Commemorative Lectures
"Reflections on many years of trying to understand atmospheric motion"
Prof. Sir Brian J. Hoskins
"Encounters with atmospheric gravity waves and teleconnection patterns"
Prof. John Michael Wallace
"Organ Physiology and its Transcriptional Underpinning"
Prof. Ronald M. Evans
Address by His Majesty the Emperor
2024 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
Professor, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Professor, Director of Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Address by His Majesty the Emperor
Commemorative Lectures
"Invention of semiconductor-laser pumped EDFA and future of ICT made of optical fibers" Prof. Masataka Nakazawa
"半導体レーザ励起光増幅器の開発を中心とする光ファイバ網の長距離大容量化" Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto
"Optogenetics: Causes, Connections, Mechanisms" Prof. Gero Miesenböck
"The inner workings of channelrhodopsins and nervous systems" Prof. Karl Deisseroth
2023 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
Distinguished Professor/Specially Appointed Professor, Tohoku University
Principal Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford
Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Psychiatry,
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University
Commemorative Lectures
"From Information Theory to the Information Age" Prof. Robert G. Gallager
"An Ancient DNA View of Human Origins" Dr. Svante Pääbo
"High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells: Invention, Development & Commercialisation" Prof. Martin A. Green
"Developing mRNA for therapy" Prof. Katalin Karikó
"Nucleoside Modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutics" Prof. Drew Weissman
"Nature's Role in Climate Change Solutions" Prof. Christopher Field
2022 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
Senior Vice President, BioNTech SE
Adjunct Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Professor, University of Szeged
Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director Penn Institute for RNA Innovation
Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
