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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 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 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.
The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) has announced that they will award Oscar Chacón the 2025 Inamori Ethics Prize.
We had the privilege of visiting Dr. Kazuya Seo of Kogakuin University of Technology & Engineering, who kindly shared insights into his research in sports engineering, a scientific discipline that studies the world of sports.
On November 14, in honor of the 2024 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, Dr. Paul F. Hoffman’s commemorative lecture was held at 21KOMCEE, the University of Tokyo. Dr. Hoffman delivered an impassioned lecture on the impact of snowball Earth on the evolution of living organisms, followed by Dr. Joseph Kirschvink, proponent of the snowball Earth...