Executive Director Masayuki Yamamoto was selected as a Highly Cited Researchers 2018 by Clarivate Analytics in Cross-Field category.

Research group of Prof. Kure published an article about galactosemia on the journal “Genetics in Medicine”.

The article about new database ViBrism was published on Nucleic Acids Research.

Students in SAKURA Exchange Program in Science visited ToMMo.

New article about strategic methods for recruiting grandparents was published on The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine.

On October 11^th, 2018, Collaborative Seminar by Tohoku University and CEA, France “Toward the Next Generation Medicine” was held in Sendai.

Professor Jiucun Wang from Fudan University and Dr. Xiao-Kang Li from National Center for Child Health and Development visited ToMMo.

The article about vitamin B6 responsiveness in autism spectrum was published on Scientific Reports.

The article about SNP-sodium interaction effect on blood pressure was published.

High-speed quantum cryptographic communications with key distribution speeds exceeding 10 Mbps in a real-world environment.

Students and a researcher in SAKURA Exchange Program in Science visited ToMMo.

New version of Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel “jMorp”: 10,719 people Metabolome data are now available online.

The development of novel detection method for multiple pharmacogene variations.

Expanded version of Japanese genome reference panel including mitochondria and X chromosome is available online.

New article about open-angle glaucoma was published on Scientific Reports.

The article “Regional genetic differences among Japanese populations and performance of genotype imputation using whole-genome reference panel of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project” was published.

Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna who is well known by her great contribution for the development of CRISPR-Cas9 system visited ToMMo.

The article “Ethylene-Gibberellin Signaling Underlies Adaptation of Rice to Periodic Flooding” written by  Professor Gen Tamiya and his colleagues was published on Science.

The article about omics research project was published.

A free database aims to help researchers better understand how specific metabolites relate to one another, which could potentially lead to personalised disease treatments.

ToMMo has released the Japanese referenece genome v2 (JRGv2) and decoyJRGv2, upgrade version.

Article about design and mission of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project was published.

Health surveillance of the brain and psychological state program with MRI

iMethyl Database was launched by Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization.

Japonica Array: Improved genotype imputation by designing a population-specific SNP array with 1,070 Japanese individuals.