Prof. Makoto Obata received excellent presentation award at The 36th Annual Meeting of the Japan Photodynamic Association.

05/27/2026

From May 22 to 23, at The 36th Annual Meeting of the Japan Photodynamic Association, Prof. Makoto Obata of the Faculty of Engineering received the Excellent Presentation Award.

The title of the awarded presentation is "Preparation and application of pH-responsive polymer micelles for photosensitizer delivery". In this study, pH-responsive polymer micelles were fabricated for the delivery of photosensitizers with poor water solubility, and new insights were obtained into their molecular design and mechanism of action. This finding can contribute to the application of poorly water-soluble photosensitizers, which have been difficult to apply to phototherapy until now, to photomedicine. Prof. Obata commented, "Photomedicine is a typical medical-engineering integration where medicine and engineering technologies, such as laser technology and sensitizer development, are strongly linked. In the future, we aim to deepen our understanding of polymer micelles and further enhance their functionality."

Prof. Makoto Obata (second from left)