JSPS Quarterly
No.32 2010 Summer Topics
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FY2009 JSPS Prize Awardees

Humanities and Social Sciences
Takanori Ida Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University “Behavioral Economic Study of Consumer Preference on Information and Health”
Masao Kashinaga Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, National Institutes for the Humanities “A Study on the Transmission of the Tai Dam Culture”
Nobuyuki Kawai Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University “Comparative Psychology on the Origin of Cognition and Learning”
Ryo Nishimura Research Fellow, The Eastern Institute “The Buddhist Thoughts in Early Modern Japan Focusing on the Scholar-Monk Fujaku 1707-1781”
Mathematics; Physical Sciences; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences
Takeo Igarashi Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo “Intuitive Design Interface for 3D Computer Graphics”
Narutaka Ozawa Associate Professor, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo “Theory of Discrete Groups and Operator Algebras”
Kazuya Kikuchi Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University “Design, Synthesis and Biological Application of Chemical Probes, Which Convert Biological Signals to Chemical Output”
Osamu Sato Professor, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University “Development of Tunable Magnetic Materials”
Masaru Shibata Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Kyoto University		 “Numerical Relativity and Its Application”
Michinori Suginome Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University “Study on New Catalytic Organic Syntheses Based on the Design of Novel Boron Reagents”
Shigeki Takeuchi Professor, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University “Realization of Quantum Information Processing and Communication Using Photons”
Shoji Takeuchi Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo “Nanobio Research Based on Microfluidic Device Technologies”
Shigeru Chiba Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology “A Programming System with Load-time Reflection”
Kenji Hata Team Leader, Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology “Research on Carbon Nanotube Syntheses and Its Applications”
Satoshi Fujii Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University “Social-science Based Engineering Research on Social Dilemmas and
Its Practice for Real World Problems”
Takuro Mochizuki Associate Professor, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University “Study on the Asymptotic Behavior of Harmonic Bundles”
Shinji Yuasai Group Leader, Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology “Development of High Performance Magnetic Tunnel Junction Devices”
Biological Sciences; Agricultural Sciences; Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Yukiko Gotoh Professor, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo “Elucidation of Signaling Molecules Regulating Cell Fate”
Hitoshi Sakakibarai Group Director, RIKEN Plant Science Center “Biosynthetic Mechanisms and a Novel Function of a Plant Hormone,
Cytokinin”
Michiko Shirane Associate Professor, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University “Regulation of Neuronal Function by Vesicular Trafficking”
Kiyoshi Takeda Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University “Regulation of Homeostasis in Intestinal Mucosal Immune System”
Kazushige Touhara Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo “Studies on Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Odorant and Pheromone Reception”
Tetsuya Higashiyama Professor, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University “Behavior and Molecular Mechanism of Plant Reproduction Commencing with Pollen Tube Guidance”
Shigeo Murata Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo “Functional Analysis of Mammalian Proteasomes and Their Diversity”
Toshihide Yamashita Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University “Molecular Mechanisms Regulating the Regeneration and Plasticity of Injured Central Nervous System”

Titles and affiliations current as of 1 January 2010

  

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