BEACON ASIA TOUR |
Join us in Tokyo at TKP Garden City PREMIUM Shinagawa Takanawa-guchi TKPガーデンシティPREMIUM品川高輪口 カンファレンスルーム3E
Overview
Experience the full potential of live single-cell functional analysis and discover how researchers use Beacon technology to accelerate discoveries and unlock new insights.
Powered by advanced optofluidics, every Beacon instrument lets you track multimodal, time-resolved cellular responses in real time—seamlessly pairing functional data with sequencing from the very same cell.
Explore Beacon Discovery™, our new benchtop platform that packs these powerful optofluidic capabilities into a more accessible and compact package.
Speakers
Prof. Satoshi Yamazaki
Professor, the Division of Cell Regulation at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Satoshi Yamazaki is a Professor in the Division of Cell Regulation at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo . His work experience includes positions at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, and a visiting researcher position at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University. Prior to his current role, he was a Professor at the Stem Cell Therapy Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba.
Dr. Patrick Schmidt
Group Leader Transgenic T Cell Therapy, DKFZ
Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Schmidt is a senior scientist with 20 years of experience in CAR-T research. He completed his undergraduate studies in Developmental Biology and Genetics at the University of Cologne, earning his diploma in 2005. He conducted his Ph.D. research in Hinrich Abken's lab, developing anti-melanoma CARs, and finished in 2008. This was followed by a three-year DFG fellowship-sponsored postdoctoral position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. In 2014, Patrick joined the Department of Medical Oncology at the National Center of Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, led by Dirk Jäger. He is currently a research group leader and head of ATMP manufacturing, affiliated with the University Hospital Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center.