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Guidelines for 2025 Masao Horiba Awards

Outline

The purpose of this award is to encourage and recognize scientists and engineers relatively early in their careers who are achieving distinguished results in the field of analytical science and technology. We cordially invite applications from researchers all over the world who are enthusiastically engaged in original research and development at universities or public research facilities.

2025 Guidelines (PDF)

 

Theme for the 2025 Masao Horiba Awards

Analysis and Measurement Technologies Contributing to Next-Generation Healthcare

 

Target Technial Fields

The award is focused on the following Analysis and Measurement Technologies Contributing to Next-Generation Healthcare.

  1. New Analytical and Measurement Technologies for Cells and Biomolecules Contributing to Next-Generation Healthcare.
    1. New Analytical and Measurement Technologies for Cells and Biomolecules Contributing to Next-Generation Healthcare.New analysis and measurement technologies required for cell therapy, study of immune function, and/or disease detection.This field of focus does not include physiological tests but targets In-Vitro Diagnostics.
  2. New Analytical and Measurement Technologies Related to Cells and Biomolecules Contributing to the Development and Production Processes of Biopharmaceuticals.
    1. Quality assessment and evaluation technologies required for biopharmaceutical development, as well as quality control and manufacturing process management technologies needed in the biopharmaceutical production process.

 

Eligibility of Applicant

An applicant should be a researcher or an engineer at a university or a public research facility worldwide, engaged in research and development in the field described above. The applicant should fulfill one of the following criteria:

  • The applicant is expected to achieve outstanding academic or technological inventions or discoveries in research or development in a field eligible for this award.
  • The applicant is expected to solve important academic or technological issues in the field eligible for this award.

In consideration of the purpose of this award, a paid employee of a private company at the time of application and the awards ceremony is ineligible for the award.

The potential of the applicant is taken into account and highly evaluated rather than his/her current achievement.

 

Incentive

  • Award: Winners will be awarded a certificate and a prize. Each winner receives 2 million yen (1 million yen/year for two years). Conditions of eligibility must be met continuously for two years.
  • Award Ceremony and Commemorative Seminar: To be held on Friday, October 17, 2025 at Kyoto University. (Winners will conduct discussions and visual presentations that appeal to the general public.)

 

Application for the 2025 Masao Horiba Awards

Application Procedures:

Please follow the procedure below to apply for the awards.

  1. Prepare the following documents for attachments
    1. Application Form in PDF or Word format (English)
    2. Letter of Recommendation in PDF or Word format (English)
    3. 3 Research papers in PDF (English)
  2. Submit your application online:

    Please access to the “Online Application” and submit all required document as described above

  3. Applicant and recommender’s stamp or signature are not required. However, we will send the verification email to verify you and your recommender. Please be sure that you and your recommender respond to this verification email separately. The application process will be deemed completed upon the receipt of the verification response emails from applicant and recommender. Due to this email verification process, it will take several days for us to send you the official application receipt notification.

For detailed information, please contact to the Secretariat of Masao Horiba.

 

Application Deadline

Application should be made online via this website on or before May 12,2025 (PDT).
Any applications by post or email are not acceptable.

 

Flow of Application Procedure

1Application from this website*Deadline: May 12 (PDT)
2Temporary acceptance of application
Verification of applicant and recommender's identities by email.*Upon receiving email from the Secretariat, please respond to the email at the earliest.
3Verification procedure completed
The procedure is completed when Secretariat acknowledge replies from both applicant and recommender.
4Acceptance of application

 

Winners

The winners will be decided at the end of July 2025.

Results

Applicants will be notified of the screening results by the end of July, 2025.

 

Award Ceremony and Commemorative Seminar

Award Ceremony and Commemorative Seminar: To be held on Friday, October 17, 2025 at Kyoto City. (Winners will conduct discussions and visual presentations that appeal to the general public.)