# Feature Highlights

**Source**: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/index.html
**Parent**: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/admissions/index.html

Feature Highlights showcase interesting and exciting research projects from within the university.

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- 2018-05-11

  [In Conversation with Susumu Satomi](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/susumu_satomi.html)
- 2018-04-04

  [Motoko Kotani: By the Numbers](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/motoko_kotani.html)
- 2018-02-02

  [Yoshimichi Sato: Making Rational Choices](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/yoshimichi_sato.html)
- 2017-09-07

  [Anawat Suppasri - Carried by the Waves](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/anawat_suppasri.html)
- 2017-05-30

  [Kyoko Sengoku-Haga: A Portrait of the Artist as an Historian](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/kyoko_sengoku_haga_historian_artist.html)
- 2017-04-19

  [Aiming high: Shigeru Obayashi is innovating human flight](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/innovating_human_flight.html)
- 2017-01-17

  [Exploring the Earth and its neighbors](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/research_highlight_25.html)
- 2016-11-04

  [YUI Project - Ties that Bind and Save Lives](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/research_highlight_24.html)
- 2016-10-12

  [Sea Change](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/research_highlight_23.html)
- 2016-08-22

  [Brain training turns back your cognitive clock](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/research_highlights/research_highlight_22.html)

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### [University Research News](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/research/index.html)

- 2026-02-05

  [From Japan to Europe: Strengthening Global Preparedness for WUI Fires](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/university_news/from_japan_to_europe_strengthening_global_preparedness_for_wui_fires.html)
- 2025-12-04

  [World's First Mitochondrial Disease Treatment 'MA-5' Commences Phase II Clinical Trial](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/university_news/worlds_first_mitochondrial_disease_treatment_commences_clinical_trial.html)
- 2025-11-19

  [New List of Highly Cited Researchers Includes Seven from Tohoku University](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/university_news/new_list_of_highly_cited_researchers_includes_seven_from_tohoku_university_2025.html)
- 2025-11-05

  [Explore Japan's Seismic Science in New Online Course](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/university_news/explore_japans_seismic_science_in_new_online_course.html)
- 2025-04-14

  [SiRIUS: A New Frontier for Physician-Scientists](https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/news/university_news/sirius_a_new_frontier_for_physician_scientists.html)

### Research at a Glance

- #### Research

  - 2,221 Research fellows from overseas
  - 5,976 Academic Staff studying overseas
- #### Research Institutes

  - [Institute for Materials Research](http://www.imr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/)
  - [Institute of Development - Aging and Cancer](http://www.idac.tohoku.ac.jp/index.en.php)
  - [Institute of Fluid Science (Joint Usage / Research Center)](http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/index_e.html)
  - [Research Institute of Electrical Communication](http://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/en/)
  - [Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials](http://www.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp/en/)
  - [International Research Institute of Disaster Science](http://irides.tohoku.ac.jp/eng/)