Takeda Science Foundation
The 23rd Takeda Science Foundation Symposium on Bioscience

  • Date: January 22-23, 2027
  • Knowledge Capital: Congrès Convention Center, Osaka
  • Free admission (Travel and other related expenses are the responsibility of each participant)
  • Registration Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2026
Organizers
Akinobu Matsumoto (Nagoya University)
Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto University)
Hideki Taguchi (Institute of Science Tokyo)
Hiroshi Abe (Nagoya University)

Program

List of Invited Speakers

as of March 19, 2026

  • Hiroshi Abe (Nagoya University, Japan)
  • Reuven Agami (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands)
  • David Baker (University of Washington, U.S.A.)
  • Maria Barna (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
  • Jason W. Chin (Ellison Institute of Technology, U.K.)
  • Matthew David Disney (The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, U.S.A.)
  • Judith Frydman (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
  • Narry V. Kim (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
  • Yi Liu (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, U.S.A.)
  • Akinobu Matsumoto (Nagoya University, Japan)
  • Jesper V. Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Joseph Puglisi (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
  • Davide Ruggero (University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A.)
  • Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University, Canada)
  • Hideki Taguchi (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)
  • Marvin Tanenbaum (Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands)
  • Xiao Wang (MIT, U.S.A.)
  • Jonathan Weissman (Whitehead Institute, U.S.A.)
  • Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Ting Zhu (Westlake University, China)