Women In Science (5 juin, Tokyo)
Tokyo
A seminar on women’s participation in research, the challenges faced, and its impact on innovation and discoveries, with a focus on health.
Maison franco-japonaise. June 05, 2025, 13:30 – 18:05
Program
13:00 Welcome and registration
13:30-13:40 Opening Remarks
• Welcome speech from Christophe d’Enfert Institut Pasteur (3min)
• Welcome speech from RIKEN (3 min)
• General Introduction from the Embassy of France in Japan (3 min)
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13:45-14:15 Session 1: Public Policy
• Goal: Introduce the tools used to promote and evaluate research in France and Japan, and to link this topic with women in science (and diversity in general) .
• Speakers (FR): Christophe d’Enfert (Institut Pasteur)
• Speakers (JP): Miyoko Watanabe (: Elsevier Japan, Permanent Trustee of Nihon University)
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14:20-14:50 Keynote Speech:
• Goal: Encouraging Male Participation in Care Work within Japanese Companies: A Marketing Perspective
• Speaker Professor Renge JIBU (Institute of Science Tokyo)
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14:55-15:40 Session 2: Impacts on Research and Innovation
• Goal: Examination of the implications of women’s under-representation in discoveries and innovations
• Speakers (FR):
▸Fiona Louis (Osaka University)
• Speakers (JP):
▸ Tomoko Kusuda (Corporate Responsibility, L’Oreal Japan)
▸ Hikaru OKADA (Head of Specialty Care Medical Japan, Sanofi K.K.)
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15:40-16:00 Energy Break & Networking
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16:05-16:50 Session 3: Women in health & Women’S health
• Goal: Highlight how the underrepresentation of women affects the direction and outcomes health research, especially as far as women’s health is concerned
• Speakers (FR):
▸ Nabila Bouatia-Naji (INSERM Université Paris Cité – PARCC)
• Speakers (JP):
▸ Kaoru Ito ((Riken IMS)
▸ Lisa Kitasato (Kitasato University School of Medicine)
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16:55-17:55 Session 4: Round table: When Bias Hurts: the impact of the lack of diversity in science on scientific careers and research outcomes
Goal: Through sharing of individual experience, exchange on the ways in which the underrepresentation of women affects the direction and outcomes of research and discuss the structural and cultural barriers limiting women’s full participation in science and innovation.
• Moderator
▸ Lisa Kitasato (Kitasato University School of Medicine)
• Speakers (FR):
▸ Christophe d’Enfert (IP)
▸ Nabila Bouatia-Naji (INSERM Université Paris Cité – PARCC)
▸ Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol (Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle Calédonie)
▸ Lucy de Lataillade (HKU-Pasteur)
• Speakers (JP):
▸ Naoko Satoh-Takayama (Riken IMS)
▸ Fiona Louis (Osaka University)
▸ Hikaru OKADA (Head of Specialty Care Medical Japan, Sanofi K.K.)
▸ Anavaj Sakuntabhai (Institut Pasteur du Japon)
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17:55-18:05 Closing remarks
