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- Center for Frontier Medicine
Program Leader: Shuh NARUMIYA, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine - The Global Center for Education and Research on Human Security Engineering for Asian Megacities
Program Leader: Yuzuru MATSUOKA, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering - Interplay of Universality and Emergence
Program Leader: Hikaru KAWAI, Professor, Graduate School of Science - Fostering Top Leaders in Mathematics — Broadening the Core and Exploring New Ground
Program Leader: Kenji FUKAYA, Professor, Graduate School of Science - Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21st Century Asia
Program Leader: Emiko OCHIAI, Professor, Graduate School of Letters - Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming — Toward a CO2 Zero-emissions Energy System —
Program Leader: Takeshi YAO, Professor, Graduate School of Energy Science - Formation of a Strategic Base for Biodiversity and Evolutionary
Research: From Genome To Ecosystem
Program Leader: Kiyokazu AGATA, Professor, Graduate School of Science - "INTEGRATED MATERIALS SCIENCE":
A New Paradigm in Chemistry and Materials Science for a New Breed of Researchers
Program Leader: Mitsuo SAWAMOTO, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering - Informatics Education and Research for a Knowledge-Circulating Society
Program Leader: Katsumi TANAKA, Professor, Graduate School of Informatics - COE for Education and Research on
"Photonics and Electronics Science and Engineering"
Program Leader: Susumu NODA, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering - In Search of a Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa
Program Leader: Kaoru SUGIHARA, Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies - Revitalizing Education for Dynamic Hearts and Minds
Program Leader: Masuo KOYASU, Professor, Graduate School of Education
- Field informatics on sea turtles, Mekong giant catfish and dugongs
Nobuaki ARAI, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Informatics - Toward the Creation of a New Portrayal of World History
Masaaki SUGIYAMA, Professor, Graduate School of Letters - The chimpanzee mind: studies in the field and the laboratory
Tetsuro MATSUZAWA, Professor, Primate Research Institute - j.Pod Developing Kyoto University intellectual property of a timber construction system supporting the consumption of local products
Masami KOBAYASHI, Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies - Front Lines of Research in Cognitive Development
Masuo KOYASU, Professor, Graduate School of Education - New approaches to public health education, research and practice
Toshitaka NAKAHARA, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine - Search for Design Solutions
Junzo MUNEMOTO, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering - Japan and the West in Meiji Art
Erika TAKASHINA, Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities - Bioinformatics for understanding cells, organisms, and the biosphere
Minoru KANEHISA, Professor and Director, Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research - Donated Chairs at Graduate School of Economics and their Future
Shuzo NISHIMURA, Professor, Graduate School of Economics - Introduction to the 21st Century COE Program
"Establishment of COE on Sustainable Energy System"
Mikio KASAHARA, Professor, Graduate School of Energy Science - Quest for Evolution of Human Sociality through Fieldwork on the Great Apes
Juichi YAMAGIWA, Professor, Graduate School of Science - Exploring minds of nonhuman relatives
Kazuo FUJITA, Professor, Graduate School of Letters - Robotics Research: Can Robots Have Human-level Manipulation Skill?
Tsuneo YOSHIKAWA, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering - Experiences of the Twentieth Century: Writing a social history of an Indonesian village through longitudinal fieldwork
Tsuyoshi KATO, Professor, Graduate school of Asian and African Area Studies - Embryonic Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine
Norio NAKATSUJI, Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences - Kanji in the Information Age
Tetsuji ATSUJI, Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies - Basis of Life Inheritance: How are chromosomes in a mother cell correctly segregated into two daughter cells?
- The Regulation of Cell Cycle and Chromosome Segregation -
Mitsuhiro YANAGIDA, Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies - Facial Expression and Gaze are the Windows to the Soul? :
Psychology of Social Perception.
Sakiko YOSHIKAWA, Professor, Graduate School of Education - Database Studies and the Infrastructure of the Knowledge Society
Yahiko KAMBAYASHI, Professor, Graduate School of Infomatics - Discovering and developing the unique functions of microorganisms and creating industrial applications for them
- How microorganisms assist us in our daily lives -
Sakayu SHIMIZU, Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture - Towards Universal Bioethics
- In search of the respect for human dignity and human rights -
Ryuichi IDA, Professor, Graduate School of Law - Frontiers of Radio Science in the Study of Space and the Earth's Atmosphere
Shoichiro FUKAO Professor, Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere - Area Studies at Kyoto University
Takeshi SHIRAISHI, Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies - Materials Science, Molecular Science, and "Elements Science"
-Creation of New Functional Materials by Synthetic Chemists-
Kohei TAMAO, Professor, Institute for Chemical Research - Life Drama, a Scenario of the Genome that Requires Adlib:
Strategy of the Immune System
Tasuku HONJO, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine