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: September 15 2026

Decision on Honda Prize 2026
Professor Graeme M. Clark AC, an Australian medical doctor and neuroscientist and Laureate Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, and Dr. Ingeborg Hochmair, an Austrian electrical engineer and co-founder and CEO of MED-EL have been selected to receive the Honda Prize 2026.

July 24 2026

Honda Foundation Report No. 195 has been uploaded
Research on Mobility for a Possible Future
Dr. Takashi Oguchi

Professor/Deputy Director General, Department of Human and Social Systems, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

: July 14 2026

Honda Foundation Colloquium No. 161 has been held.
"Full-length cDNA Analysis: Another Human Genome Project"
Dr. Sumio Sugano, President, Kashiwa-no-ha Omics Gate (General Incorporated Association), Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Director, Honda Foundation

April 28 2026

Honda Foundation Report No. 194 has been uploaded
Successful Aging
Dr. Mitsunobu Kano

Vice President and Professor of Okayama University

Executive Director of the Honda Foundation

: April 23 2026

Honda Foundation Colloquium No. 160 has been held.
"Research on Mobility for a Possible Future"
Dr. Takashi Oguchi, Professor/Deputy Director General, Department of Human and Social Systems, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

September 15 2026

Honda Prize 2026 goes to Professor Graeme M. Clark AC, an Australian medical doctor and neuroscientist and Laureate Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne,, and Dr. Ingeborg Hochmair, an Austrian electrical engineer and co-founder and CEO of MED-EL, for their respective pioneering research and development of the multichannel cochlear implant, contributions to its clinical application, and leadership in its worldwide adoption.

September 09 2025

Honda Prize 2025 goes to Dr. Kenichi Iga, Honorary Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo,
18th President of former Tokyo Institute of Technology for pioneering contributions to the conception and development of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL), and leadership in its practical application, which have significantly advanced the optoelectronics industry and the information society.

September 30 2024

Honda Prize 2024 goes to Dr. James G. Fujimoto, Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology（MIT, U.S.A.） for his research group’s development of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). The prize also acknowledges his consistent contribution to the commercialization and clinical translation of OCT in ophthalmology, cardiology, and biomedical research through multidisciplinary collaborative research.

September 29 2023

Honda Prize 2023 goes to Dr. Masato Sagawa(an advisor to Daido Steel. Co. Ltd,. and the president, NDFEB Corporation) and Dr. John J. Croat (former president, John Croat Consulting Inc.) for their independent inventions of “neodymium(Nd-Fe-B) magnet” recognized as the strongest on Earth, which significantly supports our daily lives.

September 30 2022

Honda Prize 2022 goes to Dr. Hidetoshi Katori, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, (Principal Investigator/Team Leader, RIKEN) for inventing the “optical lattice clock” which is 1,000 times more accurate than conventional atomic clocks and deviates only one second in 30 billion years.

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