Dr. Yusuke Yamauchi, MANA PI, was selected as a one of winners of NISTEP Award 2016 by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP). This award is given by NISTEP since 2005 for researchers with excellent contributions to science and technology. NISTEP highly appraised Dr. Yamauchi's research as "Various Synthesis of New Materials and Proposal of New Synthesis Techniques to Design New Inorganic Materials".