JST The Center of Innovation Program (COI): Self-Managing Healthy Society

Japan, facing a world-leading low birth rate and aging population, is in urgent need of structural shift to a Self-Managing Healthy Society where one takes care of one's own health, aged people support the society together with the younger generation, and GNI (gross national income) is increased as a result of the creation of a new health and medical industry. To realize a Self-Managing Healthy Society, it is imperative to develop an innovative system for prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment that dramatically reduces hospitalization and visits to the doctor’s office, and to create a new business model for a health and medical guidance service based on scientific evidence to stay healthy at home. The COI aims at the maintenance and improvement of health, based on the utilization of medical information.

- Kazuhiko OHE, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor
- Masaomi NANGAKU, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor
- Mineo KUROKAWA, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor
- Kazuto HOSHI, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor
- Keishi FUJIO, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor
- Shinichi TOKUNO, Graduate School of Medicine, Project Associate Professor
- Kayo WAKI, Graduate School of Medicine, Project Associate Professor
- Thomas Svensson, Graduate School of Medicine, Project Researcher
- Hideo YASUNAGA, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor
- Satoru MIYANO, Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, Professor
- Ichiro SAKUMA, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor
- Shu TAKAGI, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor
- Ryo MIYAKE, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor
- Akiko KISHI, Graduate School of Engineering, Project Assistant Professor
- Seiya IMOTO, Health Intelligence Center, The Institute of Medical Science, Professor　　　and others

- Total 54 articles in 2017
- Park H, Niida A, Imoto S, Miyano S. Interaction-Based Feature Selection for Uncovering Cancer Driver Genes Through Copy Number-Driven Expression Level. J Comput Biol. 24(2):138-152, 2017.
- Ono S, Ono Y, Matsui H, Yasunaga H. Impact of clinic follow-up visits on body weight control in people with prediabetes or diabetes mellitus: Japanese nonelderly cohort study. Family Practice 2017; 34(5):552-557.
- Svensson T, Svensson AK, Kitlinski M, Almgren P, Engstrom G, Nilsson J, Orho-Melander M, Nilsson PM, Melander O. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. Plasma concentration of Caspase-8 is associated with short sleep duration and the risk of incident diabetes mellitus. 2018 Feb 1. doi: 10.1210/jc.2017-02374.
- and 51 more articles

- 11 patent applications filed in 2017