Nomination Information
＜Kazato Research Encouragement Prize＞
The Kazato Research Encouragement Prize is awarded to young researchers with high potential and substantial achievements, who offer excellent proposals for research and development of electron microscopes and related instruments or research using these instruments (medical science, biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, and others).
1. Regulations of Application
| Application qualifications | The applicants must be Japanese citizen researchers, or foreign nationality residing in Japan and conducting research at Japanese research institution、in principle, up to age 37(as of the application deadline). Researchers who have suspended their research activities due to life events such as childbirth or childcare may be considered for the upper age limit, so please consult with the secretariat. |
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| Number of Prizes and research grants |
Prizes will be presented to up to 4 persons (one is a materials scientist and the other is a biological scientist) with a research grant of 2,000,000 yen to individuals based on the selection results by the Selection Committee. |
| Application deadline | Must arrive by Monday, December 1, 2025. |
| Selection results | Applicants will be notified in early February of 2026. |
| Award ceremony | Scheduled to be held on Saturday, March 7, 2026. Prize winners are requested to attend. |
| Prize lecture meeting | Prize winners will be asked to present their research findings at a lecture meeting held by our foundation. |
| Application form | Please download from the button below. |
2. Research Grants
Total of 8,000,000 yen
3. Required Documents
Applicants are requested to send the following materials by registered mail.(Application materials will not be returned.)
- Kazato Research Encouragement Prize application form
- 9 reprints each of the 3 most important study papers.
*Please send the above in hard copy by post as well as in soft copy to the secretariat's email address.
4. Study papers supported by this grant should mention the prize of the Kazato Research Foundation in the Acknowledgements.
5. In principle, this research fund shall be used for 2 years from the next fiscal year. Recipients of this award are asked to provide accounting reports on the research expenses as well as the research results by the specified period.
6. Past winners are not eligible for selection.
7. If it is found that continuing the research is impossible, or if it is found that the content of the research is significantly different from the content of the application, we may ask for interruption of the grant.
Last Update: Jul. 11, 2025
