Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
Tohoku University

[Venue] ONLINE – Google Meet   The 23rd FRIS Seminar “Institutional Research and Strategies for High Impact Publications” at 10:00-12:00 on 20th Aug. 2020 To regist

Deadline : April 24, 2020   Outline We invite proposals for interdisciplinary themes and subjects by young researchers for “FRIS Creative Interdisciplinary Collaboration Progra

Deadline : April 17, 2020   Outline One of the objectives of Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS) is adoption and promotion for basic research themes bey

Regarding the Covid-19 Coronavirus (For those who are participating in conferences and events)     If you are attending conferences, events, or other functions hosted by Tohoku

This event has been canceled due to various reasons. We are sorry to everyone who was looking forward to the lecture. Thank you for your understanding. The 4th FRIS-TFC Collaboration Event Wor

Deadline : April 19, 2019   Outline One of the objectives of Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS) is adoption and promotion for basic research themes bey

Deadline : April 8, 2019   Outline   One of the objectives of Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS) is adoption and promotion for basic research t

The 2nd FRIS-TFC Joint Symposium Unlocking the Brain — from Engineering Approaches Brain defines who we are. It is the most complicated system in the universe, the function of which is

After the gravitational wave detections, a wide class of modified gravity theories have been strongly constrained, and theoretical and observational understandings of dark energy should be expected mo

Frontiers in Life Science Seminar Series " Hematopoietic stem cells from human pluripotent stem cells. " We will host a seminar by Dr. Ryohichi Sugimura on April 25th (Wed). Dr

Deadline : April 20, 2018   Outline One of the objectives of Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS) is adoption and promotion for basic research themes bey

Deadline : April 6, 2018   Outline   One of the objectives of Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS) is adoption and promotion for basic research t

N-heterocycles are ubiquitous compounds widely represented in active pharmaceutical ingredients. Hence, engineered enzymes and synthetic catalysts have been developed respectively. Assist Prof. Ya

Assistant professor Joji Kusuyama at FRIS, Tohoku University, and Professor Laurie J Goodyear at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School review the effects of maternal and paternal exercise on

Tetrodotoxin (TTX), one of the most famous natural toxins, is distributed worldwide in marine and terrestrial metazoans such as pufferfish, snails, newts and frogs. Its complex chemical structure an

A team at FRIS have perfected a new heat treatment technique with rapid heating and asymmetrical cooling processes in metallic glass. This technique enabled the team to induce a gradient of local glas

Dr. Shimpei Endo has won Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2019. This  prize is awarded by Institute of Physics (IOP) to researchers who provide excellent, timely and productive reviews to  Jour

Reactions observed under the microscope: Cooperative solid and liquid catalysts make better batteries A joint team consisting of assistant professor Jiuhui Han at FRIS, Professor Pan Liu at Shang

Assistant Professor Chrystelle Bernard Wins "Best Presentation Award for Young Researcher" in ICFD2019   Assistant Professor Chrystelle Bernard, a researcher of ELyTMaX, gave an oral

Tomokatsu Onaga (The Effect of Concurrency on Epidemic Threshold in Time-Varying Networks) co-authored,   Title: The Effect of Concurrency on Epidemic Threshold in Time-Varying Networks

A scanning electrochemical cell imaging technique shows how nanoscale structural features affect the catalytic activity of MoS2 monolayers for hydrogen evolution reactions, report researchers of a j

Assistant professor Fumihiro Kaneda at FRIS, Tohoku University and Professor Paul Kwiat at University of Illinois have built the world’s most efficient single-photon source.   A singl

Jellyfish are animals that possess the unique ability to regenerate body parts. A team of Japanese scientists has now revealed the cellular mechanisms that give jellyfish these remarkable "su

As robots become more and more ubiquitous in human society, the study of their emergence becomes critical to assessing robot performance and appropriateness for different applications, and for employm