Overview of Kobe Campus
Our History
2000
April
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) opened
(CDB underwent a reform and closed as of March 2018)
(CDB underwent a reform and closed as of March 2018)
2002
April
RIKEN Kobe Institute (currently Kobe Campus) opened
Opening ceremony
Dr. Hiroo Imura, member of the Council for Science and Technology (President of Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster koso kenkyukai) gave a congratulatory speech
Dr. Hiroo Imura, member of the Council for Science and Technology (President of Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster koso kenkyukai) gave a congratulatory speech
2005
September
Molecular Imaging Research Program opened
(Incorporated into RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST) and closed as of March 2018)
(Incorporated into RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST) and closed as of March 2018)
Molecular imaging research and development center opened
2006
October
Crown Prince Naruhito visited the Center for Developmental Biology
2007
March
Port Island decided as the location for the supercomputer building
2010
July
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) opened
(Closed as of March 2018)
(Closed as of March 2018)
2011
April
RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) opened (Closed as of March 2018)
RIKEN HPCI Program for Computational Life Sciences opened (Closed as of March 2016)
RIKEN HPCI Program for Computational Life Sciences opened (Closed as of March 2016)
June
TOP500 rates K computer as fastest computer in the world
November
TOP500 rates K computer first place again for accomplishing 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second
2012
September
K computer became available for shared use
2014
March
Decision made to locate Post K computer in Kobe
September
The first transplant surgery was conducted for “Clinical study of the transplantation of autologous iPSC-derived RPE cell sheets in patients with exudative AMD” using iPS cells for the first time in the world by the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, RIKEN and Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital
2015
April
RIKEN Integrated Innovation Building (IIB) opened
November
The “Compass to Healthy Life Research Complex program” by Kobe selected as Japan Science and Technology Agency’s (JST) Research Complex Program
2016
May
Four institutes, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Graduate School of Medicine / Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University,Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University (CiRA), and RIKEN concluded an agreement to conduct “Clinical study of transplantation of allogenic iPSC-derived RPE cells in patients with exudative AMD”
2017
March
The first transplant surgery was conducted for “Clinical study of transplantation of allogenic iPSC-derived RPE cell suspension in patients with neovascular AMD”
April
RIKEN Centennial Commemoration Ceremony (Tokyo)
May
Prince Akishino visited RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
2018
April
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) opened
RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) opened
RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) opened
October
Basic agreement on collaboration and cooperation between RIKEN and Kobe city concluded
2021
March
The supercomputer Fugaku became available for shared use
