Workshop: The 5th "Medicine and Mathematics" Workshop on September 29, 2024

The 5th “Medicine and Math” workshop took place on September 29th (Sun.) and 30th (Mon.), 2024, at RIKEN Integrated Innovation Building (IIB) in a hybrid format. This workshop series, which started at Kyoto University in 2019 and continued online in 2020, at Kyoto University in a hybrid format in 2022, and at Tohoku University in a hybrid format in 2023, aims to establish a new academic field that addresses questions and hypotheses in the field of clinical medicine with the aid of precise measurement, quantitative analyses, and mathematical modeling, by fusion of clinical science, mathematics, and physics. This year, the workshop was organized by Akihisa Yamamoto and Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN iTHEMS), Motomu Tanaka (Heidelberg University, Kyoto University), Hiroshi Suito (Tohoku University, RIKEN iTHEMS), Eiryo Kawakami (RIKEN R-IH, Chiba University) and Takashi Sakajo (Kyoto University, RIKEN iTHEMS). It was co-hosted by RIKEN iTHEMS, Center for Integrative Medicine and Physics (CiMPhy, Kyoto University), Mathematical Science Center for Co-creative Society (MathCCS, Tohoku University), and Center for Science Adventure and Collaborative Research Advancement (SACRA, Kyoto University).

The workshop had approximately 50 participants onsite and 50 participants online each day. The event featured 20 invited speakers and 12 poster presentations covering various fields such as cancer, pulmonology, ophthalmology, dentistry, primordial germ cells, cell dynamics, data science, and deep learning. The presentations included interdisciplinary studies and led to fruitful discussions among participants from different professional fields. Each day of the workshop began with welcoming remarks from Kohei Miyazono (Executive Director, RIKEN), Motoko Kotani (Executive Vice President, Tohoku University) on Day 1, and Nagahiro Minato (President, Kyoto University) on Day 2.

Reported by Akihisa Yamamoto