Title list by research areas [The University of Osaka Biomedical R&D Seeds 2026]
- Drugs (Cancer)
- Drugs (Brain and Psychiatry)
- Drugs (Cardiovascular diseases)
- Drugs (Infectious diseases)
- Drugs (Others)
- Medical devices
- Regenerative medicine
Drugs (Cancer)
- Targeted alpha-ray therapy for refractory thyroid cancer (Institute for Radiation Sciences, Associate Professor Tadashi WATABE)
- Development of a new treatment for chemotherapy-resistant triple-negative breast cancer (Department of Advanced Molecular Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Yoshiaki TANIYAMA)
- Innovative alpha therapy targeting PSMA for refractory prostate cancer (Institute for Radiation Sciences, Associate Professor Tadashi WATABE)
Drugs (Brain and Psychiatry)
Drugs (Cardiovascular diseases)
- Development of L862, an Innovative Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment Targeting TRPC3/6 (Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Professor Ryu NAGATA, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Professor Koichiro KUWAHARA)
- Development of novel companion PET diagnostics and therapeutic agents for myocarditis (Department of Medical Biochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor Ken MATSUOKA)
Drugs (Infectious diseases)
Drugs (Others)
- Development of single-molecule imaging-based screening technology for drug discovery (Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Professor Masahiro UEDA)
- Establishment of a new strategy for the treatment of functional restoration in skeletal muscle injury by tissue engineering using osteopontinederived SVVYGLR peptide (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Dentistry, Professor Susumu TANAKA)
- A new anti-inflammatory drug that utilizes the active site of an endogenous NFkB direct inhibitory protein (Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Specially Appointed Associate Professor Kazuki OKAMOTO)
Medical devices
- Development of a new disinfection device using Pernitric acid solution (Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Katsuhisa KITANO)
- Novel diagnostic marker to differentiate urogenital carcinoma by chiral amino acids in body fluids (Department of Urology Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Atsunari KAWASHIMA)
- Development of a robot arm for bone processing (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Takahito FUJIMORI)
- Raman spectroscopic tissue detection for minimally-invasive and precise medicine (Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Associate Professor Yasuaki KUMAMOTO)
- Development of “peptide” pulp capping agent promoting wound healing process of pulp tissue (The University of Osaka Dental Hospital, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Yusuke TAKAHASHI)
- Restoration of Motor and Communication by Wireless Implantable Brain Machine Interfaces (Department of Neurological Diagnosis and Restoration, Graduate School of Medicine, Specially Appointed Professor Masayuki HIRATA)
Regenerative medicine
- Repair of incurable meniscal injuries using an aligned electrospun nanofibrous scaffold (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Guest Professor Kazunori SHIMOMURA)
- Development of oncolytic adenovirus agents composed of human adenovirus type 35 (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor Hiroyuki MIZUGUCHI)
- Development of gene therapy for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Osaka Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor / Lecturer Shuichiro HIGO)
- Development of Liver Assist Device Using Hypoimmunogenic Hepatocyte System (Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Takanori TAKEBE)