Homepage Updates Due to Organizational Changes
Project CHANGE (JST COI-NEXT Kawasaki Hub) has advanced to Phase 2 following its third-year interim review. The organizational structure is designed to promote synergistic collaboration among research and development projects, ensuring a smooth progression from basic research through demonstration studies to societal implementation. Each project has two sub-leaders, one of whom is a young researcher, thereby fostering the development of the next generation of talent.
In conjunction with this, the following personnel appointments have been announced for iCONM, the core institution of this hub.
4/1 Dr. Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Deputy Research Director and Principal Research scientist (Head of the Nishiyama Lab) / Leader of CHANGE R&D Theme 2
Professor at the Institute of Chemical and Life Sciences, Institute of Science Tokyo (concurrent position)
4/1 Dr. Gojiro Nakagami, Principal Reaearch Scientist (Head of the Nursing Engineering Lab) / Leader of CHANGE R&D Theme 1
Professor of the Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo (Concurrent Position)
4/1 Dr. Akira Matsumoto Principal Research Scientist / Sub-Leader of CHANGE R&D Theme 1
Professor, Institute of Biomaterials Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo (Concurrent Position)
4/16 Dr. Yukihiro Kanda Senior Research Scientist / Sub-Leader of CHANGE R&D Theme 3
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Concurrent Position)