| Recipient | Affiliation / Position | Theme | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9th 2019 |
Grand Prize | Takanori Takebe | Professor, Institute of Research, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Director, Communication Design Center, Yokohama City University Director of Commercial Innovation, Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | The Promise and Impact of Organoid Medicine |
| Special Prize | Yu Hayashi | International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba | Studies on complex sleep architecture: implications of dreams & medical applications | |
| 8th 2018 |
Grand Prize | Kazuyo Moro | RIKEN Center for Integrated Biomedical Science Research Team Leader | Understanding the spread of disease through the discovery of new lymphocytes |
| Special Prize | Takahiro Sagawa | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo | Why is time unidirectional? ― The challenge of theoretical physics | |
| 7th 2017 |
Grand Prize | Shoji Takeuchi | Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo Director, Research Center for Integrated Biomedical Systems, Institute of Industrial Science and Technology | The challenge of manufacturing living things |
| Special Prize | Takao Sasagawa | Frontier Materials Research Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Institute for Science and Technology Research Institute | Pioneering the hidden powers of electrons:From bizarre insulators to superconductors | |
| 6th 2016 |
Grand Prize | Kenichiro Itami | Professor of Chemistry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Science | Creating powerful molecules |
| Special Prize | Junichi Ushiba | Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University | Use of brain-machine interfaces for treatment of the brain | |
| 5th 2015 |
Grand Prize | Naoya Shibata | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo | The world of cutting-edge electron microscopes - Direct observation of atoms and beyond - |
| Special Prize | Yasuhide Inokuma | Lecturer, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency | Determining molecular structure Development of the "Crystalline Sponge Method" | |
| 4th 2014 |
Grand Prize | Kenichi Uchida | Associate Professor, Quantum Surface Interface Science Division, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency | Discovery and clarification of the spin Seebeck effect - Thermoelectric conversion using magnetic insulators - |
| Special Prize | Noboru Mizushima | Professor of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo | The physiological significance and molecular mechanism of intracellular degradation through autophagy | |
| 3rd 2013 |
Grand Prize | Kazutoshi Takahashi | Lecturer, iPS Cell Research Institute, Kyoto University | Cell fate conversion technology and its application |
| Special Prize | Yuji Hasegawa | Associate Professor, Vienna University of Technology | The mysterious world of quantum mechanics Observation of violations of the uncertainty principle |
|
| 2nd 2012 |
Grand Prize | Norikazu Mizuochi | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University | Quantum information devices using diamond |
| Special Prize | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | |
| 1st 2011 |
Grand Prize | Hiroki Ueda | Systems Biology Research Team Team Leader, RIKEN Developmental Research Center | Biology of Time Realization of systems biology based on the internal clock model system |
| Special Prize | Ryuhei Nakamura | Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team Team Leader, RIKEN Environmental Resources Science Research Center | Creation of energy conversion systems using bacteria and mineral materials |
