The new SPRING GX has started in April 2024 with 1154 project students,
following the re-application to JST.
November 13, 2024
Kouki Tamai received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2024 Ichthyological Society of Japan for his paper. Congratulations!
November 12, 2024
Hideaki Matsuo's research paper "All-in Situ Molecular-Templated Atomic Layer Deposition for Volatile Organic Compound Sensors" has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congratulations!
November 8, 2024
The results of a collaboration between a research group to which Yuanqi Lin belongs and the Cancer Chemotherapy Centre of the Cancer Institute were published in the electronic edition of Chemical Science. "‘Methyl scanning approach for enhancing the biological activity of the linear peptidic natural product, efrapeptin C".
Congratulations!
November 6, 2024
Liang Liu received the Best Talk Award at the Zhejiang University-The University of Tokyo Joint Symposium 2024 for his research entitled "TSHβ2-Expressing Cell: A Pivotal Coornaditor of Reprodutive Seasonality in Sticklebacks". Congratulations!
November 6, 2024
Yuya Hamanaka received the Student Best Poster Presentation Award at the 23rd Fungal Molecular Biology Conference for his poster and oral presentation. Congratulations!
November 5, 2024
Chikako Iwai received the Best Poster Award at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Clinical Epidemiology. Congratulations!
November 5, 2024
Chikako Iwai presented a study entitled "Comparison of perioperative adjuvant paclitaxel and docetaxel with ocular adverse events in patients with breast cancer: Propensity-score Overlap-weighted Analysis" at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology, and the study was published in Care Net News and Breast Cancer Practice Frontline News. Congratulations!
October 30, 2024
Ahmad Azaria Haykal won second place in the presentation of policy recommendations entitled ”Indonesia's first youth driven clean energy policy competition” on 20 September 2024 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Congratulations!
October 28, 2024
TIAN Runze has received the Encouragement Award from the Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering (JSIDRE) for his presentation on ”TSPとDBSCANを基にした水田管理におけるスマート水管理機器の自己適応区画選択法” at the 2024 Society for Agricultural and Rural Engineering Conference. Congratulations!
October 28, 2024
The research results of the research group to which Yuta Aoki belongs have been published in Nature Communications. (University of Tokyo, School of Engineering press release) "Deforming Structural Ceramics by Combining Two Brittle Ceramic Crystals" Congratulations!
October 23, 2024
Tomoya Akatsuka has been awarded the 9th Nakamura Hajime Prize for Eastern Thought and Culture [Matsue Mayor's Prize] by the Institute of Eastern Thought and Culture, Nakamura Hajime Memorial Hall for his research. Congratulations!
October 10, 2024
Mako Takada received the Student Best Poster Presentation Award at 2024 The 14th Asian Symposium of Microbial Ecology, 18-20 September 2024, for her presentation entitled ”Adaptation of Microbial Communities to Redox Environmental Changes in Subseafloor Sediments”. Congratulations!
October 1, 2024
Yoshino Ishizaki’s research paper "A new genus of Triassic discinid brachiopod and re-evaluating the taxonomy of the group—evolutionary insights into autecological innovation of post-Palaeozoic discinids" has been piblished in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, selected as Editors' choice. Congratulations!
September 30, 2024
Chikako Iwai's research paper ”Interstitial Pneumonitis Following Sequential Administration of Programmed Death-1/Programmed Death-Ligand1 Inhibitors and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Matched-Pair Cohort Study Using a Nationwide Inpatient Database” has been published in Clinical Lung Cancer. Congratulations!
September 27, 2024
Rintaro Miyagi’s research paper ”Interannual variability in potential impacts of upper ocean salinity on sea surface cooling induced by tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific” has been published in Climate Dynamics. Congratulations!
September 24, 2024
Miu Hoshino received a Poster presentation award for her presentation on the development of a bacteriophage screening method using water-in-oil droplet technology at the 2024 Joint Annual Meeting of BSJ & JSPT. Congratulations!
September 22, 2024
Kosei Kawai has received the Honorable Mention of Young Talk award at the 12th Conference on Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and its Applications (BDS2024). Congratulations!
September 21, 2024
Shunichiro Kurosawa has received the 21st English Presentation Award of the Spintronics Society of Japan for his oral presentation entitled “Magneto-thermoelectric Effect in Epitaxial Thin Film of Kagome Ferromagnet Fe3Sn” at the 71st Spring Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics in March 2024. Congratulations!
September 20, 2024
Yoshiki Obinata won first place in GPSR (a discipline for performing general life support tasks) at the RoboCup Japan @ Home League 2022 and was presented with an award at the awards ceremony for his presentation at the 41st Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan. Congratulations!
September 20, 2024
Kiminori Sugino received the 2024 Oceanographic Society of Japan Incentive Paper Award for his research paper “Zinc and silicon biogeochemical decoupling in the North Pacific Ocean". Congratulations!
September 19, 2024
Hiroto Ishii’s research paper "Two Tetrahymena kinesin-9 family members exhibit slow plus-end-directed motility in vitro" has been published in Scientific reports. Congratulations!
September 4, 2024
Kinya Shiraishi's research team's study on tree canopy coverage in the 23 wards of Tokyo was featured in the Asahi Shimbun DIGITAL. Congratulations!
September 3, 2024
Kelvin Tang's research paper "Climate change education in Indonesia's formal education: a policy analysis" has been published in npj climate action . Congratulations!
September 2, 2024
Koichiro Adachi's research paper "Effects of an online mindfulness-based intervention on brain haemodynamics: a pilot randomized controlled trial using functional near-infrared spectroscopy" has been published in Cerebral Cortex. Congratulations!
August 29, 2024
Xueding Wang received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award in the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science Section at the Jp GU Meeting 2024. Congratulations!
August 26, 2024
Senoo Yuki's research paper ”On the Eyes in Iliad 1.200: Focusing on the Relatonship Between Achilles and Athena, and the Use of δεινός”has been published in Philologica XIX Societas Philologorum. Congratulations!
August 24, 2024
Kelvin Tang awarded the Emerging Scholar Awards by Common Ground Research Networks in the USA.
August 24, 2024
Kelvin Tang's research on "Japan's youth and climate change" has been released to the press. Congratulations!
August 19, 2024
Kotaro Takahashi received the Encouragement Award from The Physics Education Society of Japan. Congratulations!
August 14, 2024
Yukiko Tsubota received the Best Young Investigator Award at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Medical Education. Congratulations!
August 13, 2024
Yukai Wang received the Best Student Paper at 2024 3rd International Conference on Power Systems and Electrical Technology (PSET) with the presentation title "Leveraging Simulation-Based Statistical Analysis for Optimal Polynomial and Inflection Point Selection in Local Frequency-Based Centre of Inertia Frequency Estimation". Congratulations!
August 2, 2024
Kokoro Fujiwara's research paper, "Background-free correlation spectroscopy using an infrared mode-locked laser" has been published in Optics Letters. Congratulations!
July 31, 2024
Helix Lo's research paper, "The education of human rights in Japan: a comparative analysis of civics textbooks in senior high school between the 1970s and 2010s" has been published in Asia Pacific Journal of Education. Congratulations!
July 30, 2024
Yuya Sato's research paper, "Extracellular vesicle-liposome hybrids via membrane fusion using cell-penetrating peptide-conjugated lipids" has been published in Regenerative Therapy. Congratulations!
July 29, 2024
Mayuka Kojima's research paper ”Design of a haptic device for presenting pressure and skin stretching stimuli to the palm” has been published in Frontiers. Congratulations!
July 28, 2024
Maorong WANG has received the Uenohara International Student Encouragement Award from the Foundation for the Promotion of Electrical, Electronic and Information Science. Congratulations!
July 28, 2024
Maorong Wang presented a paper at CVPR2024 entitled "Improving Plasticity in Online Continual Learning via Collaborative Learning". Congratulations!
July 25, 2024
Helix Lo's article "Human Rights Promotion Using Language and Cultural Means: Same-Sex Marriage and Taiwanese Civil Society" has been published in a chapter in Vol. 13 of Human Rights Education in Asia-Pacific. Congratulations!
July 24, 2024
Hedele Zeng had an oral and poster presentation of "Investigation of Pericyte Settlement on Microscale Morphology" in 7th Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) world congress in Seattle, WA, USA and received TERMIS SYIS-AP Travel Award. Congratulations!
July 22, 2024
Yusuke Wakayama's research paper "Application of bipolar electrodes in thermocells for efficient waste-heat recovery" has been published in Journal of Power Sources. Congratulations!
July 19, 2024
Takuto Itakura received the Best Poster Presentation Award at ASH Conference 2024 in Seoul. The title of his presentation was “Decoration of a portable case by a caddisfly larva: Its functional role in prey-catching and intra-population variation. Congratulations!
July 4, 2024
Kosei Kawai research paper "Water rotational relaxation time measurement by shortwave infrared micro spectroscopy (SWIR) at sub-zero temperatures" has been published in Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (SAA). Congratulations!
July 3, 2024
Marie Fujimoto's research paper, ”Autonomous or controlled interpreters? Model of Werktreue internalization for classical musicians” has been accepted in the Performance Science section of Frontiers in Psychology. Congratulations!
June 29, 2024
Tomohiro Morita's research paper "Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac muscle rings for biohybrid self-beating actuators" has been published in the journal Lab on a Clip. Congratulations!
June 28, 2024
Yuya Sato's research paper, "Cell membrane fusion induced by surface modification with cell-penetrating peptide–lipid conjugates that facilitates close contact between distinct membranes" has been published in Materials Advances. Congratulations!
June 27, 2024
The results of a joint research project on Alsatian spelling methods, of which Shun Miyakoshi is one of the authors, are featured on the website of the Alsace Moselle Languages and Cultures Office (OLCA). An article about the results was also published in the Alsatian regional newspaper L'Ami hebdo (June 16). Congratulations!
June 24, 2024
Putri Mustika Widartiningsih received the outstanding poster presentation award at the International Powder and Nanotechnology Forum (IPNF) 2024. Congratulations!
June 21, 2024
Miyako Muta's research paper "Pelvic floor muscle contraction automatic evaluation algorithm for pelvic floor muscle training biofeedback using self- performed ultrasound" has been published in BMC Women's Health. Congratulations!
June 21, 2024
Miyako Muta's research paper, "Development of an e-learning program for biofeedback in pelvic floor muscle training for adult women using self-performed ultrasound: An observational study" has been published in Nursing Science. Congratulations!
June 21, 2024
Tetsuji Kato received the Young Scientist Best Presentation Award for his poster presentation at the 15th Fusion Energy Union Lecture Meeting. Congratulations!
June 20, 2024
Shun'ichiro Kurosawa's research paper, "Thin Films of Topological Magnets for Thermoelectric Applications," has been published in Physical Review Materials and was selected for Editors' suggestion. It was also featured in Physics Magazine as "Featured in Physics". Congratulations!
June 17, 2024
Tetsuji Kato's research paper, ”Energy exchange between electrons and ions in ion temperature gradient turbulence” was selected as an Editor's Pick in Physics of Plasmas. Congratulations!
June 11, 2024
Sun Qingyu's research paper, “Hardness Perceived When Sliding Over Roughened Surfaces”, has been published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics. Congratulations!
June 9, 2024
Kinya Shiraishi's research paper "Tokyo's urban tree challenge: Decline in tree canopy cover in Tokyo from 2013 to 2022" has been published in the Journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. Congratulations!
June 6, 2024
Kosei Kawai received the Best Presentation Award at the 61st Japan Heat Transfer Symposium. Congratulations!
June 4, 2024
Ryo Ishibashi received the Best Poster Award as a Student Award at the International Microwave Power Institute 58 Symposium. Congratulations!
May 23, 2024
Aristide Colin has received the Student Presentation Award 2024 at the 104th CSJ Annual Meeting. Congratulations!
May 17, 2024
Zheng Jianlu received the 56th (Spring 2024) JSAP Young Scientist Presentation Award. Congratulations!
May 14, 2024
Naoya Katsuhama received the Best Presentation Award (Poster Presentation Category) at the 257th Crop Science Society of Japan Conference. Congratulations!
April 5, 2024
Megumi Kawai received the Archie Carr Student Award at the 42nd International Sea Turtle Symposium. Congratulations.
March 28, 2024
Kaito Seo received the Student Presentation Award at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. Congratulations!
March 26, 2024
LI Hanzheng received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Doctoral Course 2023 from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. Congratulations!
March 22, 2024
Yuya Hamanaka won the Novonesis student poster prize at the 20th International Aspergillus Meeting, a pre-meeting of the 32nd Fungal Genetics Conference, for his presentation on 'Growth inhibition between filamentous fungal colonies of the same strainand its regulatory mechanism'. Congratulations!
March 7, 2024
Kai Sakurai received the Student Presentation Award at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research and the Joint Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation Science. Congratulations!
February 29, 2024
Chikako Iwai received the Best Presentation Award for her oral presentation at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences. Congratulations!
February 27, 2024
Yutaro Fukushima received the Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
He also received the 'JB Paper Award' for his paper entitled 'Structural and biochemical analyses of the nucleosome containing Komagataella pastoris histones' published in The Jounal of Biochemistry. The paper was awarded the 'JB Paper Award' at the conference. Congratulations!
February 27, 2024
Yutaro Fukushima received the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the 41st Chromosome Workshop and 22nd Nuclear Dynamics Conference. Congratulations!
February 5, 2024
Naruhiko Nimura received the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award at the Evolutionary Computation Symposium 2023. The title of the paper was "Development of Three-Dimensional High-Degree-of Freedom Multiobjective Design Optimisation Method and Its Application to Wingtip Design of Micro Aerial Vehicle". At the same time, he also received the Japanese Society for Evolutionary Computation Presentation Award. Congratulations!
January 16, 2024
Yoshiki Obinata received the SICE International Young Authors Award (SIYA) for his paper presentation at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023). Congratulations!
January 15, 2024
Aristide COLIN awrded Chemical Science Poster Prize at the 18th International Conference on Molecule-Based Magnets (ICMM2023). Congratulations!
December 27, 2023
Ayuka Iwakiri received the Incentive Award from the Tree Health Research Society, Japan for her research. Congratulations!
December 26, 2023
Takeru Yazaki received Honorable Mention Award at 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia(MUM 2023). Congratulations!
December 25, 2023
Akira Matsumoto received the Poster Presentation Award for Excellent Research at the 13th CSJ Chemistry Festa. Congratulations!
December 8, 2023
Mr. Takumi Morishima won the Best Student Presentation Award (1st place) at the 18th Japan International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition organized by SAMPE JAPAN. Congratulations!
November 27, 2023
Mana Yamakawa received the Student Best Poster Presentation Award at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology. Congratulations!
November 24, 2023
The work "遠い海辺のガトルート工場" by Naohiro Shinjo won the Grand Prize at the 33rd Ginkgo Namiki Literary Awards organised by the Alumni Association. Congratulations!
November 21, 2023
Akifumi Mine has been awarded the Student Presentation Award at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan in 2023 in the area 6, for his presentation entitled "Study of the superconducting gap in the Kagome lattice superconductor CsV3Sb5 by low-tempreture and high-resolution laser ARPES ". Congratulations!
October 25, 2023
Takumi Shibata won the Young Geographers Award at the 15th Korea-China-Japan Joint Conference on Geography held in Seoul, Korea from October 20 to 23 for his presentation entitled "International Comparison on Arrangement of Railroad and Bus in Rural Areas: Focusing on the Cases of Japan and South Korea. Congratulations!
October 25, 2023
Juhoe Kim was selected as the Best Student Paper in The 2023 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT-2023) held in Ling Shui, China from October 16 to October 18 with the paper title of "Measurement of Aerodynamic Passive Twisting in Lattice-Structured Propeller Blades via Wind Tunnel Tests". Congratulations!
October 20, 2023
Kengo Sakurai received the Poster Presentation Award at the "Symposium University of Tokyo - ETH Zurich - University of Zurich" held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) on 15 - 17 October 2023. Congratulations!
October 16, 2023
Takuto Yamamoto received the Japan Society of Transportation Economics Award in the Paper Division for his paper, "The Nature of Special Taxation Measures on Unprofitable Bus Routes and Its Problems" (published in Transportation Policy Research, Vol. 25, No. 81). Congratulations!
October 6, 2023
Shunsuke Sakai received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the informatics in Biology, Medicine and Pharmacology 2023 (IIBMP2023). Congratulations!
September 27, 2023
Yuan LIN was awarded the Student Outstanding Presentation Award of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science Section at the Japan Geoscience Union 2023 Annual Meeting. Congratulations!
September 20, 2023
Daisuke YAMAGISHI was awarded Postdoc-Prize for his oral presentation at the 15th International Society of Endocytobiology (ISE) held in Chicago. Congratulations!
August 22, 2023
Zhang Yiwei was awarded the HANGAI PRIZE for Presenting an outstanding paper at The Annual IASS Symposium at Melbourne,July 2023. Congratulations!
August 21, 2023
Shintaro Seki received the Student Presentation Award at the 132nd Humanities and Computing Conference. Congratulations!
July 31, 2023
Yuki Yamauchi received the Award for Excellence in Young Oral Presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting for Developmental Neuroscientists. Congratulations!
June 29, 2023
In the 13th International Nanomedicine Conference held during June 19-21st in Sydney, Chen Pengwen gave an oral presentation entitled “Intratumoral pH-Activated Nanocytokine Boosts Immunotherapy to Eradicate Cold Tumors”. The presentation has been awarded “The Best Oral Presentation” in the conference.Congratulations!
May 26, 2023
Takayoshi Higashi was awarded the Best Student Presentation Award (Oral Presentation Section) at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.Congratulations!
May 12, 2023
Yuuji Moroto received the Best Technical Paper Award at SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. He is the first Japanese to receive this award. Congratulations!
May 12, 2023
Naruhiko Nimura received the Student Outstanding Presentation Award for his presentation at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Nanae Miyazaki received the Ryotaro-chan Foundation Best Presentation Award from the Japanese Society for Biliary Atresia Research for her presentation on the mechanism of fetal bile flow and liver injury using the mouse model of biliary atresia, Sox17+/-. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
YUAN WEILIN participated in KYOTO University Student Global Venture Contest 2022 (Online) with the theme of AI drug discovery and won the "Kyoto Research Park (KRP) Award" (second prize). Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Ryohei Yamada received the Best Poster Award at the 7th Photonics Workshop. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Masahiro Fujiwara received the Young Scientist Incentive Award Winner of the 66th Space Science and Technology Conference for his research on "Orbit Optimization Based on Observability Index for Estimating Gravity Field of Small Objects”. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Takuya Nakashima received the Best Presentation Award for his presentation "Proposal of Model-Based Design Methodology for Automatic Vessels and Social Implementation Mechanisms" at the 1DCAE/MBD Symposium 2022. Congratulations!
December 19, 2022
Spring GX Office Partner University Overseas Dispatch Program will be launched.
Partner universities: Stanford University, Arizona State University, University of Manchester, etc.
(Details to be released at a later date)
September 5, 2022
WEN Zhewei received the Certificate of Best Poster Award at the 18th Japan-Korea Symposium on Catalysis! Congratulations!
September 4, 2022
Hiroyuki Kojima has been awarded the 9th Minao Shibata Music Critics Award for Encouragement! Congratulations!
July 5, 2022
Call for applicants of October 2022 enrollment has started!
June 20, 2022
Hanzheng LI (D2, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences) has received the 38th Plasma and Fusion Society of Japan Young Scientist Presentation Award in 2021! Congratulations!
June 17, 2022
YouTube channel has been launched!
June 17, 2022
Application details for prospective doctoral students of October 2022 will be available on our website in early July 2022.
June 17, 2022
The outreach activities of Mr. Kenyo U (D1, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) were introduced in newspapers and on TV (Kyoto Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, KBS Kyoto)!
June 17, 2022
Mr. Shika Cyou's (D3, Department of Frontier Sciences) research was published in press release!
Press Release Press Release
June 17, 2022
Hiroki Takezaki's (D3, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology) research was featured in a newspaper (San-in Chuo Shimpo)!
June 17, 2022
Mr. Ryosuke Nishide's (D2, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) research was published in Physical Review Letters and selected for the cover and Editor's suggestion on 2022/6/2!
Press Release Nikkei Shimbun
June 17, 2022
Mr. Takashi Sakamoto (D1, Graduate School of Engineering) received 日本物理学会学生優秀発表賞 on the 77th Annual Meeting (2022) of JPS! Congratulations!
June 17, 2022
Ms. Mieko Takamura's (D2, Graduate School of Science) research activities were introduced in newspaper (Iwate Nippo)!
June 17, 2022
Mrs. Jianli Guo's (D3, Graduate School of Engineering) research was published in press release, newspaper (Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun) and other medias!
TECH+ EE Times Japan
June 17, 2022
Interview of Mr. Yingting CHEN (D3, Graduate School of Engineering) now available on YouTube!
The "Fostering Advanced Human Resources to Lead Green Transformation (GX)" project proposed by Professor Shin-ichi Ohkoshi (Project officer) has been accepted as a program for Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by Next Generation (SPRING) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) from autumn, 2021. Hereinafter this project is referred to as "SPRING GX". Approx. 1,200 doctoral students from all schools of the University of Tokyo participate in this project.
