Press release
The 8th COINS Symposium〜 Future Society Created by In-Body Hospitals 〜
 At 1pm on January 21st (FRI), hold the 8th COINS Symposium ONLINE
 Summarizes the achievement of COINS activities over the nine years and draws a further approach toward
an “In-body Hospitals” aiming for realization in 2045.
 Looking back the workshop on issues and solutions of super-aged society with today’s high school students,
who support the society as a middle-aged generation in 2045, and COINS scientists, a round-table talk will
be held from the perspectives of industry, education, nursing, research, and citizen literacy.
 Through online dialogue with audiences, we will be able to reaffirm the direction of research that should beundertaken toward the realization of a Smart Life Care Society.

December 1st, 2021 (Kawasaki, JAPAN): As the core research center in Kawasaki of the "Center of Innovation(COI) Program" of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan Science andTechnology Agency, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion (DirectorGeneral: Kazunori Kataoka, Location: Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki City, JAPAN, Abbreviated name:iCONM) that aims to realize “In-Body Hospitals” by 2045 is organizing the 8th COINS Symposium on January 21,2021. With the end of COI Stream in March next year, this will be the last COINS symposium.
In PART 1, as the COINS Researchers Session, Hiromichi Kimura, Project Leader and Kazunori Kataoka, Research Leader
will summarize the outcomes in nine years from the R&D’s points of the view, its social implementation and constructionof the innovation platform. In addition, we will introduce how COINS's activities have led to social implementation foreach of the following six COINS themes.
Theme 1: Nanomachines which can target and eliminate intractable cancer
Theme 2: An innovative technology for the treatment of cranial nerve diseases
Theme 3: Nanomachines that deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) for tissue reconstruction and nano-sizedvaccine
Theme 4: The system for in-home cancer diagnosis, which requires no blood sampling
Theme 5: Theranostic system, which combines nanomachines and medical equipment ultra-minimally invasive treatment
Theme 6: Social system for implementation of the results into society

In PART 2, the round-table talk entitled " For Realizing the Smart Life Care Society", today’s high school students andCOINS scientists are focusing on the content of prior discussions on issues in the super-aging society and their scientificsolutions from the perspectives of industry, education, nursing, research, and citizen literacy.
The workshop with today’s high school students who will reach their mid-40s in 2050 when 38％ of the Japanese
population will be 65 years old or over and the COINS scientists will be held on December 13 at Kawasaki City HighSchool for Science and Technology (For second-year students). They will discuss about the issues on the super-aged society
as their own affairs such as what are the scientific solutions. (Note 1)
It is decade by decade for the research to bear fruit and be implemented in society. This will be an event with the intentionof raising awareness of the super-aged society to today’s high school students.
We will facilitate audience participation with deploying an online zoom voting function and intend to reflect the audience’spriorities and focus as invaluable inputs for our future research from citizens perspectives. Here are the participants for theround-table talk (order of the Japanese syllabary).
Toshio Asano, Chairman, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research・・・From the standpoint of a business player
Yoko Anzai, Manager, Kawasaki City Board of Education・・・From the standpoint of an education
Yusuke Date, Science Communicator, Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation・・・From thestandpoint of citizen literacy
Miyuki Tabata, Assistant Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University・・・From the standpoint of a scientist
Akie Hotta, Chairperson, Kawasaki Nursing Association・・・From a nursing standpoint

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.
Please apply from the application URL below.
【Application URL】https://coins.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/en/event/sympo2021.html
Note 1: We welcome interviews at the high school student workshop on December 13. Please contact the press release office inadvance.

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Friday, January 21, 2022 at 13:00 – 17:15 (JST)ONLINE (ZOOM Webinar)
Public Viewing (Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion Hall 1F)Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM)
KAWASAKI INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION
Kawasaki City
Japanese・English ※ Simultaneous interpretation available
Free ※Communication charges (internet) required for participation will be an individualresponsibility.
Advance application system. The specified URL is required to attend as the symposium will
be held on the Web using the remote conference system "ZOOM" Please pre-register fromthe application URL below before 17:00 on Monday, January 17th, 2022

Application URL：https://coins.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/en/event/sympo2021.html※ Please see the above URL for program details.

Public Interest Incorporated Foundation KAWASAKI INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROMOTIONKAWASAKI INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION was established in 1988 funded 100% fromKawasaki City for the purpose of coping with the hollowing out of industry and changes in the demand structure.
In order to realize a higher level of market development, transforming R&D type companies, training
technological capabilities to support it, human resources development, understanding market needs, etc., byutilizing the functions of the Kawasaki, KAWASAKI INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION has beencontributing to revitalize the local economy by promoting exchanges of local industry information, advancing
technology and corporate exchanges with establishment of a R&D institutions, developing creative humanresources through workshops and promoting businesses such as expanding sales channels through exhibitionbusiness.
https://www.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/

Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM)
Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) started its operation in April 2015 as a core research center inlife science field at King SkyFront on the request of Kawasaki city that KAWASAKI INSTITUTE OFINDUSTRIAL PROMOTION utilized national policies as a business operator and proposer.
It is a unique research center that the world has ever seen which is designed for the purpose of promoting open
innovation through industry-academia-government/medical-engineering collaboration, prepared with state-ofthe-art facilities and experimental equipment, that enables comprehensive research and development fromorganic synthesis / microfabrication to preclinical testing.
https://iconm.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/en/index.html

Center of Innovation Program (COI)The COI program is a research and development program under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency. The program employs the backcasting
approach and set interdisciplinary and collaborative R&D themes that should be challenged at the present fromthe issues that are underlying in the future society. Eighteen centers have been established nationwide to realize
radical innovation through industry-academia collaboration which cannot be accomplished by industry andacademia alone.
The Kawasaki center is the only COI center managed by local governments, not universities, and the research
projects carried out there are called COINS (Center of Open Innovation Network for Smart Health).
COI: https://www.jst.go.jp/tt/EN/platform/coi.html
COINS: https://coins.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/en/index.html

December 1, 2021