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Representative Awards and Honors
18)Kyoto University SPIRIT2 Award 2026, Kyoto University.
17)JSPS HOPE Fellow, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
16)ChemCatChem/Advanced Chemical Engineering Award, CRE2026.
15)IUPAB Poster Prize, The 12th Asian Biophysics Association Symposium.
14)MUSUBIME Referee Award, Kyoto University.
13)Early Career Presentation Award, the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, 2025.
12)Leave A Nest Life Science Award, Leave a Nest Co., Ltd, 2025.
11)Best Presentation Award, the Biophysical Society of Japan pre-conference festival, 2025.
10)Young Investigator Award, the Biophysical Society of Japan Chugoku-Shikoku Branch, 2025.
9)CEMS Rising Star Award in CEMSupra 2024, CEMSpura(RIKEN), 2024.
8)MBSJ2023 Best Science Pitch Award, the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, 2023.
7)Excellent Poster Award, 63th summer school of biophysics, 2023.
6)Best young discusser award, the 7th conference of molecular robotics, 2016.
5)The international Genetically Engineered Machine Competition Gold Prize, iGEM, 2012.
4)The international Genetically Engineered Machine Competition Sliver Prize, iGEM, 2011.
3)Silver Medal on JBO 2009, Japanese Biology Olympiad, 2009.
2)A finalist of IBO delegates at 2009, Japanese Biology Olympiad, 2009.
1)Bronze Medal on JBO 2008, Japanese Biology Olympiad, 2008.
Representative Grants
12.2025-2026
Research Grant from Kyoto University
“The development of a droplet dynamics simulator by the whole search of interactions between amino acids and pharmaceutical applications”
650,000 JPY.
11.2025-2026
Research Grant from Tobe-Maki Foundation
“Build up a simulator for protein liquid-liquid phase separation based on the power-of-will for unit calculation”
1,000,000 JPY.
10.2022-2025
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 22K14573
“Cutting-edge micelle material for stabilization of antibody drugs solutions at room temperature”
4,550,000 JPY.
9.2023-2024
Research Grant from Harmonic Ito Foundation
“Activation of RuBisCO with butterfly-shaped gold nanodevice”,
1,500,000 JPY.
8.2022-2024
Research Grant from Tsugawa Foundation
“Theoretical study of next-generation nanoscale motor composed of endohedral long fullerenes”,
1,000,000 JPY.
7.2021-2024
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 21K07697.
“Enhancement of radiation-induced cancer cell death using active targetting gold nanoparticles”,
100,000 JPY.
6.2021-2024
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 21J00852.
“Activation methodology of RuBisCO based on material and droplets formed by liquid-liquid phase separation”,
4,810,000 JPY.
5.2023
Research Donation from Kyokanzai
“Anti-magnetic nanoparticle development”,
1,000,000 JPY.
4.2021-2022
Research Grant from Tsugawa Foundation
“Theoretical research of advanced nanoscale motor composed of
lithium endohedral fullerene”
500,000 JPY.
3.2021-2022
Research Grant from Iketani Science and Technology Foundation
“Development of thermal-buffer micelle materials made of oleic acid and their application toward long-term stabilization of antibody at room temperature”
1,500,000 JPY.
2.2019-2021
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 19J14903.
“Special control methodology of small nanostructures within and without a living cell”
2,100,000 JPY.
1.2016-2017
Student Projects for Enhancing Creativity (SPEC) from Kyoto University
“One Cell Scale Surgery by using Nano-explosive: A new concept for drug delivery system”,
500,000 JPY.