The Conference on Transdisciplinary Research Tokyo 2026] Before the Extinction of Basic Researchers: Designing an Effective Research Community that Transcends the Overconcentration on Short-term Results / March 7, 2026 (Sat.) 13:30-14:20

Mr. Junichi Sugihara
Representative Director, Bio Impact Inc.

It operates one of Japan's largest academia research databases, "Nihon no Kenkyu.com," which combines information on funding for scientific research from ministries and research institutes with press releases. It also conducts industry-academia collaboration matching and KOL searches for pharmaceutical companies, etc., using its own analysis algorithms for research fields, etc., built using natural language processing and machine learning.

Motonori Hayano
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology of Aging, Tokyo University of Science

Born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1982. Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Science and specially appointed lecturer at Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine. D. in Life Sciences from the Department of Medical Genomics, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo in 2011, and a fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2013. From April 2025, he will be an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Science. He has also been involved in startups such as Tsubota Labs (to be listed in 2022), One Genomics (U.S., genome editing), and Flox Bio, and will serve as Representative Director of ASAGI Labs, Inc. from 2024.

Mr. Ryosuke Shibafuji
Representative Director and CEO, Academist Inc.

Through his research experience in graduate school, he realized the challenge of the closed nature of the academic world and the need to create an environment where diverse researchers can mingle. With this awareness of the issue, he launched the academic crowdfunding "academist(https://academist-cf.com/), a non-profit organization that supports research funding and research PR for more than 500 people. To date, he has helped more than 500 people obtain research funding, supported research PR, and planned and managed more than 100 research events. In recent years, he has also focused on building collaborative programs connecting researchers with companies and local governments and supporting startups in the DeepTech field, promoting projects that link research and society under the banner of "Open academia.

Moderator.

Ryuta Takeda
Executive Officer, Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.

D. in plant RNA pathogens from Ohio State University, U.S.A. He joined RIVANESS in 2012 after participating in the launch of RIVANESS America, Inc. in 2011. He has been promoting the domestic and international development of TECH PLANTER, which was launched as a seed acceleration business since 2013. He is currently working on a plan to establish a community of researchers centering on hyper-disciplinarity.