DAILAB (DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine) at the

Biomedical Research Institute (BMRI), Tsukuba campus of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science &

Technology (AIST), Japan is the first International laboratory in Life Sciences & Biotechnology. Emerged as a step

up from bilateral MoU and aimed to promote close and effective research collaboration and networking, it was

established on Oct 3, 2013. Signing and Opening Ceremony by AIST President, Dr. R. Chubachi and DBT

Secretary, Prof. K. VijayRaghavan was also graced by the presence of Her Excellency Ms. Deepa Gopalan

Wadhwa, Ambassador of India to Japan. DAILAB has been conducting basic to applied research on disease

prevention and therapeutics for increasing the Quality of Life (with focus on old age and cancer) and has

published 25 original research articles in high impact factor International peer reviewed journals.

http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sundar/dailab. In addition, DAILAB has been achieving its goals in training young talents

by embarking on a variety of interesting and motivating educational and networking activities as described

below.

Imaging Workshops: DAILAB has been conducing one-week full residential training workshop for bioimaging

that ranged from the principles of light microscopy to high-resolution imaging instructed by AIST experts with

assistance from Nikon, Olympus, Zeiss and ATTO Corporations. Three workshops (Jan 19-25, 2014; Dec 9-14,

2014 and Jan 18-23, 2016) enrolling 20 young selected researchers in each workshop from countries including

India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, China, Iran, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Nigeria and Russia have been

successfully completed. Intensive lectures in the mornings by experts in the field were followed by hands-on

microscope training in the afternoons. A tour to Leica and Zeiss showrooms in Tokyo was organized on the last

day for providing a feel of connectivity of science to technology, and was thoroughly appreciated at all ends

including organizers, trainees and industries. 30 young researchers from India were trained in this program. This

year, a highlight of the third imaging workshop was a joint PIKNIKH with CHANEL on Dec 18, 2016 where

scientists from AIST and CHANEL presented their research strategies and outcomes on the use of imaging

technologies for functional cosmetics and health care.