1996
  Establishment of the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre
  Selected as a High-Tech Research Centre (Phase I), MEXT (1996 - 2000)

1999
  Grant for New Technology Development, MEXT (1999 - 2000)

2001
  Selected as a High-Tech Research Centre (Phase II), MEXT (2001 - 2005)
  Award for Eminent Scientists (Sir Harry Kroto), JSPS (2001 - 2003)

2003
  Selected as a 21st Century’s Centre of Excellence, MEXT (2003 - 2007)

2004
  Award for Eminent Scientists (Sir John Walker), JSPS (2004 - 2006)

2006
  Selected as a High-Tech Research Centre (Phase III), MEXT (2006 - 2010)

2007
  Selected as a Nanotechnology Innovation Support Centre, MEXT (2007 - 2011)
  Establishment of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science (Doctoral Course)
  Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institutions:
            School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, UK
            Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
            Unité de Formation et Recherche, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
            Department of Chemistry, Department of Mathematics, University of Montana, USA
            Japan Electron Optics Laboratory (JEOL) Ltd., Japan
            Asylum Technology Co. Ltd., Japan
            Asylum Research, USA

2008
  Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institutions:
        Nicole Grobert’s Research Group, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK
        Shimadzu Co., Japan

2009
  Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institution:
        Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

2011
  Establishment of the Master Course at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science
  Grant for the Programme for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, MEXT (2011 - 2015)
  Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institutions:
        IC Design Research and Education Centre,
                    Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
        Centre for Fundamental and Advanced Technical Research,
                    Romanian Academy, Timisoara, Romania
        National Centre for Engineering of Systems with Complex Fluids,
                  “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
        Laboratory for Engineering and Applications of Nanomaterials, Rice University, USA
        Laboratory for Organic Matter Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovania

2012
  Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institutions:
        Biophotonics and Optoelectronics Laboratory, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
        Bielefeld Institute for Biophysics and Nanoscience, University of Bielefeld, Germany
        Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science,
              Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
        University of Brighton, UK
        Université de Nantes, France (Doctoral Double Degree Programme)
        Horiba Ltd., Japan
        Hitachi High-Technologies Co., Japan
        Elionix Inc., Japan
        Samco Inc., Japan

2013
  Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institutions:
        Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
        (BN Centre’s Office, Doctoral Double Degree Programme)
        Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
        (Doctoral Double Degree Programme)

2014
  Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institutions:
        National Institute of Materials Physics, Romania
        Dept. Metallic Materials Science and Physical Metallurgy,
    　　          University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
        Nissan ARC Ltd., Japan

2015
Research and Educational Collaboration Agreement with the following institution:
            University of Brighton, UK (Doctoral Dual Certificate Programme)