The new SPRING GX (since April 2024) is a project involving approximately 1,307 doctoral students (including those in 4-year doctoral programs) from across the university.
April 10, 2026
A research paper by Kei Futagawa’s research group, entitled ‘Elucidation of the aragonite nanofiber formation mechanism of LICP contained in the hinge ligament of Pinctada fucata’, has been published in PNAS. Congratulations!!
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March 25, 2026
Sayoko Hanamoto has been awarded the Student Excellence in Presentation Award at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Veterinary Epidemiology for her research. Congratulations!
March 17, 2026
Yusuke Kihara has been awarded the Young Investigator Award at the 22nd Conference on Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain for his research. Congratulations!
March 13, 2026
WENG Qing has been awarded the 2025 Quantum Beam Science Festival Student Encouragement Prize for her research. Congratulations!!
March 13, 2026
Yifan Liu has been awarded a Travel Award at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society (BPS) for her research entitled ‘Development of charged nanobubble-containing media and their effects on iPSC-derived cell culture’. Congratulations!
March 11, 2026
Kanako Narita has been awarded Second Prize in the Student Paper Competition at the 2026 URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting (URSI-JRSM 2026). Congratulations!
March 11, 2026
Kohei Yamaguchi has been awarded the Excellent Student Presentation Award (ISAD2025) for his research paper entitled ‘Temporal Changes in Sauropodomorph Foot Morphology and Graviportal Adaptations Under Gigantism Inferred from Trackways’. Congratulations!
March 3, 2026
Yo Kimura has received the Best Presentation Award at the 58th Annual Musculoskeletal Tumor Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association for her research. Congratulations!
February 26, 2026
Hayato Shibahara has been awarded the Poster Prize at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Patient-Derived Cancer Models for his research. Congratulations!
February 26, 2026
Nodoka Handa presented a poster on her research topic, ‘Functional analysis of LDL3-interacting factors mediating epigenetic priming during shoot regeneration in Arabidopsis thaliana’, at the Priming, Stress & Epigenetic Memory: an integrated view from model plants to crops, EpiSeedLink International Conference 2026, and was awarded the Best Poster Award. Congratulations!
February 25, 2026
Jin Matsubayashi’s research paper, ‘Theoretical Developments of the Ostensive Aspect in Routine Dynamics’, has been published in the Akamon Management Review. Congratulations!
February 24, 2026
Suguru Hakoshima received the JSWE-METAWATER Best Paper Award at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Japan Society on Water Environment for his research entitled "Development of a Comprehensive Detection and Autoclassification Model for Microfauna Species in Microscopy Images of Activated Sludge Using Deep Learning". Congratulations!
February 24, 2026
Chihaya Koyama received the Student Presentation Prize at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Society for his research. Congratulations!
February 19, 2026
The research results of the research group to which Kotaro Shobayashi belongs have been released in the press. Congratulations!
Press Release: A 3D-printed delivery system enhances vaccine delivery via microneedle array patch
February 16, 2026
Tomoki Nakagawa received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 37th Polymer Gel Research Symposium for his research. Congratulations!
February 13, 2026
Sarina Enami received the Outstanding Young Oral Presentation Award at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science for her research. Congratulations!
February 12, 2026
Kosuke Nemoto's research paper ‘Hybrid modeling for optimizing cell cultivation in mAb production using a small-scale automated experimental platform’ has been published in the AIChE Journal. Congratulations!!
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February 12, 2026
Kosuke Nemoto has been awarded the PSE Japan 2025 Student Poster Award by the Division of Systems, Information and Simulation Technologies of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, for his research. Congratulations!
February 12, 2026
Ailing Gao's research paper "Synergistic Oxidation of Mustard Simulants by Vanadium-Substituted Polyoxomolybdate Ionic Crystals Assembled With an Aluminum Oxo-Hydroxide Cluster" has been published in ChemCatChem. Congratulations!
February 9, 2026
Jun Nomura's research paper "Development of the Japanese Version of the Emotional Abuse Questionnaire (EAQ-J)" has been published in the Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
February 5, 2026
A press release has been issued regarding the second implementation of the ESD program ‘Mori-Chara × LABO’ by Misaki Funabiki has been distributed. She participated in the program's content and research design from multiple perspectives. Congratulations!
February 4, 2026
Gao Yao's research paper "Effect of anodic polarization on morphology changes of Ni-YSZ patterned fuel electrode of solid oxide fuel cell" has been published in the Acta Materialia. Congratulations!
February 4, 2026
Gao Yao's research paper "Effect of Ni dissolution on Ni migration in solid oxide fuel cell patterned fuel electrode" has been published in the Acta Materialia. Congratulations!
February 4, 2026
Kanako Narita's research paper "ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Molecular Gas Properties of Line-emitting Galaxies from a Blind Survey" has been published in the Astrophysical Journal. Congratulations!
February 3, 2026
Toshiki Takatera presented a poster on the research theme ‘Isogeny-based threshold encryption using POKE proposed by Basso et al. at EUROCRYPT 2025’ at IWSEC2025 and was awarded the Best Poster Award. Congratulations!
February 3, 2026
Hidezo Suganuma's research paper "How social learning enhances—or undermines—efficiency and flexibility in collective decision-making under uncertainty" has been published in PNAS. Congratulations!
February 2, 2026
Junlei WANG received the Honourable Mention in the 2025 (20th) Kanji Cultural Research Encouragement Award for his research. Congratulations!
January 31, 2026
Liluxin Chai received the Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL 2025). Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Takumi Watanebe's research paper "Evolution of the Jaw Joint and Middle Ear Morphologies in the Lineage Towards Birds" has been published in Zoological Science. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Kota Oishi received the Young Investigator Award (Student Category) at the 41st Zeolite Research Symposium for his research. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Kota Oishi's research paper "Drawing boundaries between feasible and unfeasible zeolite intergrowths using high-throughput computational screening with synthesis validation" has been published in Nature Materials. Congratulations!
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January 30, 2026
Yuki Nakamoto's research paper "Local policy governance arrangements and COVID-19-related mortality in municipalities in Japan: a cross-sectional ecological study" has been published in Frontiers in Public Health. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Wenbo Huang's research paper "Changes in psychotropic medication prescription patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic among Japanese children, adolescents and young adults: interrupted time-series study using a national claims database" has been published in BJPsych Open. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Mao Kobayashi (Sakashita)'s research paper "Alarm pheromone activates posterior medial amygdala-to-bed nucleus of the stria terminalis projections in male rats" has been published in Neuroscience. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Shusuke Ito's research paper ‘Benchmarking Universal Interatomic Potentials on Zeolite’ has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!
January 25, 2026
Nozomi Kakinuma's research paper ‘Dust and Cloud Transport by Traveling Waves in the Martian Atmosphere Studied With Mars Climate Sounder’ has been published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Congratulations!
January 19, 2026
Sun Hanyu's research paper ‘Sharp subthreshold switching in interface-modified organic electrochemical transistors for millivolt-level signal sensing’ has been published in npj Soft Matter. Congratulations!
January 19, 2026
Tetsuji Kato's research paper ‘Energy exchange between electrons and ions driven by ITG–TEM turbulence’ has been selected as a Featured Article in Physics of Plasmas. Congratulations!
January 16, 2026
Yoji Okabe has received the Best Talk Prize for his research entitled "Potential for Photosymbiosis: Algal Survival and Acclimation in Fish Embryos" at the Symposium of the International Society of Endocytobiology 2025. Congratulations!
January 15, 2026
Gaku Kinoshita's research paper “Spatiotemporal Evolution of the 2022 March Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Revealed by Multipoint Observations of Forbush Decreases” has been published in the Astrophysical Journal. Congratulations!
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January 7, 2026
Zhengyu SU's research paper “Ring-opening graft polymerization of poly(p-dioxanone) from α-1,3-glucan for high-strength, thermoplastic, marine biodegradable materials” has been published in Polymer Degradation and Stability. Congratulations!
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". 1,315 doctoral students from all schools of the University of Tokyo participate in this project.
