Past grant research themes
Manufacturing Theme
| Name | Affiliated institution Position (Affiliations, positions, and so forth are those at the time of receiving the grant award) |
Grant-Receiving Research Theme |
|---|---|---|
| Tetsuo Morita | Professor, Maebashi Institute of Technology | A Study on Compact City Planning for the preparation of the Next Large-Scale Disaster: Learning from Natural Disasters and the Local History |
| Hiroshi Yabu | Junior Principal Investigator (Associate Professor),WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University | Creation of Catalytic Carbon Materials Inspired by Marine Biology |
| Hisashi Yamamoto | Professor・Director,Chubu University Institute of Science and Technology Research |
Development new peptide synthesis |
| Nobuo Kimizuka | Professor,Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University | Photon upconverting molecular systems inspired by thylakoid membrane |
| Takuji Koike | Professor, Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications | Development of pest control and crop cultivation method utilizing vibration response of organisms: Towards sustainable agriculture with environmentally friendly technology using vibration |
| Tetsushi TAGUCHI | Group Leader,Biomaterials Field, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | Design of surgical adhesives learned from the denaturation behavior of collagens of organisms living in different temperatures |
Fundamental Research Theme
| Name | Affiliated institution Position (Affiliations, positions, and so forth are those at the time of receiving the grant award) |
Grant-Receiving Research Theme |
|---|---|---|
| Midori A. Arai | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University | Innovation of immunosuppressants inspired by invasive evolution of pathogenic microorganism |
| Norikazu Ichihashi | Professor, Komaba Institute of Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo | A new method for directed evolution of enzymes based on artificial cells |
| Muneyuki Matsuo | Project Researcher,Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, National Institutes of Nature Science | Development of Self-organizing Soft Materials Inspired from Intracellular Liquid-liquid Phase Separation |
| Shunsuke Shigaki | Assistant Professor,Department of System Innovation, Osaka University | Construction of spatial cognition system using olfactory sense learned from active sensing of insect |
| Shigeru Kondo | Professor,Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences Osaka University | Finding a new modeling technology by applying the principle that lobster transforms from flat larva to three-dimensional shrimp. |
| Kenjiro TADAKUMA | Assistant Professor, Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center, Tohoku University | Research and development of a super exhaustive deployable robotic hand mechanism that learns from the ejection proboscis of nemertea |