Singapore Meeting was held at Biopolis.
Guests of Honor of this meeting were Professor Noyori, RIKEN President, and Mrs. Noyori.

♦2011.9.15 A group of students and teachers from Waseda University visited RIKEN Office. Director Kakihara lectured about Singapore and RIKEN’s activity.

♦2011.9.1-2 RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara visited RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science（AICS),Kobe, Japan,the home of the world fastest supercomputer ” K computer “, and RIKEN Harima Institute, Harima, Japan.

♦2011.6.24 RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara attended opening ceremony of RIKEN Beijing Representative Office, RIKEN’s second overseas office, in Beijing, China.->RIKEN strengthens ties with China: Beijing Representative Office and new MOU (Link to RIKEN website)

♦2011.3.31 RIKEN and Singapore’s A*STAR (the Agency for Science, Technology and Research) agreed Extension of Memorandum of Understanding on General Collaboration (MOU), which first concluded in September 2005. Under this MOU, RIKEN and A*STAR intend to collaborate on scientific research, through their various institutes, in science and engineering research as well as life sciences and biotechnology, with a view to making large contributions to these fields and to international society.

♦2011.3.15 A group of students from Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, Japan, led by Prof. Taniguchi, visited RIKEN Office. Director Kakihara lectured about Singapore and its R&D policy activities.

♦ 2011.2.22 RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara was invited as a speaker at a seminar organised by Jiji Press Singapore held at Four Seasons Hotel Singapore. He lectured about RIKEN and Singapore’s science and technology R&D policy for management personnel of Singapore-based Japanese companies.

♦2010.12.30 RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara was invited to a lunch meeting as one of guests organized by Japan’s Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Banri Kaieda who was in official visit to Singapore. The guests, consisted of Japanese academia professionals worked in Singapore’s research institutes, told Minister Kaieda about their experiences in Singapore and suggested Japan-Singapore‘s future collaborations in science R&D.

♦2010.9.21 A group of students from Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan, led by Prof. Imakubo, visited RIKEN Office and Biopolis. Director Kakihara lectured about Singapore and its R&D policy activities.

♦2010.8. 30 A group of students and teachers from Waseda University visited RIKEN Office. Director Kakihara lectured about Singapore and RIKEN’s activity.

♦2010.7.26-27 Delegation from RIKEN mainly from Yokohama Institute visited Singapore and held meetings with National Research Foundation (NRF), A*STAR,NUS and NTU for discussing research collaboration.

♦2010.5.5 Senior Vice Minister Masaharu Nakagawa of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT)visited Singapore and organised a meeting with Japanese professionals working in Singapore from both industry and academia to seek their advices on international cooperation and strategy for promoting Japan’s science and technology.This meeting was held at RIKEN Singapore office and Director Kakihara was invited as one of guests.

Mr. Nakagawa:first from left (above left photo)

♦ 2010.3.30 16 members of SAITAMA Tourism Assembly Member League from Japan visited RIKEN Singapore office. Mr. Kakihara lectured about Singapore’s R&D policy and RIKEN’s activity.

♦ 2010.3.11　RIKEN Singapore Director Mr. Kakihara was invited as a speaker at a symposium organised by Kyoto University Innovative Collaboration Center, Japan.He lectured about Singapore’s Biomedical R&D policy.

♦ 2010.3.5 7th RIKEN Alumni Singapore Meeting at RIKEN Singapore Office.

♦2010.1.28 Mr.Hiroyuki Yamamoto,Director,Japan Creative Centre visited Biopolis and RIKEN Office(center in the photo).

♦2010.1.26 The Japanese School, Singapore Changi Campus PTA members visited Biopolis. RIKEN Singapore Office Director Mr. Kakihara as one of lecturers made presentations about introduction of RIKEN as well as Biopolis & Fusionopolis.

♦ 2009.9.18 Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST)President Dr. Koichi Kitagawa visited Biopolis to attend JST Singapore Office’s opening ceremony.RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara had a meeting with Dr. Kitagawa and attended the ceremony.

♦2009.9.7 Prof. Yoshiaki Ito, Deputy Director, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS, Prof. Tanabe and students from Tokyo Institute of Technology Study Group visited RIKEN Singapore Office.

♦2009.8.25 Lecturer,staff and students from Waseda University, Japan, visited RIKEN Singapore Office and had a lecture from Director Kakihara on RIKEN and Singapore’s R&D activity.

♦ 2009.8.3 An undergraduate-based reserach work MESCORP 2008/2010 (Multimedia University Engineering Society Overseas Research Program) team, which is initiated by Multimedia University’s engineering students, visited RIKEN Singapore Office and interviewed Director Kakihara for their research work during their stay in Singapore.

♦ 2009.6.18-19 RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI) , Laboratory for Cell Signaling Group Director Dr. Takashi SAITO and Laboratory for Lymphocyte Differentiation, Group Director Dr. Tomohiro KUROSAKI was invited as a speaker at SIgN-IFReC Joint Symposiumheld at Biopolis, Singapore.

♦ 2009.5.20 RIKEN-National University of Singapore(NUS)-Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Joint Seminar: Frontier of Chemical and Material Sciences was held at NTU,Singapore.

♦ 2009.5.19 6th RIKEN Alumni Singapore Meeting was held at Biopolis.

♦ 2009.5.18-19 RIKEN-A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)Joint Symposium 2009 was held at Biopolis,Singapore.RIKEN Advance Science Institute(ASI)and the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) of A*STAR co-organised a 2 day joint symposium.

The sessions included; Physical Materials and Devices Photonics and Nano-Optics Synthesis and Catalysis Biomaterials and Devices

->Report on RIKEN-A*STAR Joint Symposium 2009 : RIKEN Research English journal 17 July 2009

♦2008.11.30 RIKEN and University of Science,Malaysia(Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

->RIKEN President Noyori visits Malaysia (Link to “RIKEN Research”) ->RIKEN Research English journal 29 Feb 2008 : Postcards from Dr. Kumara Sudesh(Senior Lecturer, Universiti Sains Malaysia)

♦ 2008.11.28 5th RIKEN Alumni Singapore Meeting was held at RIKEN Singapore office.

♦2008.11.5 RIKEN Advance Science Institute(ASI) Deputy Director Prof Yoshihito OSADA, Computational Astrophysics Laboratory Dr.Toshiaki IITAKAand former RIKEN Computational Science Div. scientist and Tohoku University(Japan) Prof Fabio PICHIERRI participated in AsiaNANO 2008(2008.11.3-7) held at Biopolis and visited RIKEN Singapore.

♦2008.10.17 RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara attended Opening Ceremony of Fusionopolis,Singapore’s second major R&D hub in 5 years after Biopolis.

Fusionopolis (phase 1) (Photo courtecy of JTC)

♦2008.10.10-11 RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara was invited to be a speaker of “The 3rd Nagasaki Symposium on Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases & the 9th Nagasaki-Singapore Medical Symposiums ” organised by Institute of Tropical Medicine-Nagasaki University in Nagasaki city, Japan.

♦2008.9.19 RIKEN’s Global Relations Office (GRO) Director Mr. Yutani visited the Agency for Science, Technology and Research(A*STAR), National Unibersity of Singapore (NUS)and Nanyang Technological University(NTU) to discuss collaboration between RIKEN and the institutes.

♦ 2008.9.3-4 The NUS Cancer Research Centre of Excellence’s Director Professor Daniel G. Tenen and Deputy Director Professor Yoshiaki Ito visited RIKEN Kobe Institute and RIKEN Yokohama Institute.

♦ 2008.7.28 The 3rd Medicinal Chemistry Symposium on “Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology” was held at National University of Singapore (NUS).
It was attended by over 80 participants from 6 institutions. 2 of invited speakers ware Chemical Biology Research Group Leader Dr Hiroyuki Osadaand Chemical Genetics Laboratory chief Scientist Dr Minoru Yoshida from RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI).

->NUS e-newsletter on 3rd Medical Chemistry Symposium

♦2008.7.25 RIKEN Singapore Director Kakihara, Scientists from RIKEN Advanced Science Research Institute (ASI)and Officers from RIKEN’s Global Relation Office (GRO) visited University of Science, Malaysia(Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM)to discuss collaboration between RIKEN and USM.

♦ 2008.7.17 4th RIKEN Alumni Singapore Meeting was held at RIKEN Singapore Office.

♦ 2008.7.16-17 Delegates of Scientists from RIKEN Advanced Science Institute(ASI) visited Institutes and Laboratories of A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) .

♦ 2008.5.12 Singapore A*STARChairman Mr. LIM Chuan Poh and A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Executive Director Prof. CHONG Tow Chong visited RIKEN Advanced Science Institute(ASI), Wako, Japan.

Front row from left to right : RIKEN Executive Director Dr. Doi, RIKEN President Dr. Noyori,A*STAR Chairman Mr. Lim and A*STAR SERC Executive Director Prof. Chong

♦ 2008.4.15 Mr. Kakihara, Director of RIKEN Singapore Representative Office, was a panelist to discuss on “How Asian nonprofits organizations can help your company innovate and accelerate biotherapeutics development.” chaired by Dr Andre Wan, Deputy Executive Director, ASTAR, at BioTherapeutics Asia 2008 (14th-17th April) held at Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore.

♦2008.1.10-11 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2001), RIKEN President Professor Ryoji Noyori was at Biopolis in Singapore to be a guest speaker and panelist for Molecular Frontiers Symposium/Forum 2008.

♦ 2007.11.24-28 The fourth ARBS meeting on Reproductive Biotechnology, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine was held in Singapore on November 24-26, 2007, followed by a two-day post-conference scientific excursion. The meeting was co-hosted by the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe, Japan) and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). For details, visit official website: http://www.cdb.riken.jp/arb/index.html

♦ 2007.10.17 2nd “BioNet”, Medical Seminar & Networking meeting was held at RIKEN Singapore Office, Singapore.

♦2007.8.8-19 RIKEN was invited to join National Science and Technology Fair 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand.The fair’s main theme was “Sustainable Energy”.RIKEN’s booth featured physiological active substances derived from Nomura’s jellyfish, bioenergy resource research using analysis of termite ecosystems, biobased polymer research of bacteria and plants, and plant bleeding using baryon beam.

->Related report from RIKEN Research (Please scroll down to the bottom of the page)

Photo at RIKEN’s booth: Dr.Pinsurang (She studied at RIKEN) and her students from Kasetsart University,Bangkok. They helped RIKEN as translators. Mr.Kakihara, Director of RIKEN Singapore (center)

♦2007.7.30 Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, has been selected to be the second RIKEN Honorary Fellow. The fellowship program aims to motivate RIKEN’s researchers and to improve its international character. The ceremony was held at RIKEN, Japan (photo). For more ,please read a special feature report from RIKEN Research .

In the ceremony: (Right) Prof. Noyori, President of RIKEN, (Left) Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia

♦ 2007.5.28 Press Conference in Singapore: RIKEN’s Genome Exploration Research Group of Genome Science Centre (GSC) (currently Omics Science Center), Director Dr. Yoshihide HAYASHIZAKI, in collaboration with National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University Hospital,Singapore (NUH) has launched a feasibility study on the clinical application of SMAP for point-of-care diagnosis of drug efficacy.
->RIKEN Press Release (in Japanese)

->Article from RIKEN Research


♦ 2007.5.18-19 RIKEN - School of Biological Sciences (SBS) of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Joint Workshop
“From Genomics Toward Genomic Medicine” was held at NTU campus, Singapore.

Speakers from RIKEN & NTU

♦ 2007.5.16 2nd RIKEN Alumni Singapore Meeting at the networking dinner at Biopolis,Singapore.

♦ 2007.5.16-17 RIKEN - A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)Joint Symposium on Immunology & Developmental Biology was held at Biopolis,Singapore.

-> Related news from RIKEN Research

From left to right: A*STAR Chairman Mr. Lim Chuan Poh, RIKEN Executive Director Dr. Kenji Takeda, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology Director Dr. Masaru Taniguchi

♦ 2007.5.14-15 A*STAR-Noyori Forum Joint Symposium on Organic Chemistry was held at Biopolis, Singapore.

RIKEN President Prof. Noyori(3rd from right), A*STAR Chairman Mr. Lim Chuan Poh(3rd from left)

RIKEN President Prof. Noyori at RIKEN Singapore Office

♦ 2007.4.24 1st BioNet, Medical Seminar & Networking meeting was held at RIKEN Singapore Office, Singapore.

♦ 2006.12.15 RIKEN and the Government of India agree to Promote Collaboration in Science and Technology. Prime Ministers Singh and Abe issue a joint statement emphasizing cooperation between RIKEN and the Department of Science and Technology
->RIKEN Press Release

♦ 2006.7.27 Lecture @ Biopolis: Dr. Makoto Taiji , Team Leader of RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC) (currently Group Director of Computational Systems Biology Research Group, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute) gave a talk on Molecular dynamics Simulations of Proteins with a Petaflops Special-Purpose Computer.

♦ 2006.7.24 Lecture @ Biopolis: Dr. Mariko Hatakeyama, Team Leader of RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC) ( currently Team Leader of Cellular Systems Modelling Team, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute) gave a talk on Model-based analyses of RTK-signal transduction pathways in breast cancer cells.

♦ 2006.4.21 RIKEN’s first overseas representative office,RIKEN Singapore Representative Office was opened at Biopolis,Sinagpore.
-> RIKEN Press Release

Left to right: Mr. Kakihara, Mr. Yeo(Chairman ofA*STAR), and Dr. Takeda (RIKEN Executive Director ), on the tour of RIKEN Singapore Representative Office.

♦ 2005.5.16 Memorandum of Understanding on General Collaboration on life sciences and biotechnology between RIKEN and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
-> RIKEN Press Release

(left) Prof. Noyori, President of RIKEN, (right) Mr. Yeo, Chairman of A*STAR

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