CBI Annual Meeting 2025 -Time schedule-

         
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▼Oct. 27 (Mon)   ▼Oct. 28 (Tue)   ▼Oct. 29 (Wed)   ▼Oct. 30 (Thr) update: 2025.10.20  
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 Oct.27 (Mon) Oct.27 (Mon) Oct.27 (Mon)
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27
Time Big hall 5F Small hall 5F Zuiun 2F (144) Heian 2F (144) Fukuju 2F (144) Togen 2F (144) 4F Training Room 4F (84) 401(63) 407(36) 406(30) 402(30) 403(30)
13:00-17:00   13:30-16:30
CBI Research Institute Symposium 2025
        <Tutorial>
TS01 Cheminformatics tutorial with python
<Tutorial>
TS02 Practical Tutorial on the FMO Database: Utilizing Quantum Chemical Intermolecular Interaction Data of Biomacromolecules
<Tutorial>
TS03 Introduction to Chemoinformatics Using KNIME
     
17:00-17:30                        
17:30-19:00 Opening Remarks
Awards Ceremony
<Young Scientist Award>
Ibuki Kawamata (Kyoto University)
"Development of Molecular Robots Integrating Biomolecular Devices"
                     
19:00-20:30     CBI reception                  
 
 Oct.28 (Tue) Oct.28 (Tue) Oct.28 (Tue)
Oct

28


Time Big hall 5F 1F Small hall 5F Zuiun 2F (144) Heian 2F (144) Fukuju 2F (144) Togen 2F (144) Training Room 4F (84) 401(63) 407(36) 406(30) 402(30) 403(30) 303(48) 302(32)
10:00-10:10 Remarks from the CBI President
Booth
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Poster Session













Poster Session
Duty time
(16:00-18:00)


                         
10:10-10:35 <CBI2025 President>
Chair: Masakazu Sekijima (Institute of Science Tokyo)
CL01 Yutaka Akiyama(Sch.Comp., Science Tokyo)
"The Intersection of HPC and Drug Discovery: The Future Enabled by Massively Parallel Computing Technology"
                         
10:35-11:45 <Plenary Lecture>
"The future created by quantum computing"
Chair: Yutaka Akiyama(Sch.Comp., Science Tokyo)
10:35-11:20
PL01-01 Kazuya Masu (G-QuAT)
"Quantum Frontiers: Shaping the Future through Agile Dynamic Innovation"
11:20-11:45
PL01-02 Akihiko Arakawa (Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
"Chugai's vision and initiatives on quantum computing"
     
                 
11:00-
Break
room

Elix Café
by
Elix, Inc.


11:00-
Break
room

Patcore Chill Lounge
by
Patcore, Inc.
11:45-12:00 Break Break  
12:00-13:00     <Luncheon Seminar>
LS01 Amazon Web Services Japan G.K."Development of Next-Generation Drug Discovery Infrastructure Utilizing AWS at Daiichi Sankyo"

Seiji Sato (DAIICHI SANKYO) "Establishment of Next-Generation Drug Discovery Infrastructure: Innovation in Drug Discovery Process through Integrated Research Data Utilization"
Takahiro Terasawa(AWS) "Next-Generation Drug Discovery Research Platform on AWS: Implementing Integrated Data Utilization through Data Mesh Architecture"
<Luncheon Seminar>
LS02 Elix, Inc. "Challenging Targets and Hot Modalities: Insights from Elix DiscoveryTM"

Tatsuya Toma (PRISM BioLab Co.,Ltd)
Tasuku Ishida
 (Elix, Inc.)
<Luncheon Seminar>
LS03 Schrödinger K.K. "Transforming Antibody Research Through the Integration of
Experimental and Computational/Data Science"

Ryo Matsunaga (The Univ. of Tokyo) "Antibody Discovery and Characterization through the Integration of Experimental and Computational Science"
Osamu Icbihara (Schrödinger KK) "Predicting VHH: How Far Have Structure Prediction Methods Come?"
             
13:00-14:00 Break Break <Focused Session>
FS04 Advanced Measurement and Analysis
   
14:00-15:30 <Invited Talk>
"Chemoinformatics"
Chair: Takayuki Serizawa (Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.)
14:00-14:50
IL01-01 Gregory Landrum (ETH Zurich)
"A personal perspective on open science, open source, and open data"
14:50-15:30
IL01-02 Yoshihiro Yamanishi (Nagoya University)
"Data-driven identification of therapeutic targets and drug candidates through machine learning"
  <Sponsored Session>
SS01 Advanced Studies in the AMED/BINDS In Silico Unit

Masami SAKO(Institute of Science Tokyo) "Structure-Based 3D Molecular Generation via a Diffusion Model Incorporating Protein 3D Structures and Pharmacophore Constraints"
Masayuki KRASAWA(Univ. of Tokyo) "Computational Study of the Reaction Mechanism of a SAM-Dependent 3-ACP Transferase"
Natnicha JIRAVEJCHAKUL(The University of Osaka) "Machine learning for multi-disease classification and therapy stratification from immune repertoires"
Jun KOSEKI(AIST) "Exploring Cryptic sites to Access Undruggable Protein Targets"
<Sponsored Session>
SS02 NVIDIA/GDEP Advance "Evolution of generative AI for drug discovery and NVIDIA GPU technologies"

Tak YAMADA (NVIDIA)
Teruki Honma (RIKEN)
<Sponsored Session>
SS03 Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) Latent Chemical Space Based on Diverse Natural Products for Bio-active Molecular Design

Yasubumi Sakakibara (Kitasato Univ.) "Generative AI model for protein-specific molecular design"
Hiroaki Iwata (Tottori Univ.) "Development of AI Models for Drug Candidate Evaluation and Ongoing Validation in Collaborative Research"
Hideyuki Shimizu (Institute of Science Tokyo) "An Integrated AI Approach to Antimicrobial Discovery: From Natural Product Mining to Molecular Design"
Shuto Hayashi (Institute of Science Tokyo) "Development and applications of an autonomous learning molecular design platform"
<Focused Session>
FS01 Founding Meeting of the Discussion Group on AI-assisted Drug Design and Mesoscopic Chemistry
<Focused Session>
FS02 Meet the Legend
<Focused Session>
FS03 Advances in Foundation Models: Transforming Drug Discovery and Life Sciences
<Focused Session>
FS05 Cohort × Real-World Data Research Forum
   
15:30-16:00 Break Break    
16:00-18:00                            
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 Oct.29 (Wed) Oct.29 (Wed) Oct.29 (Wed)
Oct

29

Time Big hall 5F 1F Small hall 5F Zuiun 2F (144) Heian 2F (144) Fukuju 2F (144) Togen 2F (144) Training Room 4F 401(63) 407(36) 406(30) 402(30) 403(30) 303(48) 302(32)
10:00-11:30   Booth
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Poster Session


Poster Session
Duty time
(16:00-18:00)
        <Oral Presentation> O01
『Data Science(1)』
<Oral Presentation> O02
『Computational Chemistry (Molecular Modeling・Molecular Recognition)/Quantum-Structural Life Sscience』
<Oral Presentation> O03
『AI Drug Discovery』
<Oral Presentation> O04
『Health Sciences/ADMET/Clinical Application』
  Break
room

Elix
Café

by
Elix, Inc.


Break
room

Patcore
Chill
Lounge
by
Patcore, Inc.
   
11:30-12:00                        
12:00-13:00     <Luncheon Seminar>
LS04 Patcore, Inc. "Data-driven strategies and AI-assisted discovery bring about a next-generation model for drug discovery and research"

Excelra  "Transforming Therapeutics: A Mechanism-Based Approach to Drug Discovery"
Yusuke SASAKI (Kitasato University)
<Luncheon Seminar>
LS05 Elsevier Japan K.K. "From agents to chatbots, travelling in the LLM world without losing sight of the foundations"

Dr. Frederik van den Broek (Senior Director Professional Services and Consulting) "From agents to chatbots, travelling in the LLM world without losing sight of the foundations"
<Luncheon Seminar>
LS06 MOLSIS Inc. "Improving Efficiency and Addressing Challenges in Antibody Drug Discovery with Beacon and MOE"

Kinya Toda (MOLSIS Inc.)
Yoshirou Kimura (MOLSIS Inc.)
             
13:00-14:00
                     
14:00-15:30 <Invited Talk>
"Advancing Drug Discovery Through Medical Data: From Analytics to Target Identification"
Chair: Mayumi Kamada (Kitasato University)
14:00-14:30
IL02-01 Tomohiro Kuroda (Kyoto University Hospital)
"The Amended Next Generation Infrastructure Act enhances the data-driven drug discovery"
14:30-15:00
IL02-02 Ryo Kunimoto (Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.)
"Toward Data-Driven Drug Discovery based on Multi-Omics Analysis"
15:00-15:30
IL02-03 Tohru Ishitani (Osaka University)
"~Synthetic biology of healthy longevity~Synthesizing longevity in the extremely short-lived killifish"
  <Sponsored Session>
SS04 Iktos K.K. "New Frontiers in the Digital Transformation of Chemistry Powered by AI and Robotics"

Ikumi Kuriwaki (Astellas Pharma Inc.) "Astellas’s Digital Transformation -DX-Driven Drug Discovery and DX-Talent Development for Chemical Modalities-"
Victoire Cachoux(Iktos K.K.) "Synthesis-driven GenAI for molecule design: Growing and Linking Optimizers "
Hideyoshi Fuji (Iktos K.K.) "Iktos' Next-Generation Drug Discovery Approach: 3D Generative AI and Robotics-Driven Laboratory Automation"
<Sponsored Session>
SS05 Elix, Inc. "Accelerating Drug Discovery with Elix DiscoveryTM: Case Studies and New Features of Our AI Platform for Small-Molecules"

Tomoki Nishioka (Eisai Co., Ltd.)
Tatsunobu Sumiya
(KYORIN Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
Akimi Hori
(Japan Tobacco Inc.)
Tasuku Ishida
(Elix, Inc.)
Takahiro Inoue
(Elix, Inc.)
<Sponsored Session>
SS06 GENESIS Users' Group "15th GENESIS Users' Group Seminar - GENESIS Molecular Dynamics Software: Recent Advances and Case Studies"

Song-Ho Chong (Kumamoto Univ.) "Elucidating missing structural information in protein systems using gREST enhanced sampling"
Hiraku Oshima (Univ. of Hyogo) "Prediction of Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Using Free Energy Perturbation"
Kiyoshi Yagi (Univ. of Tsukuba) "Development of QM/MM methods in GENESIS and applications to enzymatic reactions"
Yuji Sugita (RIKEN/Univ. of Tokyo) "Development of multi-scale molecular dynamics software GENESIS: Current Status and Future Plan"
<Focused Session>
FS06 Medical Data AI Analysis Practical Forum
<Focused Session>
FS07 Computational ADMET research group
<Focused Session>
FS08 Founding Meeting of the Discussion Group on AI-assisted Drug Design and Mesoscopic Chemistry (2)
<Focused Session>
FS09 Molecular Robotics Research Group : Establishing a foundation for systems behavior design in molecular robotics
<Focused Session>
FS10 How to Build a Career as a Computational Scientist: Learning from Diverse Career Paths
   
15:30-16:00 Break Break  
16:00-18:00          
               
18:30-20:30       Banquet(for a fee)
Excellent Student Abstract Award Ceremony
                     
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 Oct.30 (Thu) Oct.30 (Thu) Oct.30 (Thu)
Oct

30

Time Big hall 5F   Small hall 5F Zuiun 2F (144) Heian 2F (144) Fukuju 2F (144) Togen 2F (144) Training Room 4F 401(63) 407(36) 406(30) 402(30) 403(30) 303(48) 302(32)
10:00-11:30
Booth
/
Poster Session




        <Oral Presentation>O05
『Data Science(2)』
<Oral Presentation>O06
『Drug Discovery Application』
<Oral Presentation>O07
『Bioinformatics』
<Oral Presentation>O08
『Molecular Robotics』
  Break
room

Elix
Café

by
Elix, Inc.


Break
room

Patcore
Chill
Lounge
by
Patcore, Inc.
   
11:30-12:00    
 
             
12:00-13:00
  <Luncheon Seminar>
LS07 Ahead Biocomputing, Co. Ltd. "Chem-Bio Informatics in the Quantum Era"

Keisuke Yanagisawa (Institute of Science Tokyo) "FraSCO-VS: Fragment-based Virtual Screening by Combinatorial Optimization with Quantum Annealer"
Masahito Ohue (Ahead Biocomputing, Co. Ltd.) "Prospects and Challenges of Quantum Computing in Drug Discovery and Biotechnology (Panel Discussion)"
<Luncheon Seminar>
LS08  OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences "Evolving Computational Drug Discovery Workflows with Toolkits"

OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences"Modular Cheminformatics – Solving Problems one Toolkit at a time –"
<Luncheon Seminar>
LS09 CAS "CAS BioFinderTM New Solutions for Utilizing AI in Drug Discovery Research"

Kazuhito Nakamura (CAS) "CAS BioFinderTM New Solutions for Utilizing AI in Drug Discovery Research"




       
13:00-14:00                        
14:00-15:30 <Invited Talk>
"Generative AI: The Knowledge Engine Weaving the Future"
Chair: Taishi Kodera (PwC Consulting LLC)
14:00-14:30
IL03-01 Reina Akama (Center for Language AI Research, Tohoku University)
"Predicting the Evolution of Generative AI: Trends Today and What Lies Ahead"
14:30-15:00
IL03-02 Kazue Mizuno (Preferred Networks, Inc.)
"Initiatives in Leveraging Generative AI in the Life Sciences Field at Preferred Networks"
15:00-15:30
IL03-03 Kosuke Nakago (Sakana AI)
"Sakana AI's directions in generative AI research"
  <Sponsored Session>
SS07 Xeureka Inc."GPU × AI-Powered Drug Discovery R&D — Sharing Knowledge and Growing the Tokyo-1 Community"

Hiroki Makiguchi (Xeureka Inc.)"Introduction of Xeureka and Tokyo-1: AI Drug Discovery Trends and Tokyo-1 Community Initiatives"
Kazuya NAGAOKA (Astellas Pharma Inc.)"Advancing Multi-Modality Drug Discovery through Generative AI and High-Performance Simulations Accelerated by Tokyo-1"
Masakuni Kurono (Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)"The Innovations in Drug Discovery Brought by the Tokyo-1 GPU Supercomputer"
Shunya MAKINO(Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.)"Approaches for Data-Driven Drug Discovery Using GPUs"
<Sponsored Session>
SS08 SAKURA internet Inc. "SAKURA internet's GPU cloud accelerates research and development", "Introduction of the use case of the managed HPC cluster service "SAKURAONE" in the development of the Japanese version of the Medical LLM"

Yuki Nishida (SAKURA internet Inc.)"SAKURA internet's GPU cloud accelerates research and development"
Fumikazu Konishi (SAKURA internet Inc.)"Introduction of the use case of the managed HPC cluster service "SAKURAONE" in the development of the Japanese version of the Medical LLM"
<Sponsored Session>
SS09 Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. "Next-generation drug discovery platform powered by agentic AI"

Tetsuto Matsunaga (AWS) "Next-generation drug discovery platform powered by agentic AI"
Yuji Shiina (AWS) "Utilizing AWS services to build infrastructure for genomic analysis and drug discovery research"
Kentaro Takahashi (Human Biology DataEcosystem, Integrated Data Science, Human Biology Creation Hub, DHBL Eisai Co., Ltd.) "AI for Human Biology Understanding"
  <Focused Session>
FS11 AI Meets Stem Cells: Computational Advances in Toxicity Prediction
  <Focused Session>
FS12 Founding Meeting of the Discussion Group on AI-assisted Drug Design and Mesoscopic Chemistry (3)
<Focused Session>
FS13 Workshop on the Omics Principle
   
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:00 Oral/Poster/Like! Poster Award Ceremony                            
16:00- About CBI2026, Closing Remarks                            
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