Title list by research areas [Research Profiles 2025]

• Life science
• Telecommunications
• Nanotechnologies / Materials
• Energy
• Manufacturing technologies
• Social innovation

Life science

• Development of innovative cancer vaccines (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Associate Professor Yoshiyuki Manabe; Headquarter, Executive Vice President Koichi Fukase)
• Immune activating factor from fermented foods: Chemical synthesis and function of acetic acid bacterial lipid A (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Associate Professor Atsushi Shimoyama; Headquarter, Executive Vice President Koichi Fukase)
• How do plants form a single layer of epidermis on the surface of leaves? (Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Ph.D Student (Current affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki) Hiroyuki Iida; Assistant Professor Shinobu Takada)
• Molecular mechanisms of gross chromosomal rearrangements (Department of Biological Sciences / Forefront Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Associate Professor Takuro Nakagawa)
• AI-driven robotics manipulators for lab automation (Department of System Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Associate Professor Weiwei Wan)
• Manufacturing, quality control and supply of high-quality virus vectors for gene therapy (Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor Susumu Uchiyama)
• Raman microscopy for label-free imaging and analysis of frozen cells (Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor Katsumasa Fujita; Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Associate Professor Yasuaki Kumamoto; Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Specially Appointed Associate Professor Masahito Yamanaka)
• Synthetic small molecules for photocontrol of RNA structure and function (Department of Regulatory Bioorganic Chemistry, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Associate Professor Chikara Dohno)
• Fine organic synthesis using non-polluting and inexhaustible solar energy (Department of Data-Driven Synthetic Organic Chemistry for Medicinal and Material Applications, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Professor Shinobu Takizawa; Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Mohamed S. H. Salem)
• Creation of “3D thick cardiac tissue” for the treatment of heart failure (Photonics Cell Evaluation Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Specially Appointed Professor Li Liu; Specially Appointed Associate Professor Junjun Li; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Shigeru Miyagawa)
• Creation and evaluation of real-world evidence based on the NDB (National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan) (Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Specially Appointed Associate Professor Makoto Fujii; Specially Appointed Researcher Asuka Ikeda; Professor Mai Kabayama)
• Novel medical development for early-stage lung cancer focusing on macrophages (Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor Takahiro Matsui; Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Masaru Ishii)
• Single-cell multi-omics analysis identifies two distinct phenotypes of newly-onset microscopic polyangiitis (Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Masayuki Nishide; Professor Atsushi Kumanogoh)
• Galectin-10 in serum extracellular vesicles reflects asthma pathophysiology (Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor Yoshito Takeda; Attending Staff (Physician) Hanako Yoshimura; Professor Atsushi Kumanogoh)
• Identification of tissue-resident memory T cells with pathogenic potency of Crohn's disease (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant Professor Mari Murakami; Professor Kiyoshi Takeda)
• Stagnation of autophagy as a driver of kidney disease progression in aging and obesity (Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Takeshi Yamamoto; Professor Yoshitaka Isaka)
• Role of repulsive guidance molecule A in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor Tatsusada Okuno; Professor Hideki Mochizuki; Molecular Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Toshihide Yamashita)
• The tight junction protein occludin modulates blood–brain barrier integrity and neurological function after ischemic stroke in mice (StemRIM Institute of Regeneration-Inducing Medicine / Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Specially Appointed Professor Tsutomu Sasaki; Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Hideki Mochizuki)
• Development of prophylactic therapies and risk biomarkers for liver cancer in chronic liver disease (Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Hayato Hikita; Professor Tetsuo Takehara)
• Completion of a detailed "single cell map" of pancreatic cancer tissue and its application in drug discovery (Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Hidetoshi Eguchi; Associate Professor Shogo Kobayashi; Department of Medical Data Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Specially Appointed Professor Hideshi Ishii)
• The significance of peritumoral tertiary lymphoid structures in predicting prognosis and immunotherapy efficacy in esophageal cancer (Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Visiting Academic Staff Yoshinori Hayashi; Associate Professor (Lecturer) Tomoki Makino; Professor Yuichiro Doki)
• Personalized ventilatory strategy for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant Professor Hiroki Taenaka; Professor Takeshi Yoshida)
• Elucidation of pathological mechanism and therapeutic development using human disease model recapitulating inherited cardiomyopathy (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Shuichiro Higo)
• Theranostics targeting glypican-1 in pancreatic cancer (Department of Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor Tadashi Watabe)
• Identification of the ovarian cancer cell subpopulation that contributes to therapeutic agents resistance (Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant Professor Kansuke Kido; Associate Professor Satoshi Nojima; Professor Eiichi Morii)
• R-spondin 3/LGR4 (Leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 4) axis is a novel inflammatory and neurite outgrowth signaling system in the ischemic brain in mice (Department of Gene & Stem Cell Regenerative Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Endowed Chair Professor Munehisa Shimamura)
• Development and application of innovative oxidation reaction control technology using safe oxidizing agents (Division of Advance Pharmaco-Science, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Professor Tsuyoshi Inoue; Associate Professor Haruyasu Asahara; JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Specially Appointed Professor Keiichi Namba)
• Development of drugs for severe infectious diseases by targeting vascular permeability (Laboratory of Clinical Science and Biomedicine, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Professor Yoshiaki Okada)
• Health effect of nanomaterial for vulnerable generations, focusing on placental toxicity (Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies, Associate Professor Kazuma Higashisaka; Laboratory of Toxicology and Safety Science, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor Yasuo Tsustumi)
• A new technology for intracellular uptake of oligonucleotide therapeutics into cancer cells- A novel TRPC3/TRPC6 (Transient Receptor Potential C3/C6) channel selective activator L687 induces cellular uptake of antisense oligonucleotides - (Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor Satoshi Obika; Associate Professor (Current affiliation: Guest Associate Professor, MEXT) Masahito Shimojo; Specially Appointed Associate Professor Ryu Nagata)
• Metabolic traits of Fusobacterium nucleatum enhancing nutritional synergy in oral biofilms and their impact on periodontal disease (Department of Preventive Dentistry, Graduate School of Dentistry, Associate Professor Akito Sakanaka; Professor Masae Kuboniwa)
• Novel vital pulp treatment to overcome pulpitis (Dental Hospital, Associate Professor Yusuke Takahashi; Restorative Dentistry and Endodontology, Graduate School of Dentistry, Professor Mikako Hayashi)
• Identification of a protein that regulates sperm acrosome reaction (Department of Experimental Genome Research, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Associate Professor Haruhiko Miyata; Professor Masahito Ikawa)
• Understanding the molecular basis governing the sex difference in health-span and identifying anti-aging medicine (Department of Homeostatic Regulation, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Professor Tohru Ishitani)
• Single cell analysis of human infection responses (Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Human Single Cell Immunology Team, Professor James Badger Wing)
• ACIDES: Technological innovation in protein screening analysis algorithms (Premium Research Institute for Human Metaverse Medicine (WPI-PRIMe), Specially Appointed Associate Professor Takahiro Nemoto)
• Efficient adjuvant-free intranasal vaccine platform that harnesses previously induced immunity (Vaccine Creation Group, BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Specially Appointed Professor Yasuo Yoshioka)
• Neural mechanisms of self-generated thoughts elucidated by human intracranial EEG (Department of Neuroinformatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Takufumi Yanagisawa; Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Specially Appointed Researcher Takamitsu Iwata)
• Neonatal skin microbiome dysbiosis and infantile atopic dermatitis: The role of early skin care (Cutaneous Allergy and Host Defense, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Professor Yumi Matsuoka)
• Development of a machine learning model for high-performance prediction of lifestyle-related disease risk using medical big data (Health and Counseling Center, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Asuka Oyama; Visiting Researcher Hiroe Seto; Professor Ryohei Yamamoto)

Telecommunications

• Low-rank computing models of spatial photonic Ising machines (Department of Information and Physical Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Professor Hideyuki Suzuki)
• Development of an automated synthetic dataset generation method for realistic fictional cities (Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Tomohiro Fukuda)
• Calibrating confidence in predictions by machine learning models (D3 Center, Associate Professor Hideaki Hayashi)

Nanotechnologies / Materials

• Organic crystal melts under light with luminescence evolution (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Assistant Professor Yosuke Tani; Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Assistant Professor Hikaru Soutome)
• Beyond precious metals: Redefining catalysis with ubiquitous metals (Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Associate Professor Takato Mitsudome)
• Development of stimuli-responsive molecular network crystal capable of retaining single crystallinity in photoisomerization (Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Professor Ichiro Hisaki)
• Stimuli-responsive modulation of short-wave infrared-light transparency using a liquescent radical anion (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Associate Professor Shuichi Suzuki)
• Quantum teleportation in spin liquid – Toward the realization of topological quantum computation (Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Professor Satoshi Fujimoto; Ph.D Student Masahiro Takahashi; Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Current affiliation: Project Lecturer, The University of Tokyo) Masahiko Yamada)
• Discovery of superconductivity in topological semimetal with ferroelectric structural phase transition (Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Associate Professor (Lecturer) Hidefumi Takahashi)
• Development of memristor devices operable under harsh environments (Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Professor Akira Sakai)
• Developing quantum algorithms for materials simulation (Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science / Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology, Associate Professor Kosuke Mitarai)
• New methodology of thermoelectric performance enhancement by two-dimensional electron gas (Department of System Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Professor Yoshiaki Nakamura; Assistant Professor Takafumi Ishibe)
• Highly efficient and low-power consumption spin injection technology into next-generation high-performance semiconductors (Center for Spintronics Research Network, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Associate Professor Shinya Yamada)
• Elastic polymer coated nanoparticles with fast clearance for 19F MR imaging (Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor Kazuya Kikuchi; Associate Professor Masafumi Minoshima)
• Controlled degradation of chemically stable polymers via directing group-assisted catalysis (Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor Mamoru Tobisu)
• Aromatic halogenation using carborane catalyst (Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Yuji Nishii)
• Development of dynamically crosslinked composite hydrogel sensor with efficient self-healing and adhesive properties (Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Yu-I Hsu)
• Photo/electrochemical CO2 insertion into unreactive organic molecules (Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering , Assistant Professor Yutaka Saga)
• Visualizing ions through the power of boron (Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Youhei Takeda)
• Development of organic molecular crystals exhibiting both low and high dielectric properties by changing the crystallization solvent (Division of Applied Chmeistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Yumi Yakiyama)
• Growth of long, aligned carbon nanotubes using nanodiamond as a growth seed (Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Ph.D Student Yuanjia Liu; Assistant Professor Taiki Inoue; Professor Yoshihiro Kobayashi)
• Tip-activated single-atom catalysis: CO oxidation on Au adatom on oxidized rutile TiO2 surface (Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Yanjun Li)
• Custom design of self catalytic reactors using metal 3D printers (Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Kohsuke Mori)
• Electrocatalytic CO2 valorization using nanostructured carbon catalysts (Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Yasutaka Kuwahara)
• Prediction of solute element segregations in additive manufactured nickel-based superalloy (Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Assistant Professor Masayuki Okugawa)
• Fabrication of elastic carbon aerogels from crab-shell-derived nanochitin for smart microwave absorption (Department of Functionalized Natural Materials, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Associate Professor Hirotaka Koga)
• “Return to the soil” circular soil moisture sensors (Department of Functionalized Natural Materials, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Assistant Professor Takaaki Kasuga)
• Developing the intercalation chemistry of alkali metals and molybdenum chloride in bilayer graphene system and its applications to the energy storage materials (Department of Nanocharacterization for Nanostructures and Functions, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Assistant Professor Qiunan Liu; Professor Kazutomo Suenaga)
• Development of colorless organic semiconducting materials response to NIR light (Department of Soft Nanomaterials, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Assistant Professor Soichi Yokoyama; Professor Yutaka Ie)
• Development of silver-silicon composite paste sinter joining to achieve high reliability and low material cost for next-generation power semiconductors (SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Flexible 3D Systemintegration Laboratory, Specially Appointed Associate Professor Chuantong Chen; Specially Appointed Professor Katsuaki Suganuma)
• Additively manufactured Ti-Zr alloys with gyroid lattice structures (Joining and Welding Research Institute, Professor Katsuyoshi Kondoh; Assistant Professor Ammarueda Issariyapat)
• Metal-free photocatalytic systems for trifluoromethylation and oxygenation of aromatic compounds (Division of Innovative Research for Drug Development, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Professor Kei Ohkubo)

Energy

• Biomanufacturing using abiotically synthesized non-natural sugars (Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Professor Shuji Nakanishi; Specially Appointed Researcher Hiro Tabata)
• Large-scale building-integrated photovoltaics installation on building facades (Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor Yohei Yamaguchi; Ph.D Student Keita Shono)
• Blue energy harvesting on ultra-thin nanopore membranes (Department of Bio-Nanotechnology, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Associate Professor Makusu Tsutsui)

Manufacturing technologies

• Energy management of HVAC systems and its implementation (Information Systems Synthesis Lab, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Dafang Zhao; Associate Professor Ittetsu Taniguchi)
• New technology for maneuverable and efficient walking of multi-legged robots using instability (Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Professor Shinya Aoi)
• Extreme focusing of X-ray free-electron laser using ultra-precise mirror optics (Research Center for Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Assistant Professor Jumpei Yamada)
• Co-creation of advanced materials and sensor systems toward regional smart cities (Department of Advanced Materials and Implementations, SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), Associate Professor Teppei Araki; Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Takaaki Abe)
• Influencing mechanisms of melt behavior on metal vapor characteristic and columnar grain formation in wire-arc directed energy deposition of titanium alloy (Department of Energy Control of Processing, Joining and Welding Research Institute, Assistant Professor Dongsheng Wu; Associate Professor (Lecturer) Hisaya Komen)

Social innovation

• How to promote public acceptance of science and technology with uncertainty: A behavioral economics approach (Behavioral Public Policy Team, Division of Scientific Information and Public Policy, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Specially Appointed Associate Professor Shusaku Sasaki)
• From global health to Planetary Well-Being: Conceptual arrangement and future exploration (Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Sciences (CELAS), Professor Sayako Kanamori)
• Rethinking macroeconomics through experimental analyses (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Research Center for Behavioral Economics, Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki)
• Toward a more comprehensive understanding of signaling behavior (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Professor Junichiro Ishida)
• Promoting human capital management through the development of psychological capital (Graduate School of Economics, Professor Hiroya Hirakimoto)
• Multidisciplinary disaster prevention approach from gigantic natural disasters (Graduate School of Human Sciences / Research center for Behavioral Economics / Institute for Radiation Sciences, Associate Professor Megumi Sugimoto)
• Various aspects of creative memory and information processing in the humanities, visual arts and natural sciences during the Western European Renaissance (Division of Arts Studies, Graduate School of Humanities, Professor Koji Kuwakino)
• Comprehensive study on education and assessment for culturally linguistically diverse children (Division of Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Humanities, Associate Professor Chiho Sakurai)

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