Personnel Information

写真a

KANDA Genki


Job title

Professor

Homepage URL

https://rosci.org/en/

Field Introduction URL

https://rosci.org/en/

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

  • Hokkaido University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2010.03, Graduated

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

  • Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Life Science, Master's Course, 2012.03, Completed

  • Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Doctor's Course, 2016.03, Completed

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Ph.D., Osaka University

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Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2024.12
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    2025.03
    Institute of Science Tokyo， -， Institute of Integrated Research， Medical Research Laboratory， Visiting Lecturer
  • 2025.04
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    Now
    Institute of Science Tokyo， -， Institute of Integrated Research， Biological Data Science， Department of Robotic Science， Professor
  • 2026.10
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    Now
    Institute of Science Tokyo， Institute-wide Support Centers， Research Infrastructure Management Center， -， Deputy Director
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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2012.04
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    2013.03
    RIKEN, Center for Developmental Biology (CDB), Junior Research Associate
  • 2013.04
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    2015.03
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)
  • 2015.04
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    2018.03
    RIKEN, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR)
  • 2018.06
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    2021.11
    RIKEN, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Research Scientist
  • 2020.01
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    2025.03
    Kobe City Eye Hospital, Visiting Scientist
  • 2021.12
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    2025.03
    RIKEN, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Senior Research Scientist
  • 2024.04
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    2025.03
    Osaka University, SANKEN, Visiting Associate Professor
  • 2025.04
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    Now
    The University of Osaka, SANKEN, Visiting Professor
  • 2025.04
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    Now
    RIKEN, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Senior Visiting Scientist

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Academic Society Affiliations 【 display / non-display 】

  • The Molecular Biology Society of Japan

  • The Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine

  • Laboratory Automation Suppliers' Association

  • Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine

  • Molecular Biology Society of Japan

  • Laboratory Automation Suppliers' Association (LASA)

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Academic Activity 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2016.06
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    2021.07
    Robotic Biology Institute Inc. Advisor
  • 2022.04
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    2026.03
    Vision Care Inc. Advisor
  • 2024.04
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    Now
    Laboratory Automation Suppliers' Association Chair
  • 2024.11
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    2026.10
    The Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine Delegate
  • 2025.08
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    Now
    QueeenB Inc. Scientific Advisor
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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Molecular biology

  • Biofunction and bioprocess engineering

  • Others

  • Laboratory Automation

  • Biomedical engineering

  • Molecular biology

  • Biofunction and bioprocess engineering

  • Biomedical engineering

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Qualification Acquired 【 display / non-display 】

  • Dive Person

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)

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Research Theme 【 display / non-display 】

  • The Living Laboratory: Embodied AI Agents Conduct Life Science Research, 2025.09 - 2031.03

  • Understanding of sleep/wake time distributions in mammals, 2016.04 - 2018.03

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Published Papers & Misc 【 display / non-display 】

  1. GEMS: a deterministic finite automaton framework for adaptive laboratory automation 2026.03; 5 (3): 1411-1424. ( DOI )

  2. Automating <i>care</i> by self-maintainability for full laboratory automation 2025.08; 4 (9): 2285-2297. ( DOI )

  3. Self-driving laboratories in Japan 2025.05; 4 (6): 1384-1403. ( DOI )

  4. Regional developers’ community accelerates laboratory automation 2024.10; 100211. ( DOI )

  5. Performance of ChatGPT in board examinations for specialists in the Japanese Ophthalmology Society 2023.12; ( DOI )

  6. Robotic cell processing facility for clinical research of retinal cell therapy 2023.10; ( DOI )

  7. Robotic search for optimal cell culture in regenerative medicine 2022.06; 11 e77007. ( DOI )

  8. Automated evaluation of retinal pigment epithelium disease area in eyes with age-related macular degeneration 2022.01; 12 (1): 892. ( PubMed, DOI )

  9. A variable scheduling maintenance culture platform for mammalian cells 2021.04; 26 (2): 209-217. ( PubMed, DOI )

  10. A microfluidic platform based on robust gas and liquid exchange for long-term culturing of explanted tissues 2019.10; 35 (10): 1141-1147. ( PubMed, DOI )

  11. Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors Chrm1 and Chrm3 are essential for REM sleep 2018.08; 24 (9): 2231-2247.e7. ( PubMed, DOI )

  12. Robotic crowd biology with Maholo LabDroids 2017.04; 35 (4): 310-312. ( PubMed, DOI )

  13. Nishihara Mika, Kanda Genki N., Suzuki Tetsuya, Yamakado Shin'ichiro, Harashima Hideyoshi, Kamiya Hiroyuki. Enhanced transgene expression by plasmid-specific recruitment of histone acetyltransferase Journal of bioscience and bioengineering. 2017.03; 123 (3): 277-280. ( PubMed, DOI )

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Conference Activities & Talks 【 display / non-display 】

  1. Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. Agentic AI for Fully Automated Science. Agentic AI in the Lab: Smarter Workflows, Higher Throughput 2026.03.18

  2. Akari Kato, Ryosuke Matsuzawa, Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. An AI agent–based platform for data-centric laboratory automation. SLAS 2026 2026.02.11

  3. Akari Kato, Koji Ochiai, Yuya Tahara-Arai, Takashi Inagaki, Ryosuke Matsuzawa, Living Laboratory Project Team, Haruka Ozaki, Genki N. Kanda. The Living Laboratory: Fully Automated Science Powered by AI Agents and Physical AI. SLAS 2026 2026.02.11

  4. Yuya Tahara-Arai, Takashi Inagaki, Akari Kato, Koji Ochiai, Kazuya Azumi, Koichi Takahashi, Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. Constraint-aware labware layout generation from natural language for heterogeneous laboratory robots. SLAS 2026 2026.02.10

  5. Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. Agentic AI for Fully Automated Science. SLAS 2026 2026.02.09

  6. Genki N. Kanda. Rethinking Humanics in the Age of AI Scientists. The 8th Symposium for Ph.D. Program in Humanics 2025.12.19

  7. Genki N. Kanda. The Living Laboratory: Fully Automated Science Powered by AI Agents and Physical AI. 23rd Surugadai International Symposium Program 2025.12.02

  8. Genki N. Kanda. Harnessing laboratory automation for the next wave in life science. The IMEG International Symposium of the Research Center for High Depth Omics & The 4D System Development and Regeneration Science Initiative 2025.09.29

  9. Genki N. Kanda. Harnessing Laboratory Automation for the Next Wave in Science and Regenerative Medicine. Stem Cells and Organoids at the Core of Biomedicine Symposium 2025.04.28

  10. Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. Automating Care by Self-maintainability for Full Laboratory Automation. SLAS 2025 2025.01.29

  11. Akari Kato, Sara Kobayashi, Yusuke Umae, Yumeto Amagasu, Koichi Takahashi, Genki N. Kanda. VR and AI-assisted cyber-physical platform for remote robotic operations in automated laboratories. SLAS 2025 2025.01.29

  12. Yuya Tahara-Arai, Akari Kato, Koji Ochiai, Kazuya Azumi. Genki N. Kanda and Haruka Ozaki. General Experiment Management System (GEMS) for Flexible and Scalable Laboratory Automation. SLAS 2025 2025.01.28

  13. Akari Kato, Akira Ogata, Kazuya Azumi, Koichi Takahashi, Genki N. Kanda, Mitsuru Morimoto. Development of an Automated System for Inducing Chondrocytes and Smooth Muscle cells from Pluripotent stem cells Using Versatile Humanoid Robot. EMBO Workshop on Molecular mechanisms of developmental and regenerative biology 2024.11.06

  14. Yuya Tahara-Arai, Akari Kato, Koji Ochiai, Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. General structure of experiments for comfortable laboratory automation. 2024 Accelerate Conference 2024.08.06

  15. Genki N. Kanda. Laboratory Automation and Robotic Crowd Biology: Decentralized Efficient Research by Centralization of Experiments. Funding the Commons Tokyo / Decentralized Science Tokyo Conference (DeSci. Tokyo) 2024 2024.07.24

  16. Yuya Tahara-Arai, Akari Kato, Koji Ochiai, Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. General structure of experiments for practical laboratory automation. ISCB's Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2024 (ISMB 2024) 2024.07.13

  17. Genki N. Kanda, Taku Tsuzuki, Auto Culture Project Team, Yosuke Ozawa, Masayo Takahashi, Koichi Takahashi, Tohru Natsume. Tailoring autonomous trial-and-error by robots and AI (robotic search system) for Biophysicst. 21st IUPAB Congress 2024 (IUPAB2024) 2024.06.24

  18. Yuya Tahara-Arai, Akari Kato, Koji Ochiai, Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki. General structure of experiments for comfortable laboratory automation. SLAS Europe 2024 2024.05.28

  19. Akari Kato, Robotic retinal cell therapy project team, Genki N. Kanda. Robotic retinal cell therapy. SLAS Europe 2024 2024.05.28

  20. Genki N. Kanda, Akari Kato, Koichi Takahashi, Kenji Matsukuma, Tohru Natsume. Robotalization of life science with Maholo LabDroid. SLAS 2024 2024.02.05

  21. Tomomitsu Iida, Motoki Terada, Yu Kogawa, Yumiko Shibata, Michinori Kitagawa, Shinya Kato, Tsuyoshi Yorimitsu, Kenji Matsukuma, Tadao Maeda, Masayo Takahashi, Genki N. Kanda. Assessment of microbiological contamination in a cell processing center for a humanoid robot. The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR 2023) 2023.06.16

  22. Takashi Inagaki, Akari Kato, Koichi Takahashi, Haruka Ozaki, Genki N. Kanda. LLMs can generate robotic scripts from goal-oriented instructions in biological laboratory automation. AIロボット駆動科学シンポジウム2023 2023.06.07

  23. Horiki Noguchi, Mamoru Suzuki, Koki Tachibana, AI Robot-driven Biology Education Team, Koichi Takahashi, Haruka Ozaki. A Minimal Open-Access Platform for Laboratory Automation Training. SLAS Europe 2023 2023.05.25

  24. Akari Kato, Koji Ochiai, Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki, Koichi Takahashi. Construction of a quantitative evaluation system for cell culture operation and cellular condition with a versatile humanoid robot. SLAS Europe 2023 2023.05.25

  25. Genki N. Kanda, Taku Tsuzuki, Auto Culture Project Team, Yosuke Ozawa, Masayo Takahashi, Koichi Takahashi, Tohru Natsume. Autonomous robotic search system for biological experiments on regenerative medicine using humanoid robot. SLAS Europe 2023 2023.05.25

  26. Genki N. Kanda. Applying Robotics to iPS Cell Research. The 1st RIKEN BDR-CCHMC CuSTOM Joint Workshop 2019.07.10

  27. Naohiro Motozawa, Auto Culture Project Team, Akitaka Tsujikawa, Masayo Takahashi. Automated cell culture for the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells into retinal pigment epithelial cells by LabDroid. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2019 (ARVO 2019) 2019.04.30

  28. Genki N. Kanda, Nozomu Yachie, Robotic Biology Consortium, Tohru Natsume. Robotic Crowd Biology and LabDroid for Accelerating Life Science Research. Winter Q-Bio 2018 2018.02.22

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Awards & Honors 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2025 SLAS Readers' Choice Awards，Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)，2025.01

  • RIKEN EIHO Award (RIKEN Significant Achievement Award)，RIKEN，2023.03

  • Best Paper Award in 2019，The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry，2019

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Social Contribution 【 display / non-display 】

  • The 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Public Symposium "Robotic Biology and Laboratory Automation for Molecular Biology", Organizer，The Molecular Biology Society of Japan，Kobe Port Island，2023.12.07

  • Laboratory Automation Developers Conference 2021 (LADEC2021), Director，Laboratory Automation Supplier's Association，2021

  • Laboratory Automation Developers Conference 2020 (LADEC2020), Director，Laboratory Automation Supplier's Association，2020

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