Members of the 2023 Kyoto Prize Selection Organization

(as of June 1, 2023)

Kyoto Prize Executive Committee

Chair Hiroyuki Sakaki (Chairman, Nara National Institute of Higher Education and Research)
Shizuo Akira (Center Director, Center for Advanced Modalities and Drug Delivery System, Osaka University)
Seiji Choki (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Yoh Iwasa (Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University)
Shigefumi Mori (Director-General and Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study)
Masanori Murakami (Senior Research Fellow, Ritsumeikan University)
Shuh Narumiya (Director, Medical Innovation Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Eriko Osaka (Director General, The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Kiyokazu Washida (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University)

Kyoto Prize Committee

Advanced Technology

Chair Shizuo Akira (Center Director, Center for Advanced Modalities and Drug Delivery System, Osaka University)
Masatoshi Hagiwara (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Ryoichiro Kageyama (Director, RIKEN Center for Brain Science)
Ryozo Nagai (President, Jichi Medical University)
Kazuo Shinozaki (Senior Advisor, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science)
Asako Sugimoto (Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
Hiroki R. Ueda (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
Masayuki Yamamoto (Executive Director, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University)

Basic Sciences

Chair Shigefumi Mori (Director-General and Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study)
Hiroshi Kokubu (Executive Vice-President and Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Motoko Kotani (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University)
Takashi Kumagai (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
Kazuo Murota (Project Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Hisashi Okamoto (Professor, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University)
Kaoru Ono (Professor, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Takeshi Saito (Professor, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

Arts and Philosophy

Chair Eriko Osaka (Director General, The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Michiko Kasahara (Deputy Director, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation)
Mika Kuraya (Director, Yokohama Museum of Art)
Hiroshi Matsukuma (Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Building Engineering, Kanagawa University)
Tohru Matsumoto (Director, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum)
Yoshiaki Nishino (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Atsuhiko Shima (Director, The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Akira Tatehata (Director, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama)

Kyoto Prize Selection Committee

Advanced Technology

Chair Masatoshi Hagiwara (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Haruhiko Bito (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
Itaru Hamachi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
Nobuya Inagaki (Board Chairman, Medical Research Institute KITANO HOSPITAL, PIIF Tazuke-kofukai)
Yukinori Okada (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
Ichiro Sakuma (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Toshiro Sato (Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University)
Mikiko C. Siomi (Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)

Basic Sciences

Chair Motoko Kotani (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University)
Masanori Hino (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Shihoko Ishii (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo/Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Hiroshi Matano (Meiji University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical
Sciences, Meiji University)
Takuro Mochizuki (Professor, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Toshiyuki Tanaka (Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Takashi Tsuboi (Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Musashino University)
Takeshi Tsuji (Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

Arts and Philosophy

Chair Yoshiaki Nishino (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Yuko Hashimoto (Curator, Utsunomiya Museum of Art)
Taro Igarashi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
Akiko Miki (International Artistic Director, Benesse Art Site Naoshima)
Yukiko Shikata (Curator / Critic)
Yuka Uematsu (Chief Curator, The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Masahiro Ushiroshoji (Director, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art)
Meruro Washida (Director, Towada Art Center)