In fiscal 2022
research grants were provided for 4 projects on “manufacturing” themes and 9 projects on “fundamental research” themes, for a total of 13 grants from among 210 applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takuya Kitaoka | Professor, Department of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University | Development of Bioadaptive Cell Culture Scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine Inspired by the Nanoarchitectures of Natural Polysaccharide Nanofibers |
| Liu Hao | Professor Director, Center for Aerial Intelligent Vehicles (CAIV) Chiba University, Graduate School of Engineering |
Biomimetic design of wind gust-rejected insect-inspired drones |
| MURATA TAKAHISA | Associate Professor,Graduate school of agricultural and life science, The University of Tokyo | Development and application of new lipid synthesis methods inspired by fish intestine |
| SAITO Akira | Associate Professor,Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University | Realization of “Bright, Wide-Spread, and Color-Dispersion Free” Transmissive Optical Materials learning from Butterfly, Moth, and Plants |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ENOMOTO Yukiko | Associate Professor, Department of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences,The University of Tokyo | Biodegradable aromatic plastics inspired by biodegradation mechanism of wood |
| Hiruma Kei | Assistant Professor,Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo | Toward development of a method to reduce chemical fertilizers in agricultural field by utilizing plant-associated beneficial fungi |
| Yusuke V. Morimoto | Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering,Kyushu Institute of Technology | Highly efficient energy conversion system driven by bacteria |
| Ryo Ariizumi | Assistant Professor,Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University | Automatic Robot Design Inspired by Evolutions and Developments of Vertebrates |
| Ryo Yoshida | Professor,School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Self-oscillating softmaterials learning from autonomous motion and function of cell, tissue and organ |
| Kazunori Sugiyasu | Professor,Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University | Creation of supramolecular plastics inspired by silkworm |
| Nobuhide DOI | Professor,Keio University | Development of Drug Delivery System inspired by Fertilization |
| Takeshi Onuma | Associate Professor,Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University | Designing houses with fibre-based folding structures, lessons from the larvacean, Oikopleura dioica. |
| Ikkyu Aihara | Assistant Professor,Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba | Autonomous distributed communication system inspired by selective attention in frog choruses |