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October 4 - Okinawa, Japan – The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) is proud to announce that Svante Pääbo, an Adjunct Professor at OIST and Director of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".Peter Gruss, OIST President and CEO and Prof. Svante Pääbo talked to Japanese media at the conference.

Tokyo Tachikawa High School students visited OIST and presented their research projects to OIST PhD students | Tokyo Tachikawa High School students visited OIST

On September 1, 2022, we celebrated and welcomed new PhD students, new faculty, and new executive members

On Aug 26 2022, we welcomed, Ms. Roxane de Bilderling, ambassador of Belgium to Japan. We toured the labs and campus with Belgium researchers and Ph.D. students.

Kadena High School students visited OIST to learn about SDGs initiatives at OIST and social entrepreneurship activities of OIST startups

The Science Education Outreach Team held SHIMA, a workshop for high school students in Okinawa Prefecture addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and island sustainability

The Science Education Outreach Team held SHIMA, a workshop for high school students in Okinawa Prefecture addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and island sustainability

The Science Education Outreach Team held SHIMA, a workshop for high school students in Okinawa Prefecture addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and island sustainability

The Science Education Outreach Team held SHIMA, a workshop for high school students in Okinawa Prefecture addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and island sustainability

The Tedako Child Development Center (CDC) provides dual language (English and Japanese) high quality nursery care, early childhood education, after-school and holiday programs for the families of OIST students and employees. The CDC aims to prepare children for either the Japanese or English-language school systems while supporting the unique childcare needs of the university’s highly international community.