About L-INSIGHT

Staff

L-INSIGHT Staff

Fuyuki ISHIKAWA | Program Director

Vice-President (Research Support); Deputy Director-General, Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration; Director, Center for Enhancing Next-Generation Research; Program-Specific Professor; Professor Emerit. M.D., Ph.D. in Medicine, The University of Tokyo.

After serving as Research Associate at Carcinogenesis Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Research Assistant at The University of Tokyo Hospital, Post-doctoral Fellow at Thomas R. Cech Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder, Associate Professor and later Professor at Department of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Professor at Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, took the current posts.

Asa NAKANO | Curriculum Advising Mentor

Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration, Center for Enhancing Next-Generation Research, Program-Specific Associate Professor.

She is in charge of designing and creating Center’s researcher development programs (MEXT-subsidised Program for the Development of Next-generation Leading Scientists with Global Insight, L-INSIGHT), and conducting surveys through networking with policy makers and government officials particularly in EU countries. Prior to joining Kyoto University, she was selected as an emerging artist by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and worked as a first-class architect in Spain. She designed national architectural projects, and also worked as a coordinator for international projects between Japan and Spain.

Kei AYUKAWA

Sub Manager

Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration, Research Administrator
https://www.research.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/member/kei-ayukawa/

Yoshinori SUGAI

Sub Manager

Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration, Research Administrator
https://www.research.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/member/yoshinori-sugai/

Aya SAIKI

Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration, Research Administrator
https://www.research.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/member/aya-saiki/

Advisory Board

Mitsunobu KANO

Professor, Vice Executive Director, Okayama University
The Council Member, Section II: Life Sciences, Science Council of Japan (SCJ)
The Science and Technology Co-Adviser, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Shingo SHIBATA

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Managing Executive Officer/Center Executive, R&D Center

Daisuke FUJIWARA

Kirin Holdings Company Managing
Executive Officer

Yoshihiro FUJIMORI

Collaborative Education for Next-Generation Innovators & Exploration of knowledge intesections
Position: Business Manager

Tatsuya MUNAKA

Fundamental Technology Laboratory, Shimadzu Corporation
Unit Director

Takao ONOYE

Osaka University
Senior Executive Vice President

Bunri USAMI

Graduate School of Integrated Studies in Human Survival
Program-Specific Professor, Professor Emerit
Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration
Senior Advisor

Hideharu NUMATA

Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration
Program-Specific Professor, Professor Emerit, Senior Advisor

Emeritus/Emerita Mentors

* Former Affiliation at Kyoto University in parentheses

IDE Ari（Graduate School of Engineering）
OGAWA Osamu（Graduate School of Medicine）
KOIZUMI Akio（Graduate School of Medicine）
KOHSHIMA Shiro（Wildlife Research Center）
SEKIYAMA Kaoru（Shisyukan）
SEHARA Atsuko（Institute of Medical Biology)
TANAKA Koji（The Center for Southeast Asian Studies）
HASHIDA Mitsuru（Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences（WPI-iCeMS））
HIRAOKA Masahiro（Graduate School of Medicine）
YAMAGIWA Juichi（Graduate School of Science）
YODEN Shigeo（Graduate School of Science）
TANIGUCHI Kenji（Osaka University）

（Ends by FY2024）

AGATA Kiyokazu（Graduate School of Science）
OKADA Norio（Disaster Prevention Research Institute）
KAITO Akira（Graduate School of Education）
SATOU Fumihiko（Graduate School of Life Sciences）
SUGIYAMA Masahito（The Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies）
TAKARA Kaoru（The Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability ）
NAKAO Kazuwa（Graduate School of Medicine）
MASE Hajime（Disaster Prevention Research Institute）
SAKAI Yoshiharu（Graduate School of Medicine）
YOSHIKAWA Sakiko（Kokoro Research Center）