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At the RIKEN Pioneering Research Cluster, outstanding researchers with rich research achievements and strong leadership abilities serve as leaders of Chief Scientist Laboratories, from where they carry out innovative fundamental research, creation of pioneer new research fields, and research that crosses disciplinary and organizational barriers.

The RIKEN Cluster for Science, Technology and Innovation Hub aims to promote further innovation in science and technology by developing RIKEN into a collaborative hub for industry, academia, including universities and research institutions in Japan and overseas, development agencies, and local governments.

The RIKEN Baton Zone Program fosters collaborations with private companies, both in response to the needs of industry and ensure the transfer of RIKEN's scientific achievements into commercial applications through efficient technology transfer.

The AIP carries out basic theoretical research and the development of innovative technologies in informatics to achieve scientific breakthroughs for contributing to the welfare of society and humanity.

The goal of the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science is to create a future world where people can live healthy and prosperous lives by carrying out problem-solving research and contributing to a sustainable society based on the concept of developing manufacturing methods with reduced environmental impact.

The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) is currently constructing the supercomputer Fugaku, the successor of the K computer. R-CCS also develops technology and software to promote advances in computer and computational sciences.

The RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) is helping to realize the dream of making the invisible visible by pushing the possibilities of light to the extreme.

The RIKEN Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters (R-IH), is an organization to promote and operate of RIKEN's information infrastructure and information research, strategically and collectively, that consists of the support departments and advanced､ cross-cutting research projects.

The RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program is an international center where researchers in theoretical, mathematical, and computational science come together, using mathematical methods, to unravel mysteries of the Universe, matter, and life, as well as to solve key problems in modern society.

At the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, researchers are committed to contributing to the advancement of medicine, focusing on genomic functions and the response of biological systems to environmental stress, and conducting state-of-the-art research on the pathogenesis and treatment of human diseases.

By grasping the life of multicellular organisms as dynamic systems of molecules, cells and organs, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research aim to contribute to healthy lifespans through elucidating phenomena involved in development and aging, and developing regenerative medicine and diagnostics.

The Center for Emergent Matter Science carries out advanced research combining physics, chemistry and electronics with the aim to harness the high energy efficiency in emergent materials.

RQC explores in a full-stack approach, from hardware to software and from basic science to applications, the frontier of quantum technologies through the research and development of quantum computers as innovative information processing units based on the principles of quantum mechanics.

The RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, a major research center for nuclear physics, operates one of the world’s leading accelerator complexes, where scientists explore the mysteries of atomic nuclei.

The brain is the essence of our minds that makes us human. As Japan’s premier research center for brain science, the RIKEN Center for Brain Science advances basic brain research at multiple scales from individual cells to behaving organisms and social interaction, towards the ultimate goal of benefiting society.

Bioresources are essential for research in a broad range of fields in the life sciences. Scientists at the RIKEN BioResource Research Center are committed to collecting, preserving, and distributing bioresources of the world’s highest-level and to conducting necessary research and development.

The RIKEN SPring-8 Center’s mission is to operate SPring-8 and SACLA, two large-scale research facilities, to develop state-of-the-art technologies, and to foster the creation of new science through the use of brilliant x-rays. The RSC also develops cryo-electron microscopy and NMR that are analysis tools complementary to synchrotron radiation.