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The Inamori Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 Kyoto Prize laureates at around 15:00 (JST) on June 20. The press conference is going to be live streamed on the Kyoto Prize YouTube channel. Please join us online!
Videos of the 2024 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture Are Now Available!
The 2025 Kyoto Prize at Oxford will take place both online and in-person on May 6 and 7.
On April 19, a ceremony was held at The Prince Kyoto Takaragaike (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto) for the Inamori Research Grants, which supports researchers in the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The ceremony was followed by a social gathering for the Seiwa Scholars Society (3S), aimed at providing an opportunity for grant recipients to deepen their...
The 2025 Kyoto Prize at Oxford will take place both online and in-person on May 6 and 7.
The Kyoto Prize Symposium, featuring the three 2024 Kyoto Prize laureates, was held in San Diego, California, during March 11-13, 2025. This event has been organized since 2002 by the Kyoto Symposium Organization, a local non-profit organization, and two universities, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU).
Dr. Masaki Kashiwara, the 2018 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, was awarded the Abel Prize, which recognizes mathematicians with extraordinary achievements.
The Inamori Foundation announced the 2025 fellows for the Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program on March 14, 2025.
The Inamori Foundation announced the 50 recipients of the 2025 Inamori Research Grants on March 7, 2025. Out of 405 applicants (natural sciences: 319; humanities and social sciences: 86), 40 from the field of natural sciences and 10 from the field of humanities and social sciences were selected through the rigorous selection.
The 2025 Kyoto Prize Symposium (KPS) will be held in San Diego, California on March 12 and 13.
The Inamori Research Grants Program, which has been held annually since 1985, will introduce two new courses, "Incubate" and "Accelerate," starting from 2025. These new courses aim to expand and enrich the program.
In the series "Visiting 3S Researchers," we interview researchers in 3S who are very active in a variety of fields. The 14th interview is with Dr. Megumi Sasaki (2022 Inamori Research Grant Recipient) from Health Care Center, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.