The Hirosaki University COI Innovation Summit will be held on January 30th at Hotel Naqua City Hirosaki (Omachi, Hirosaki City).

The "Innovative Innovation Creation Program (COI STREAM)" is an initiative that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency support large-scale industry-academia collaboration, and started in FY2013. The program supports up to 9 billion yen for up to 9 years. Hirosaki University's proposal “Building a breakthrough disease detection mechanism by fusing brain science research and big data analysis and developing preventive methods” was selected from among 12 proposals nationwide. Was chosen by.

"The discovery and prevention of signs of modern diseases such as dementia cannot be elucidated from one factor," says Hiroshi Murashita, Professor and COO of the Hirosaki University COI Research Promotion Organization (Graduate School of Medicine). Ichisan. Behind the world-leading BIC project, which collects approximately 600 items of medical examination data over the next 10 years, Shigeyuki Nakaji, a professor of social medicine at the university, started 10 years ago with "Iwaki There was a "health promotion project".

The project was in the Iwaki district of Hirosaki City (formerly Iwaki-cho), and was conducting health awareness activities and health checkups closely related to local residents, centered on Mr. Nakaji. "Health matters cannot be handled without mutual trust. Dr. Nakaji's activities had already been built in close relationships with the community," Murata said. Show his confidence that "This achievement has led to collaboration with GE Healthcare Japan, a major medical device company."

A total of 200 medical staff gathered at the gymnasium in the Iwaki district for a 10-day check-up from May to June last year, and it took 4-6 hours per person. “It's a feature of Hirosaki University that local residents understand and that local companies cooperate with us despite the national project,” says Murashita.

In addition to the 2014 report, which was the first year of adoption of the COI, the summit plans to announce the COIs in other areas and hold discussions among top industry-academia-government attendees. After the summit, there will be a social gathering where you can interact with the participants. "If we want Hirosaki citizens to know more about the achievements of the first year and be proud of the national projects being carried out in local cities," Murashita calls for participation.

Holding time is from 13:00 to 17:00. free entrance. The meeting after the summit is from 19:00 and the participation fee is 3,000 yen.