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World Premier International Research Center (WPI) Initiative

10 Year Commemoration of the WPI Program

■ Contents


― Front cover
P1 Title page
P2-3

Table of contents
 

Message
P4-5

On the 10th anniversary of the WPI Program by Hiroo Imura
P6

WPI and the revitalization of research in Japan by Yayoi Komatsu
P7 Creating outstanding knowledge through the WPI Program by Yuichiro Anzai
P8-9

How the WPI Program was born by Hiroshi Ikukawa

 

The Objectives, Systems and History of the WPI Program:

P10-29

Creating world top-level research centers by Toshio Kuroki and Akira Ukawa

 

Effort and Achievement in Each Research Center:

P30-37

AIMR: Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
P38-45

Kavli IPMU: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo
P46-53

iCeMS: Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University

P54-61

IFReC: Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University
P62-69

MANA: International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science

P70-75 I2CNER: International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University
P76-81

IIIS: International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba

P82-87

ELSI: Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
P88-93

ITbM: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University

 

Message
P94-95 Further development of the WPI Program by Ryoji Noyori
   

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 Back cover
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           Follow-up　　　　　　　　　　　　Major honors and awards　　　　　　　　　 Contribution to society