Green Innovation
- Creation of Innovative Core Technology for Manufacture and Use of Energy Carriers from Renewable Energy
Research Supervisor: Koichi Eguchi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
- Phase Interfaces for Highly Efficient Energy Utilization
Research Supervisor; Nobuhide Kasagi (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
- Creation of essential technologies to utilize carbon dioxide as a resource through the enhancement of plant productivity and the exploitation of plant products
Research Supervisor; Akira Isogai (President, Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
- Creation of Basic Technology for Improved Bioenergy Production through Functional Analysis and Regulation of Algae and Other Aquatic Microorganisms
Research Supervisor: Tadashi Matsunaga (President, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
- Photoenergy conversion systems and materials for the next generation solar cells
Research Supervisor: Shuzi Hayase (Professor, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology)
- Chemical conversion of light energy
Research Supervisor: Haruo Inoue (Specially-appointed Professor, Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Life Innovation
- Creation of Innovative Technology for Medical Applications Based on the Global Analyses and Regulation of Disease-Related Metabolites
Research Supervisor: Yoshiya Oda (President, Biomarkers and Personalized Medicine Core Function Unit, Eisai Product Creation Systems)
- Elucidation and regulation in the dynamic maintenance and transfiguration of homeostasis in living body
Research Supervisor; Masato Kasuga (President, National Center for Global health and Medicine )
- Structural life science and advanced core technologies for innovative life science research
Research Supervisor; Soichi Wakatsuki (Professor of Photon Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA, Professor of Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Stanford University)
- Design and Control of Cellular Functions
Research Supervisor: Hiroki Ueda (Group Director, Center for Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC), RIKEN)
- Elucidation and control of the mechanisms underlying chronic inflammation
Research Supervisor: Kiyoshi TAKATSU (Director, Toyama Prefectural Institute for Pharmaceutical Research / Visiting professor, University of Toyama / Professor emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
- Formation of and information processing by neural networks, and control
Research Supervisor: Fujio Murakami (Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University)
- Epigenetic control and biological functions
Research Supervisor: Tsunehiro Mukai (Professor Emeritus, Saga University)
- Understanding life by iPS cells technology
Research Supervisor: Shin-ichi Nishikawa (Deputy Director, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN)
- Decoding and controlling brain information
Research Supervisor: Mitsuo Kawato (Director/ATR Fellow, ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratories Group /
ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
Nanotechnology & Materials
- Hyper-nano-space design toward innovative functionality
Research Supervisor: Kazuyuki Kuroda (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
- Innovative nano-electronics through interdisciplinary collaboration among material, device and system layers
Research Supervisor: Takayasu Sakurai (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo)
- Molecular technology and creation of new functions
Research Supervisor; Takashi Kato (Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo )
- New Materials Science and Element Strategy
Research Supervisor: Hideo Hosono (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Innovative use of light and materials/life
Research Supervisor: Hiroshi Masuhara (Specially Appointed Professor at Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology / Chair Professor at Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
- Nanosystem and function emergence
Research Supervisor: Yoshihito Osada (Group Director, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN)
Information & Communications Tech.
- Advanced Core Technologies for Big Data Integration
Research Supervisor: Masaru Kitsuregawa (Director General, National Institute of Informatics)
- Information Environment and Humans
Research Supervisor: Toru Ishida (Professor, Graduate school informatics postgraduate course, Social informatics specialty, Kyoto University)
- Synthesis of Knowledge for Information Oriented Society
Research Supervisor: Hideyuki Nakashima (President, Future University Hakodate)
Research Acceleration Program
- In vivo detection of tiny tumors with novel photo-functional imaging probes
- The viral short transcripts is a candidate target detecting HIV early infection and monitoring ongoing viral replication in patients
