Team Science Tokyo wins Gold Project Award at BIOMOD 2025

Team Science Tokyo, consisting mainly of undergraduate students from the Institute, has won the Gold Project Award at the 2025 International Biomolecular Design Competition (BIOMOD) held in Changchun, China from October 17 to 19.

BIOMOD, established in 2011 at the initiative of Harvard University, is an international competition in the fields of molecular robotics and molecular computing for university undergraduate students. Currently, the competition is organized by the Biomolecular Design Institute, CBI Research Institute, which is headquartered at the lab of Assistant Professor Shogo Hamada at Science Tokyo’s School of Computing.

Over the years, BIOMOD has grown into a competition that has welcomed more than 1,500 undergraduate students from over 16 countries and regions. This year, 19 teams consisting of approximately 140 participants from around the world competed to develop innovative biomolecular designs, and the devices and systems utilizing these designs.

The Gold Project Award is awarded to teams demonstrating exceptional overall scores across the evaluation criteria for their project website, video, and presentation. Team Science Tokyo were commended for their research, entitled “Bow-like DNA bending method using Avidin–Biotin binding.”

Team Science Tokyo members

・Student members

　・Yuna Ichikawa, 1st year, Life Science and Technology

　・Haruka Nishii, 1st year, Life Science and Technology

　・Godai Ishiguro, 1st year, Life Science and Technology

　・Yoshikazu Yamakawa, 1st year, Life Science and Technology

　・Takumi Sugiura, 1st year, Life Science and Technology

　・Furui Xiang, 2nd year, Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University

・Student mentors

　・Yosuke Ochi, 1st year doctoral student, School of Computing

　・Sota Hatanaka, 2nd year master’s student, School of Computing

・Faculty mentors

　・Assistant Professor Shogo Hamada, School of Computing

　・Professor Masahiro Takinoue, Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute for Integrated Research

・Collaborator

　・Professor Jiro Kondo, Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University

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