# ASHBi – Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology

**Source**: https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
**Parent**: https://www.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e/about/link.html

What key biological
\
traits make us ‘human’,

and how can knowing these lead us to better cure for disease?

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## Featured

[[Registration Open!] AMED-MRC ASPIRE Engineering Biology Workshop (Feb 27)](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-workshop/21492/)

[[Registration Open!] Online Seminar: How to Become a Professional Editor at a Scientific Journal (Feb 20)](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-rap/21931/)

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[For Student](https://student.ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/)

[Reseach Ethics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/bioethics/en-about/)

[SUPPORT ASHBi\
(Japanese only)](https://www.kikin.kyoto-u.ac.jp/contribution/ashbi/)

## News

- All
- Research
- Awards
- Others

All
Research
Awards
Others

[February 25, 2026

Call for Applications: ASHBi Fusion Research Grant

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/22169/)

[February 18, 2026

Scientists Develop a New Method to Decode How DNA ‘Switches’ Control Gene Activity

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/22032/)

[January 30, 2026

ASHBi Student Yuki Masuo received the JSPS Ikushi Prize 2025

Awards](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_awards/21992/)

[January 10, 2026

Why It Is So Hard to Get Started on an Unpleasant Task

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/21584/)

[January 08, 2026

Development plan for ASHBi has been approved

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_others/21635/)

[January 06, 2026

The Asahigaoka High School Science Seminar Club visited ASHBi

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_others/21564/)

[See All News](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news/)

[February 25, 2026

Call for Applications: ASHBi Fusion Research Grant

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/22169/)

[February 18, 2026

Scientists Develop a New Method to Decode How DNA ‘Switches’ Control Gene Activity

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/22032/)

[January 10, 2026

Why It Is So Hard to Get Started on an Unpleasant Task

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/21584/)

[September 30, 2025

Article: Differential Representation of Motivation and Affective Judgment by Neurons in the Primate Ventral Striatum and Ventral Pallidum during Approach-Avoidance Decision-Making

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/20979/)

[September 22, 2025

Review : Mechanisms of human germ cell development

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/20843/)

[September 18, 2025

iRECODE: A New Computational Method That Brings Clarity to Single-Cell Analysis

Research](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_research/20786/)

[See All News](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/category/news_research/)

[January 30, 2026

ASHBi Student Yuki Masuo received the JSPS Ikushi Prize 2025

Awards](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_awards/21992/)

[July 14, 2025

ASHBi Vice Director Yasuaki Hiraoka was selected as an Invited Speaker for ICM 2026

Awards](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_awards/20366/)

[April 09, 2025

ASHBi PI Yasuhiro Murakawa received the Kobe prize, Young Investigator Awards 2025

Awards](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_awards/19372/)

[March 17, 2025

ASHBi Vice Directer Yasuaki Hiraoka was selected to the 2025 Fellows on InaRIS Fellowship Program

Awards](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_awards/18468/)

[September 18, 2024

ASHBi Directer Mitinori Saitou received the Keio Medical Science Prize 2024

Awards](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_awards/11061/)

[April 30, 2024

PI Motoko Yanagita attended the congress held in Buenos Aires to receive the Bywaters Award from the International Society of Nephrology

Awards](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_awards/11038/)

[See All News](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/category/news_awards/)

[January 08, 2026

Development plan for ASHBi has been approved

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_others/21635/)

[January 06, 2026

The Asahigaoka High School Science Seminar Club visited ASHBi

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_others/21564/)

[December 08, 2025

ASHBi Researchers participated the K3 (KAIST-Kumamoto Univ. – Kyoto Univ.) Joint Symposium

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_others/21368/)

[November 04, 2025

ASHBi Office members gave presentations at the 11st Annual Meeting of RMAN-J

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/acceleration_program/21105/)

[November 01, 2025

ASHBi Researchers participated the McGill-Kyoto-ASHBi Symposium on Advances in Human Biology and Their Significance for Genomic Medicine

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_others/21314/)

[September 10, 2025

Obituary

Others](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_others/21125/)

[See All News](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/category/news_others/)

## Upcoming Event

- [Mar\
  13

  Dr. Luis Barreiro from the University of Chicago

  ASHBi Seminar](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-seminar/21723/)
- [Mar\
  23

  Dr. Yiming Zou from University of California, San Diego

  ASHBi Seminar](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-seminar/22118/)
- [Mar\
  24

  Steffen Plunder

  ASHBi Colloquium](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/event-colloquium/22245/)

## Vision and Mission

What key biological traits make us ‘human’,\
and how can knowing these lead us\
to better cures for disease?

[See All](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/)

## Our Research

- [Ema Group

  Developmental Engineering](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/ema-group/)

- [Bourque Group

  Comparative Epigenomics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/bourque-group/)

- [Amemori Group

  Neuroscience, Cognitive Neurophysiology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/amemori-group/)

- [Alev Group

  Developmental Biology & Organogenesis](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/alev-group/)

- [R. Yamamoto Group

  Stem Cell Biology & Hematology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/r-yamamoto-group/)

- [Yanagita Group

  Primate Nephrology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/yanagita-group/)

- [T. Yamamoto Group

  Genetic Information Biology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/t-yamamoto-group/)

- [Ueno Group

  Immunology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/ueno-group/)

- [Ogawa Group

  Molecular Oncology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/ogawa-group/)

- [Murakawa Group

  Medical Systems Genomics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/murakawa-group/)

- [Seirin Group

  Mathematical Biology and Medicine](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/seirin-group/)

- [Saitou Group

  Germ Cell Biology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/saitou-group/)

- [Hiiragi Group

  Developmental Biology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/hiiragi-group/)

- [Hiraoka Group

  Applied Mathematics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/hiraoka-group/)

- [Isa Group

  Evolutionary Neuroscience](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/isa-group/)

- [Fujita Group

  Bioethics and philosophy](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/fujita-group/)

- [Ema Group

  Developmental Engineering](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/ema-group/)

- [Bourque Group

  Comparative Epigenomics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/bourque-group/)

- [Amemori Group

  Neuroscience, Cognitive Neurophysiology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/amemori-group/)

- [Alev Group

  Developmental Biology & Organogenesis](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/alev-group/)

- [R. Yamamoto Group

  Stem Cell Biology & Hematology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/r-yamamoto-group/)

- [Yanagita Group

  Primate Nephrology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/yanagita-group/)

- [T. Yamamoto Group

  Genetic Information Biology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/t-yamamoto-group/)

- [Ueno Group

  Immunology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/ueno-group/)

- [Ogawa Group

  Molecular Oncology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/ogawa-group/)

- [Murakawa Group

  Medical Systems Genomics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/murakawa-group/)

- [Seirin Group

  Mathematical Biology and Medicine](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/seirin-group/)

- [Saitou Group

  Germ Cell Biology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/saitou-group/)

- [Hiiragi Group

  Developmental Biology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/hiiragi-group/)

- [Hiraoka Group

  Applied Mathematics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/hiraoka-group/)

- [Isa Group

  Evolutionary Neuroscience](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/isa-group/)

- [Fujita Group

  Bioethics and philosophy](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/fujita-group/)

- [Ema Group

  Developmental Engineering](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/ema-group/)

- [Bourque Group

  Comparative Epigenomics](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/bourque-group/)

- [Amemori Group

  Neuroscience, Cognitive Neurophysiology](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/amemori-group/)

- [Alev Group

  Developmental Biology & Organogenesis](https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-group/alev-group/)