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Next-Generation Endoscopic Therapeutics Lab
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A lab that develops medical devices jointly with companies, based on needs identified in clinical practice.
AboutAbout the lab
Solving clinical problems through joint development with companies.
The Joint Research Chair of Next-Generation Endoscopic Therapeutics (Project ENGINE) develops new medical devices jointly with companies, starting from problems that physicians identify in clinical practice.
Working with company subgroups in an end-to-end manner, from the basic and preclinical stages through to commercialization, the lab aims for early implementation in society.
Data obtained during development are shared between the university and the participating companies. The university publishes them academically, and the companies use them to develop and improve devices.
The lab also accepts company personnel engaged in medical device research and development, and trains development personnel using clinical training and animal experiment facilities.
Key terms
- Open innovation
- An approach in which universities and companies develop technology together by contributing their technologies and ideas across organizational boundaries
- Preclinical stage
- The stage before moving on to clinical trials in humans, in which the performance and safety of a prototype are verified
- Spin-off
- Applying an advanced device, after its development, to treatments that are currently performed
NewsLab news
An international joint research paper by Project Professor Nakajima was published in Surgical Endoscopy
Project Professor Nakajima received a Special Award at the MDF Medical-Engineering Collaboration Award JAPAN
Graduate students published the development history of the rectal and uterine clamper in Scientific Reports
Graduate students won first place as Team Japan in the endoscopic skills contest of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery
ResearchResearch themes
This chair believes that, to bring truly needed medical devices to society, the needs of clinical practice matter more than technology itself. Through open innovation with many companies, it conducts research and development on the advanced medical devices required for next-generation ultra-minimally invasive treatment.
*Illustrative imageJointly developing devices from physicians' needs
Based on specific medical needs held by physicians, the lab forms a subgroup of companies that can address them, and works end to end from the basic and preclinical stages through to commercialization. The aim is early implementation in society.
*Illustrative imageMaking device development an academic discipline
The development process yields new academic data and insights, so the lab regards it not as mere manufacturing but as scholarship. One of the chair's most important missions is for the physicians who use the devices to publish these insights.
*Illustrative imageCollaboration with companies that hold core technologies
The lab collaborates with companies in Japan and abroad that hold the core technologies development requires, such as plastic molding and processing, metal processing, polymer science, and fine chemistry. It spins off advanced devices into current treatment, working to standardize and spread technically difficult procedures.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Joint Research Chair of Next-Generation Endoscopic Therapeutics consist of a Project Professor, Visiting Associate Professors and other visiting faculty, graduate students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- Project ProfessorKiyokazu Nakajima
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Two endoscopes on a blue background” Bluestoking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Jointly developing devices from physicians' needs: “Medical Device Development M.Eng. Program Class, Winter )” UC Davis College of Engineering / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Making device development an academic discipline: “Insertion tip of endoscope” melvil / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Collaboration with companies that hold core technologies: “Injection Molding Machine with a robot arm” The robotic engineer1 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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