Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology

CCII's Toshiyasu Suzuki introduces guest speaker Jun Ishihara (Imperial College) who spoke on "Improving Efficacy and Safety of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Cytokine Therapy, and CAR-T Cells via Tumour Collagen-Targeted Drug Delivery System" www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/the...

The high level of heterogeneity of immune cells, (Kenji Chamoto) says, “is likely an eternal challenge in immunology.”'

Visiting Prof. Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social in the second session of a hands-on workshop for CCII PhD students on writing introductions, abstracts & cover letters. www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

The high level of heterogeneity of immune cells, (Kenji Chamoto) says, “is likely an eternal challenge in immunology.”'

What's in a name? Quite a lot: for cancer immunotherapy, it is vital that researchers & clinicians know when they are talking about the same cells (or not). CCII's Kenji Chamoto participated in this effort to standardise T cell nomenclature. #Immunology @natrevimmunol.nature.com

🔖 Bookmark now, reference later: Most #ThyroidCancer cases are well differentiated and asymptomatic, and surgery with or without #RadioactiveIodine is curative in most tumors >1 cm. Cite this #JAMAReview: ja.ma/4yI1vHC

'Were it not for the imperative to turn more than a trillion dollars of losses into a profit, we would not have the aggressive, site-destroying scraping epidemic. Nor would we see AI crammed into every part of every product and service we use.' pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...

Following the success of last year, Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto is honoured to host the “Terry Fox Run 2026,” a charity event dedicated to supporting the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology (CCII). www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/2026/07/1...

You might be interested in this paper fm last year by my @ccii-kyoto.bsky.social colleague Kenji Chamoto et al, making the for neoantigens that activate both CD4 & CD8 rupress.org/jem/article/...

Following the success of last year, Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto is honoured to host the “Terry Fox Run 2026,” a charity event dedicated to supporting the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology (CCII). www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/2026/07/1...

Day 3 of Salvatore Cosentino's CCII Workshop on Data Sharing and Management for Scientists. www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/cci...

CCII Visiting Professor Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social kicks off a series of sessions for graduate students on how to write the introduction to scientific manuscripts www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Thanks to Cornelia Weyand (Mayo Clinic/Stanford) for visiting Kyoto & CCII & giving the 50th CCII Seminar on “The Hidden Risk of Immune Youth in #Autoimmune Disease”. www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event_...

At @cruk-mi.bsky.social, Santiago Zelenay @santiagozelenay.bsky.social introduces CCII vice director Sidonia Fagarasan, who spoke on metabolic effects on cancer #immunotherapy.

Day 3 of Salvatore Cosentino's CCII Workshop on Data Sharing and Management for Scientists. www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/cci...

CCII Visiting Professor Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social kicks off a series of sessions for graduate students on how to write the introduction to scientific manuscripts www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Thanks to Cornelia Weyand (Mayo Clinic/Stanford) for visiting Kyoto & CCII & giving the 50th CCII Seminar on “The Hidden Risk of Immune Youth in #Autoimmune Disease”. www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event_...

Cornelia Weyand (Mayo Clinic/Stanford) will visit Kyoto & CCII on July 6th to speak about “The Hidden Risk of Immune Youth in #Autoimmune Disease”. It will mark our 50th CCII Seminar 🎂 #Immunology www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event_...

At @cruk-mi.bsky.social, Santiago Zelenay @santiagozelenay.bsky.social introduces CCII vice director Sidonia Fagarasan, who spoke on metabolic effects on cancer #immunotherapy.

📢 Upcoming Workshop! Registration is still open for our upcoming ASHBi workshop. Don't miss out on the latest research! 📅 Date: June 22–23, 2026 📍 Venue: Nitori Hall, CCII, Kyoto Univ. 👉 Sign up: forms.gle/BWX876ymrwf4... 🔗 Event details: ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-...

Dorina Avram (Moffitt Cancer Center) at CCII, discussing the “Control of Exhaustion and Stemness Programs in Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Opportunities for Response Improvement in Adoptive Cell Therapy” www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve... #Immunology #Immunotherapy

New fm CCII researchers Katsuhiro Ito, Kenji Chamoto , Tomonori Yaguchi et al: "Phenotype of circulating tumor-reactive T cells predicts immune checkpoint inhibitor response in non-small cell lung cancer" #Immunology #Immunotherapy @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

June 1st at CCII, Dorina Avram on "Control of Exhaustion and Stemness Programs in Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Opportunities for Response Improvement in Adoptive Cell Therapy" #Immunology www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

After two days on how to generate images, Stanford's Guolan Lu guided CCII workshop participants through what is arguably the most significant bottleneck: how to analyse all the resulting data (pic by @hiroshi-ichise.bsky.social) #Imaging #Immunology www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

With @hiroshi-ichise.bsky.social, closing the @ccii-kyoto.bsky.social workshop on advanced imaging and image analysis in Kyoto. Thanks to Guolan Lu (Stanford), @iannaconelab.bsky.social, Andrea Radtke (Leica), Yuki Sugiura (CCII), and Johanne T. Jacobsen for great lectures and practicals!

A Brief History of Everything (in imaging) with Oslo University's Johanne Tracey Jacobsen at CCII's workshop on Advanced Tissue Imaging and Image Analysis, followed by hands on work for the participants. #Immunology #Imaging www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

A Brief History of Everything (in imaging) with Oslo University's Johanne Tracey Jacobsen at CCII's workshop on Advanced Tissue Imaging and Image Analysis, followed by hands on work for the participants. #Immunology #Imaging www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

New paper from CCII researchers Masaki Tajima, Sidonia Fagarasan et al: a purine salvage pathway that helps CD8 T cells cope with metabolic stress and fend off ferroptosis. #Immunology #Metabolism @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Matteo Iannacone @iannaconelab.bsky.social gave a tour de force presentation on liver immunity, hosted by @hiroshi-ichise.bsky.social as part of the CCII workshop on Advanced Tissue Imaging & Image Analysis #Immunology #TissueImmunity www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

Matteo Iannacone @iannaconelab.bsky.social gave a tour de force presentation on liver immunity, hosted by @hiroshi-ichise.bsky.social as part of the CCII workshop on Advanced Tissue Imaging & Image Analysis #Immunology #TissueImmunity www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

CCII's Kenji Chamoto introduces guest speaker Florent Ginhoux, who spoke on the heterogeneity of tumor associated macrophage #Immunology #Kyoto www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Deadline extended to March 27th for the CSHA conference on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense May 11-15, 2026! We have a fantastic list of speakers and opportunities for abstract talks. For full details, please visit the conference webpage: www.csh-asia.org?content/2975. Hope to see you in Suzhou!

⏰ Reminder: There’s still time to register & submit an abstract for the 21st International Conference on Innate Immunity! 🎓 Travel awards available 📅 May 22–27, 2026 | 📍 Kalimera Kriti Hotel & Conference Center 🇬🇷 #InnateImmunity #Immunology aegeanconferences.org/src/App/conf...

Our Imaging workshop organizer, Hiroshi Ichise, will be joining CCII this spring. You can read Hiroshi's recent work with Ron Germain, 'Rebalancing viral and immune damage versus repair prevents death from lethal influenza infection' (and see the beautiful images) 👇 www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🧫 Working in pediatric infectious diseases? IIC 2026 takes place June 23–25, 2026, in Oxford, UK. Plenary sessions on key topics in pediatric infection, with lectures, case rounds & debate. Learn more: https://loom.ly/Qr7bMHM #ImmunologyWithoutBorders

Our Imaging workshop organizer, Hiroshi Ichise, will be joining CCII this spring. You can read Hiroshi's recent work with Ron Germain, 'Rebalancing viral and immune damage versus repair prevents death from lethal influenza infection' (and see the beautiful images) 👇 www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Register for April's CCII Workshop on Advanced Tissue Imaging & Image Analysis, here in Kyoto. Org. by Hiroshi Ichise & supported by Leica. Invited faculty: Matteo Iannacone (San Raffaele), Johanne Tracey Jacobsen (Oslo), Guolan Lu (Stanford), Yuki Sugiura (CCII) & Andrea Radtke (Leica). It's free!

Register for April's CCII Workshop on Advanced Tissue Imaging & Image Analysis, here in Kyoto. Org. by Hiroshi Ichise & supported by Leica. Invited faculty: Matteo Iannacone (San Raffaele), Johanne Tracey Jacobsen (Oslo), Guolan Lu (Stanford), Yuki Sugiura (CCII) & Andrea Radtke (Leica). It's free!

Tetsuo Hasegawa from the LMB (Cambridge) will give a seminar at CCII (Kyoto) on March 25th on “Fenestrated capillaries and the sentinel macrophage-nociceptor unit in joint immunity” For more info. 👇 #Immunology #Immunotherapy www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

Brown was an early mentor to Tasuku Honjo, who's always acknowledged him (including in his Nobel lecture over 4 decades later, on a completely different topic) When we were creatin a small exhibition here in @ccii-kyoto.bsky.social, Prof Honjo insisted that it include Don Brown (pic is from a panel)

Tetsuo Hasegawa from the LMB (Cambridge) will give a seminar at CCII (Kyoto) on March 25th on “Fenestrated capillaries and the sentinel macrophage-nociceptor unit in joint immunity” For more info. 👇 #Immunology #Immunotherapy www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/eve...

MHC one–two punch knocks out #cancer. Amir Ghorbani and Jonathan Yewdell @niaidnews.bsky.social discuss new study by Zhang, Chamoto and colleagues @ccii-kyoto.bsky.social (rupress.org/jem/article/...) in Insights: rupress.org/jem/article/... #TumorImmunology #Immunotherapy

The Chamoto lab at CCII works on the interplay of metabolism, ageing, and immunity in the host response to tumors. Find out more about their research here 👇 www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research/...

New paper from CCII: Active aldehydes accelerate CD8+ T cell exhaustion by metabolic alteration in the tumor microenvironment, by Yasuharu Haku, Kenji Chamoto et al in @natimmunol.nature.com #Immunology #Immunotherapy #Metabolism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here at @ccii-kyoto.bsky.social we had a workshop with @victora.bsky.social @danmucida.bsky.social Angelina Bilate (Rockefeller) & Carolina Lucas (Yale) where I asked them to discuss with the students & postdocs failed projects & negative results, including when to walk away from a project.

CCII's Sidonia Fagarasan & Kenji Chamoto recently discussed recent advances in tumor #metabolism & #immunity at the 2nd @csisingapore.bsky.social – Kyoto University Joint Symposium. www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/2025/11/2...