List of the Past Award Winners

FY2024 Yoshinori Ohsumi Award for Fundamental Research Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Physics Major in Physics, School of Science	Associate Professor	Jiang Pu	Room-temperature electrically-tunable 2D material chiral light-emitting devices with near-unity efficiency and polarization
Research Center for Autonomous Systems Materialogy, Institute of Integrated Research	Specially Appointed Assistant Professor	Hiroka Sugai	Structural Analysis of Quadruplex-Forming Oligonucleotides in a Biomolecular Condensate

FY2023 Yoshinori Ohsumi Award for Fundamental Research Results

Affilitaion	Title	Name	Research topic
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Yuta Amezawa	Study of the crustal fluid distribution based on systematic waveform classification and seismic wave propagation analysis of seismic later phases
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science	Assistant Professor	Kei Tanaka	How to Form the Most Massive Stars
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Environment and Society	Associate Professor	Mai Sawada	Mechanism of wet-dry cycles-induced soil degradation based on internal stress measurements —aiming to establish future maintenance methods for earth structures—

FY2022 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

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Name of affiliation	,	name of	project
Assistant Professor,	Department of Physics, School of Science	Tatsuichi Nishihaya	Elucidation of quantum spin transport phenomena at magnetic Weyl metalloid-heterointerfaces
Eihiro Ito,	Assistant Professor	School of Life Science	of the biological significance of rare earth metalloenzymes

FY2021 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

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Name of affiliation	,	name of	project
Yohei Yamaguchi	Assistant Professor,	Department of Physics	of Higgs field phase transitions in the early universe elucidated from accelerators and low-temperature systems
School of Life Science and Technology Tetsuro	Iwata,	Assistant Professor	TechnologyElucidation of the genomic structural and physiological functions of the olfactory receptor subfamily that forms a large gene cluster
School of Life Science and Technology Lecturer of the Department of Life Science and Technology	:	Tetsu Kondo	Elucidation of the meaning of the organization of photosynthetic photoreaction systems

2020 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

research , Department of Applied Chemistry:

Name of affiliation	,	name of	project
Science School Associate Professor of Chemistry		, Kosuke OnoLewis	acidity of immobilized boroxine
School of Materials and Chemical Engineering	Takuto Soma,	Assistant Professor	Elucidation of “heavy” electrons in two-dimensional transparent superconductors
Earth-Life Science InstituteProject	Assistant	ProfessorJia Tony Z:	Origin of primitive membrane-free cells by polyester microdroplet protocells

2019 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

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Name of affiliation	,	name of	project
Science School Assistant Professor of Chemistry		Masahiro YamashinaSynthesis	of multicolor fluorescent supramolecular polymers using Janus-type molecular tweezers
Kohei Sato,	Assistant Professor	Life Science	of peptide self-assembly phenomena in “closed microspace”
School of Life Science and Technology Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science and Technology	:	Evolutionary	and Developmental Analysis of Hatching Gland Cells -Aiming to propose a new evolutionary model-
Institute of Innovative Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Chemistry and Life Sciences	:	Experimental demonstration of “superdegenerate materials” with symmetry exceeding	Takamasa

2018 Yoshinori Ohsumi Basic Research Support Results

research of , Department of Institute for Chemical and Life

Name of affiliation	,	name of	project
Science School Associate	Professor	PhysicsKiyotaka AikawaGeneration	of quantum states using single nanoparticles in a vacuum
Science School Koichiro	Ienaga,	Assistant Professor	PhysicsPub/SubDetection of vortex bose condensation by measuring the thermal response of two-dimensional superconducting thin films at cryogenic temperatures
Science School Associate Professor of Physics, Department of		PhysicsToru HiraharaBasic	surface dependence of superconductivity properties of single-layer FeSe: Toward elucidation of the origin of high-temperature superconductivity
Science School Assistant Professor of Chemistry		, Kenta MinaseDevelopment	of an experimental solution to the Schrödinger equation based on molecular video recording
Science School Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesKenji		OtaDetermination	of the melting point of iron up to geocentric pressure using X-ray CT technology
Institute of Innovative Research	Keisuke Yoshida,	Assistant Professor,	SciencesElucidation of protein oxidation mechanism that suppresses photosynthesis

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