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Sep. 25, 2025 Japan Disease Stem Cell Society has been established.
The 1st Annual Meeting will be held on February 17, 2026, at Station Conference Tokyo.
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Apr. 11, 2025 The activities of MPS Team were featured in Nikkei Biotechnology News!
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Aug. 26, 2024 Contents of “Organizational Structure” and “Members” were updated.
Aug. 25, 2021 Contents of “Organizational Structure” and “Members” were updated.
Nov. 30, 2020 Contents of “Organizational Structure” and “Members” were updated.
Aug. 25, 2020 Contents of “Members” and “Publications in Report” were updated.
Aug. 25, 2020 The Special Issue of CSAHi’s review articles was published from Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Volume 21, Number 9, 2020).
https://benthamscience.com/journals/current-pharmaceutical-biotechnology/volume/21/issue/9/
The contents are 4 review articles from CSAHi Cardiomyocyte Team, Hepatocyte Team. Neuron Team, and Cell Characterization Team, and 3 review articles from National Institute of Health Science Japan, University of Oxford, and AnaBios Corporation.
Feb. 21, 2020 Contents of “Organization structure”, “An Executive Committee”, “Members” were updated.
Aug. 22, 2018 Latest exhibition information of "Sony Cell Motion Imaging System SI8000"

■5th Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-World Congress 2018 Kyoto Japan
Dates: September 4 to 7, 2018 (Exhibition: September 5 to 7, 2018)
Location: Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto) * Event Hall No.19
https://www.termis.org/wc2018/index.php ■Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting 2018 Meeting Dates: September 30 to October 3, 2018
Meeting Location: Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C., USA
https://www.safetypharmacology.org/am2018/
Aug. 22, 2018 Publications and Members information were updated.
Oct. 11, 2017 Working Members, Advisory and Publication information was updated.
Aug. 16, 2016 Latest exhibition information of "Sony Cell Motion Imaging System SI8000"

■2016 Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting (Vancouver, Canada) September 18-21, 2016 （SPS/JSPS/CSPT joint meeting)
http://www.safetypharmacology.org/am2016/
Sony Biotechnology exhibition booth：Vancouver Convention Center #405
Feb.19, 2016 Introduction of UK Scotland life science
Feb. 1, 2016 CSAHi introduce the activity in the Public Symposium of Regulatory
Science by Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
Jan. 14, 2016 Information from Sony Corporation for conference exhibition booth of the "Sony Cell Motion Imaging System SI8000"

■5th Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening Annual Meeting @ San Diego, California January 23-27,2016
http://www.slas2016.org/
Sony Biotechnology Inc. exhibition booth：San Diego convention center #646 ■55th Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxExpo @ New Orleans March 13-17,2016
http://www.toxicology.org/events/am/AM2016/index.asp
Sony Biotechnology Inc. exhibition booth：Ernest N. Morial Convention Center #1822※Exhibitor-Hosted Session http://www.toxicology.org/events/am/AM2016
/exhibit_hostsess.asp#tues
Session Title:
The Next Generation of Cardiomyocyte Contractility, Cell Migration, and Cell Viability Assays using the Sony SI8000 Live Cell Imaging Platform Session Description:
The Sony SI8000 Cell Motion Imaging System combines high-speed video microscopy with a motion vector algorithm to quantify cell motion. This new platform provides high resolution cardiomyocyte contractility analysis making it ideal for toxicology screening. Easily adapt the platform to assays such as cell migration, cell death and viability assays. Date: 3/15
Time: 12:00 PM-13:00 PM
Room Assignment: 205
Dec. 2, 2015 CSAHi paper is accepted to Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods.
Nov. 27, 2015 CSAHi activity is introduced in a workshop of The 6^th Meeting of Conference on Biomolecular Screening
Nov. 6, 2015 Cellular Dynamics International Japan, Inc. joined CSAHi as a supporting company.
Sep. 28 – Oct. 1, 2015 Six posters were presented at the 15^th Annual Meeting of Safety Pharmacology Society. One presentation was selected to oral presentation by organizing committee of the meeting.
Aug. 21, 2015 The CSAHi activity progress received front‐page top coverage on The Yakuji Nippo.
Aug. 21, 2015 Information from Sony Corporation for conference exhibition booth of the "Sony Cell Motion Imaging System SI8000"

■15th　Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting @ Prague,Czech Republic
September 28 - October 1, 2015
http://www.safetypharmacology.org/am2015/
Sony Biotechnology exhibition booth：Prague Congress Centre #29
June. 27, 2015 CSAHi will introduce the activity with 1 symposium and 7 posters in the 42nd of Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicology.
Date：June 29 (Mon) - July 1 (Wed), 2015
Venue：Ishikawa Ongakudo, Kanazawa Art Hall, Hotel Nikko Kanazawa

Symposium: “Research Activities toward the Safety Assessment using Human iPS Cell-derived Cells”
Date：June 29 (Mon) , 2015
June. 19, 2015 Information from Sony Corporation for conference exhibition booth of the "Sony Cell Motion Imaging System SI8000"

♦ CYTO2015
2015/6/26-30 @ Glasgow, Scotland
Sony exhibition booth：Scottish Exhbition and Conference Centre　#205
（at front right of convention center）

♦ ISSCR2015
2015/6/24-27@Stockholm, Sweden
Sony exhibition booth：＃B1024（Centrally located）

♦ The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Scciety of Toxicology
Date：June 29 (Mon) - July 1 (Wed), 2015
Venue：Ishikawa Ongakudo, Kanazawa Art Hall, Hotel Nikko Kanazawa
President：Toshiyuki Kaji, Ph.D
(Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Tokyo University of Science)
Sony exhibition booth：Hotel Nikko Kanazawa 4F Foyer
(in front of Banqueting Hall "Tsuru")
Apr. 28, 2015 Collaboration paper of Consortium for Safety Assessmemt using Human iPS cells (CSAHi), Japan iPS Cardiac Safety Assessment (JiCSA) and Japanese Safety Pharmacology Socierty (JSPS) was published.

K. Asakura et al., "Improvement of acquisition and analysis methods in multi-electrode array experiments with iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes." J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods, 2015, Apr 21.
Mar. 25, 2015 Mar. 16, 2015 CHAHi held the 4th plenary meeting.
Mar. 3, 2015 CSAHi has joined Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation as a supporting company.
Jan. 20, 2015 CSAHi activity will be introduced in a TV program of BS Nippon Corporation
January 24th (Saturday) 8:30-9:00 (rebroadcast: February 7th)
Dec. 8, 2014 Announce for New Products from Cellartis (Takara Bio Inc.)
Product information is available from "http://www.cellartis.com/".
Dec. 9, 2014 CSAHi introduced the activity at the 11th Forum of Regulatory Science for Medicine
Nov. 7, 2014 CSAHi activity was reported in an article of The Nikkei.
Oct. 30, 2014 “Opinion and information-exchanging public meeting for issues in the drug safety evaluation using human iPSC-derived cells” was held in a focused session of CBI Annual Meeting 2014.
Oct.28, 2014 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at a symposium “Human iPS derived differentiated cells” in CBI Annual Meeting
Sep. 24, 25 and 29, 2014 CSAHi activity was reported in an article of The Chemical Daily.
Sep. 23, 2014 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at a satellite symposium in The Japanese Society for Neurochemistry. “Key molecule for neuronal maturation”.
Sep. 4, 2014 CHAHi held the 3rd plenary meeting.
Jul. 30, 2014 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at the 9th study camp for graduate students of pharmaceutical science in the Kyusyu area.
Jul. 14, 2014 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at the iPS Business Conference.2014.
Jul. 2, 2014 CSAHi held a workshop in The 41st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicology.
Jul. 3, 2014 CSAHi presented 8 posters at The 41st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicology.
Apr. 10, 2014 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at the CPhI Japan 2014.
Feb. 10, 2014 CHAHi held the 2nd plenary meeting.
May 16, 2014 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at a symposium of the 21st Annual Meeting of Human & Animal Bridging (HAB) Research Organization.
Mar. 20, 2014 CSAHi introduced the activity at the joint symposium of The Japanese Pharmacological Society and The Japanese Society of Toxicology in The 87th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society.
Mar. 6, 2013 CSAHi activity was reported in the BioGarage.
Jan. 16, 17 and 18, 2014 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity by a poster at The 7th Takeda Science Foundation Symposium on PharmaSciences.
Nov. 25, 2013 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at a symposium of the Society for Cell-based Assay.
Sep. 26, 2013 CSAHi activity was re.ported in the RISFAX.
Sep. 7, 2013 CSAHi introduced the consortium activity at a symposium in the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Regulatory Science of Medical Products.
Jul. 16, 2013 Establishment of CSAHi was reported in an article of The Chemical Daily.
Jul. 11, 2013 Establishment of CSAHi was reported in an article of The Nikkei.
Jul. 8, 2013: CSAHi held kick-off meeting.
May 28, 2013 CSAHi held a briefing session.