October 24, 2025- Yuka received the Student Presentation Award, and Yuzhong received both the Student Presentation Award and the IUPAB Nara Memorial Student Presentation Award from the Biophysical Society of Japan! Congrats!
October 24, 2025- Fumino and Jieye joined the lab – Welcome!
June 29, 2025- Mai received the Poster Prize at The Protein Society Annual Symposium 2025. Congrats!
June 28, 2025- Ayami received the Matsuo Research Award. Congrats!
May 15, 2025- RCAST, particularly the Kato Lab along with other labs, has signed a collaboration agreement with Nanion Technologies Japan.We will advance novel biotechnology development using their high-throughput platforms.
April 3, 2025- Takafumi, Yuki, Maya, and Aoi joined the lab – Welcome!
March 26, 2025- Our latest study on the structural and functional analysis of FFA2 is now out in Nature Communications!
September 1, 2024- Akiko and Huang joined the lab – Welcome!
June 13, 2024- Mai received the Young Scientist Award from Protein Science Society of Japan! Congrats!
June 11, 2024- Hideaki received the IUPAB Young Investigator Award. Congrats!
June 1, 2024- Hideaki received the Kobe Prize Young Investigator Award. Congrats!
May 26, 2024- Mai received the Matsuo Research Award. Congrats!
April 2, 2024- Niichi and Tomohiro joined the lab – Welcome!
February 1, 2024- Hideaki is promoted to Full Professor in the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at UTokyo.
January 6, 2024- Ayami received the Research Encouragement Award at the 33rd AVP and OT Research Meeting! Congrats!
November 16, 2023- Seiya received the Student Presentation Award from Biophysical Society of Japan. Congrats!
October 1, 2023- Yuzhong and Jie joined the lab – Welcome!
August 30, 2023- Our latest study on the structural analysis and engineering of potassium-selective channelrhodopsins HcKCR1 and 2 is now out in Cell!
July 7, 2023- Ayami received the Poster Award from Protein Science Society of Japan. Congrats!
April 3, 2023- Our review paper about pump-like channelrhodopsins is now out in Current Opinion in Structural Biology!
April 3, 2023- Kazuhiro and Kouki joined the lab – Welcome!
March 27, 2023- Yuka joined the lab – Welcome!
December 16, 2022- We are currently looking for highly motivated graduate students to join the lab. If you are interested in joining our lab, please contact Hideaki (hekato[at]bio.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp).
December 16, 2022- Ayami, Asato, and Toshiki received the Outstanding Research Award in Systems Biomedicine. Congrats!
June 9, 2022- Koichiro received the Young Scientist Award from Protein Science Society of Japan. Congrats!
April 18, 2022- Suhyang, Ayumi, Kosuke, Seiwa, and Minori joined the lab – Welcome!
March 1, 2022- Hisayo joined the lab – Welcome!
Feburuary 3, 2022- Our latest study on the structural analysis and engineering of the pump-type ion channelrhodopsin ChRmine is now out in Cell!
December 17, 2021- Seiya and Koichiro received the Outstanding Research Award in Systems Biomedicine. Congrats!
October 1, 2021- Seiya joined the lab – Welcome!
June 1, 2021- Hisako joined the lab – Welcome!
April 15, 2021- Mai, Masaya, Asato, and Kumika joined the lab – Welcome!
February 2, 2021- Hideaki was awarded the FOREST grant from JST
December 11, 2020- Hideaki received the Shimadzu Prize for Young Scientist
October 1, 2020- The lab members are updated!
September 25, 2020- Hideaki received the Frontier Salon Nagase Prize, Special Prize.
April 7, 2020- Hideaki received The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology The Young Scientists’ Prize.
April 1, 2020- Koichiro, Junki, and Toshiki joined the lab – Welcome!
December 12, 2019- Hideaki received the 12nd Inoue Research Award.
December 6, 2019- Hideaki was selected as "The Researchers with Nice Step".
September 20, 2019- "Lab Events" is updated.
May 16, 2019- Masahiro joined the lab as a project assistant professor – welcome Masahiro!
April 1, 2019- Hideaki started his appointment on April 1st 2019 at the University of Tokyo.
March 13, 2019- Hideaki was selected as Excellent Young Researcher 2019 in the University of Tokyo