It has been 10 years since Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE) was established. To share the accumulated know-how and insights on internationalization of research and education and system development within the university, we will hold an internal sharing seminar on Monday, January 19, 2026. Please register for participation. FY2025 GI-CoRE Internal Sharing Seminar“From International Collaborative Research to Graduate Education: Implementati

We are pleased to announce that a lecture by Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Shinji Noguchi of the Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, will be held as follows. Inorganic Materials Synthesis Pioneered by Gels: Research Progress and Current Efforts —Perspectives of Young Researchers from the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and the HOPE Meetings Lecture Title “Inorganic Materials Synthesis Pioneered by Gels: Research Progress and Current Efforts — Persp

Dr. Shinji Noguchi, Specially-Appointed Asst. Prof., received the Best Young Scientist Presentation Award at the 35th Conference and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (Bioceramics 35), held at Rio de Janeiro from October 28 to 31, 2025. Award Date: October 31, 2025 Recipient: Dr. Shinji Noguchi, Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor Affiliation: Laboratory of Convergence Soft Matter, Faculty of Advanced Life Science Award Name: Best Young

At the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomaterials, held in Hachioji, Tokyo from November 9 to 11, 2025, Director Nonoyama received Japan Biomaterials Science Encouragement Award. Dr. Nonoyama receiving the certificate of award

On October 2, 2025, the first symposium at the Co-Creation Core for Soft Materials Aspiring Research & Translation (C 3 -SMART), titled “Co-Creation Symposium of Hokudai Soft Materials 2025,” was held. A total of 120 participants attended, and 46 poster presentations were showcased. The event featured an invited lecture by Associate Professor Reika Katsumata (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and lively discussions took place on the latest research in the field of soft ma

Assitant Professor Assistant Professor Tomoki Yasui (Faculty of Advanced Life Science) has been selected for the ACT-X program under JST Strategic Basic Research Program for FY2025.

Dr. Shinji Noguchi, Specially-Appointed Asst. Prof., received the Best Presentation Award in the special session “Open-System...

Beautiful photos and reports from the summer school classes and parties are featured. For more details, please see below....

Associate Professor Tasuku Nakajima (Faculty of Advanced Life Science) published a paper titled “Osmosis-Induced Mechanical...

Inspired by biology, researchers have achieved the highest performing underwater adhesive hydrogel technology to date through a data...

We are happy to announce that LeNet & C3-SMART will hold the seminar 2025 as below. 【Speaker】 Dr. Yasuhiko Igarashi (Tsukuba University)...

The REBOND Summer School on Polymeric Networks for Sustainable Development, co-organized by the LeNet Project (Hokkaido University) and...

We are pleased to announce Co-Creation Symposium of Hokudai Soft Materials 2025 . Soft materials refer to substances that are easily...

Title “Node” Facilitated Thermostable Mechanophores for Rapid Self-strengthening in Double Network Materials Authors Julong Jiang, Zhi...

Title Fundamental toughening landscape in soft-hard composites: Insights from a minimal framework Authors Fucheng Tian, Katsuhiko Sato,...

GI-CoRE Cooperating Hub/Soft Matter Collaborative Research Unit (SMCR), Faculty of Advanced Life Science will hold the SMCR Seminar 2024...

GI-CoRE Cooperating Hub/Soft Matter Collaborative Research Unit (SMCR), Faculty of Advanced Life Science will hold the SMCR Seminar 2025...

GI-CoRE Cooperating Hub/Soft Matter Collaborative Research Unit (SMCR), Faculty of Advanced Life Science will hold the SMCR Seminar 2025...

The summer school, organized by Rebond Project and co-hosted by LeNet has began! Dr. Gong is one of the organizers, and Dr. Nakajima and...

Associate Professor Takayuki Nonoyama Receives the 2025 Award for Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Biomaterials! The Award for...