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On March 6, 2026, the Inamori Foundation announced 60 recipients for two new courses of the Inamori Research Grants: “Incubate” and “Accelerate” . The total amount of funding granted under these courses is 200 million yen.
The 2026 Kyoto Prize Symposium (KPS) will be held in San Diego, California from March 10 and 12.
The 2025 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lectures were held on November 11th at the Kyoto International Conference Center, with 1,300 attendees.
The 2025 Kyoto Prize Laureates Introduction Videos Are Now Available!
The 2025 Kyoto Prize Presentation Ceremony took place at the Kyoto International Conference Center on November 10.
Dr. Graham Farquhar, the 2017 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, and Dr. Susanne von Caemmerer were selected as recipients of the Royal Medal in the field of biological sciences.
One-Minute Introduction Video of the 2025 Kyoto Prize Laureates Released!
Dr. Azim Surani and Dr. Davor Solter were selected as recipients of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2026.
The registration for the 2025 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture has now closed, as we have reached full capacity. Thank you very much for your overwhelming interest.
On September 26 (local time), the 2025 Inamori Ethics Prize Ceremony and Lecture were held at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA).
Dr. Jane Goodall, the 1990 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, passed away on October 1 at the age of 91. She received the 1990 Kyoto Prize for demonstrating, through thirty years of continuous observation of free-living chimpanzees, that certain behaviors and abilities, once considered intrinsic only to human beings, were in fact present in...
The 2025 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lectures Registration Now Available.