2025 Inamori Research Grant Selection Committee

Chair Yoh Iwasa (Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University)

Natural Sciences

Shizuo Akira (Center Director, Center for Advanced Modalities and Drug Delivery System, Osaka University)
Ryoichiro Kageyama (Director, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research)
Kazunori Kataoka (Vice Chairperson, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion / Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Nobuo Kimizuka (Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University)
Junko Kyozuka (Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
Eisuke Nishida (Executive Director of Science, RIKEN)
Susumu Noda (Distinguished Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University)
Misao Sasaki (Project Professor, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo)
Takashi Tsuboi (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Masahito Ueda (Professor, School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
Hiroko Yamada (Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University)
Motoko Yanagita (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Hiroto Yasuura (Vice Director-General, National Institute of Informatics, Research Organization of Information and Systems)

Humanities and Social Sciences

Yuji Genda (Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)
Kumie Inose (Auditor, National Institutes for the Humanities)
Tetsuya Kono (Professor, College of Arts, Rikkyo University)
Chihara Watanabe (Professor, College of Law, Ritsumeikan University)
Shinichi Yamamuro (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)

(as of April 1, 2025)