Achievements
Awards(Archive)
The main awards and honors received by researchers are listed below (Affiliation at the time of the award). “Awards” TOP
Japan Prize
Creation of groundbreaking inorganic electronic functional materials utilizing nanostructures (2016)
- HOSONO Hideo
- Professor, Frontier Research Institute for Materials Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology / Director, Center for Element Strategy Initiative
Gairdner International Award
Groundbreaking discoveries in the animal innate immune defense system against infection, achieved through analyses of the pathogen-recognition functions of numerous Toll-like receptors (TLRs) (2011)
- AKIRA Shizuo
- Director, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University
- 〔Research Results〕
- The role of innate immunity
Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureate Award(formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate Award)
For contributions to bioinformatics, specifically for his development of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) (2018)
- KANEHISA Minoru
- Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
For their discovery and application of perovskite materials to achieve efficient energy conversion (2017)
- MIYASAKA Tsutomu
- Specially Appointed Professor, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Toin University of Yokohama
Provided by The University of Osaka
Discovery of regulatory T-cells, characterization of their role in immunity and application to the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer (2015)
- SAKAGUCHI Shimon
- Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University
Pioneering research on novel multiferroic materials (2014)
- TOKURA Yoshinori
- Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
- 〔Research Results〕
- Multiferroics Research
Discovery of iron-based superconductors (2013)
- HOSONO Hideo
- Professor, Materials and Structures Laboratory / Director, Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 〔Research Results〕
- Spurring a New Boom in Iron-Based Superconductors!
Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms and physiological functions of autophagy※（2013）
- MIZUSHIMA Noboru
- Professor, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
※Jointly awarded with Prof. Yoshinori Ohsumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Prof. Daniel J. Klionsky (University of Michigan)
- 〔Research Results〕
- Fascinated by Autophagy
Discovery of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (the Honda-Fujishima Effect) (2012)
- FUJISHIMA Akira
- President, Tokyo University of Science
Selected as one of the ‘Breakthrough of the year’ in the US scientific journal Science
Intestinal bacteria of obese mice brew up carcinogens to trigger liver cancer (2013)
- OHTANI Naoko
- Senior Staff Scientist, The Cancer Institute of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
- HARA Eiji
- Division Chief, The Cancer Institute of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Created functional human organs made by human iPS cells such as a ‘mini-liver’ for the first time in the world (2013)
- TANIGUCHI Hideki
- Professor, Yokohama City University
- 〔Research Results〕
- Organ generation using iPS cells
To produce a fertile egg by Pluripotent stem cells of mouse (ES Cells, iPS Cells) (2012)
- SAITOU Mitinori
- Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Matenal Sciences, Kyoto University
Clarification of structure of crystals of “photochemical complexⅡ”which protein is required for producing oxygen from water and sunlight. (2011)
- JIAN-Ren Shen
- Professor, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
- 〔Research Results〕
- The biggest mystery of photosynthesis has been solved
Innovator of the Year
Awarded for numerous achievements, including identifying essential oncogenic driver molecules in various cancer types and developing technologies to directly search for such molecules from clinical cancer specimens (2014)
- MANO Hiroyuki
- Professor, Department of Cellular Signaling, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
- 〔Research Results〕
- Realization Through Molecular Target Therapy