Participating in JST Mirai Program Full-scale Research
The JST Mirai Program project “Accelerating Life Science through Robotic Biology” has been selected as a new full-scale research project for FY2020.
Research Overview
- Priority Theme: Realization of common platform systems and devices that create innovative knowledge and products
- Principal Investigator: Koichi Takahashi (Team Leader, BioFunction Science Research Center, RIKEN)
- Research Period: From December 2020 (Exploratory research period: November 2018 - November 2020)
- Details: https://www.jst.go.jp/mirai/jp/program/core/JPMJMI20G7.html
Our Role
As a collaborative research institution, we will provide technical expertise. Specifically, we are responsible for providing an automated protocol optimization system for establishing complex cell culture conditions, adapting the system to experimental robots, and supporting experimental protocol design and data management systems.
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