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| Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology | |
|---|---|
| Name | Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology |
| Established | 1991 |
| Location | Tokyo, Japan |
| Parent institution | The University of Tokyo |
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology is an interdisciplinary research institute based at The University of Tokyo in Tokyo. Founded to foster cross-disciplinary innovation, it connects researchers from Japan Science and Technology Agency, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, RIKEN, Keio University, and Osaka University to pursue advanced projects in science and technology. The center hosts collaborations with international institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and Max Planck Society.
The center was established in 1991 following policy initiatives linked to Science and Technology Basic Law and the reorganization of The University of Tokyo's research structure, influenced by figures associated with Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Nobel Prize laureates, and leaders from Sony Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Hitachi. Early partnerships included memoranda with MIT Media Lab, Harvard University, CNRS, Fraunhofer Society, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. The center's development paralleled projects at Takasaki, Tsukuba Science City, and initiatives inspired by Sakakibara Prize recipients, alongside advisory input from researchers connected to Kyoto University, Tohoku University, Nagoya University, and Hokkaido University.
Governance follows statutes aligned with The University of Tokyo's regulations, overseen by a board including members from Japan Science and Technology Agency, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), and external advisors from Academia Sinica, European Research Council, and corporate partners like Panasonic, Fujitsu, Sony, NEC Corporation, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Leadership appointments are made in consultation with deans from Graduate School of Engineering (The University of Tokyo), Graduate School of Medicine (The University of Tokyo), and directors from institutes such as RIKEN and National Institute for Materials Science. Internal units report to an executive committee modeled after governance practices at Imperial College London and University of California, Berkeley.
Research spans institutes focusing on robotics, materials science, information technology, life sciences, and environmental systems, interacting with centers like Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (The University of Tokyo), Institute of Industrial Science (The University of Tokyo), and Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S). Projects intersect themes pursued by DeepMind, OpenAI, NVIDIA Research, IBM Research, and Microsoft Research. Key institutes within the center align with domains prominent at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Broad Institute, Salk Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Facilities include cleanrooms comparable to those at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, microscopy suites similar to EMBL, high-performance computing clusters akin to RIKEN R-CCS, and fabrication labs reflecting capabilities at CERN and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The center maintains instrumentation linked to manufacturers like JEOL, Hitachi High-Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and collaborates with infrastructures such as SPring-8, J-PARC, SuperKEKB, and K computer-era resources. Libraries and data repositories are coordinated with The University of Tokyo Library and international archives including PubMed Central, arXiv, IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, and Scopus.
Partnerships encompass domestic and international universities, national laboratories, and industry: Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tohoku University, RIKEN, JAXA, Japan Meteorological Agency, Toshiba, Canon Inc., Sumitomo Chemical, BASF, Dow Chemical Company, Shell, TotalEnergies, European Organization for Nuclear Research, NASA, European Space Agency, National Institutes of Health, and Wellcome Trust. Research consortia include joint initiatives with EU Horizon 2020, Japan-UK Science and Innovation Network, US National Science Foundation, and bilateral programs with China Academy of Sciences and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
The center runs graduate and postdoctoral training in partnership with Graduate School of Engineering (The University of Tokyo), Graduate School of Science (The University of Tokyo), and professional programs inspired by models at MIT, Stanford University, Imperial College London, and ETH Zurich. Programs include collaborative supervision with faculty affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and University of California, San Francisco. Trainees benefit from exchange agreements with Erasmus Mundus, Fulbright Program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and internship routes to companies like Google, Apple Inc., Facebook (Meta Platforms), Siemens, and IBM.
Notable outputs include advances in robotics showcased alongside work from Honda Motor Company's ASIMO teams, breakthroughs in nanomaterials paralleling studies at Rice University and MIT, bioinformatics contributions comparable to Broad Institute outputs, and environmental modeling integrated with IPCC assessments. The center's scholars have published in journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Physical Review Letters, and The Lancet, and received honors connected to Nobel Prize, Breakthrough Prize, Japan Prize, Lasker Award, and Royal Society fellowships. Collaborative projects have contributed to facilities like SPring-8 upgrades, supported missions with JAXA Hayabusa2 teams, and partnered on initiatives with CERN experiments and ITER-related research.
Category:Research institutes in Japan Category:The University of Tokyo