A Wonderful Autumn Day in Boston with Fujifilm and Harvard Sharing Ideas and Building Relationships

Fujifilm is very proud to sponsor the Fujifilm Fellowship program at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 2019. Since its inception, 41 HMS Therapeutics Graduate Program (TGP) Ph.D. students from around the world have been awarded fellowships supporting their work to advance therapeutics discovery, development, and applications to improve the treatment of disease.?

On October 17, Fujifilm representatives from R&D and the Life Sciences Strategic Business Office had the honor to meet Fujifilm Fellows and HMS administrators at a symposium and poster session in Boston.??

The annual symposium was organized by the TGP and designed under the theme of “Utilizing Computation, Bioinformatics, and AI in Therapeutics Development.”??

After opening remarks by David E. Golan, M.D., Ph.D., TGP Faculty Director and Dean for Research Initiatives and Global Programs at Harvard Medical School, up next was FUJIFILM Corporation’s Takeshi Yamamoto, corporate?vice?president, deputy?general manager, Life Sciences Strategy Headquarters and general manager, Bio Science & Engineering Laboratories.???

In addition to his description of Fujifilm’s activities and operations in life sciences, Yamamoto talked about R&D topics including lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mRNA technology, scalable cell and gene therapy technology, and AI/digital transformation for biopharmaceutical product development.??

Over six hours, presentations from not only Harvard (students and faculty) but also the tech industry described cutting-edge research and thoughts focusing on the AI revolution in therapeutics development.???

During the poster session that followed, Fujifilm representatives enjoyed speaking face-to-face with the Fujifilm Fellowship recipients to learn about the students and their research.??

“It was an honor and pleasure to visit Boston for this esteemed event. The cutting edge-technology being applied to therapeutic development at TGP is truly impressive,” said Tomoyuki Hasegawa, general manager, Life Sciences Strategic Business Office, and president and chief executive officer, FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc.??

“Further, our one-on-one discussions with the students and faculty allowed us to deeply sense the passion they have for the work they do as well as their sincere appreciation for the opportunities created by the Fujifilm Fellowship program.”?

Overall, the day was a tremendous opportunity to learn about the latest trends and technologies that are changing therapeutics development but also to build on the relationships between Fujifilm and Harvard faculty and students.?