National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology

• Georg von・Fingerhut

  Lead investigator

• Takehiko Doi

  Lead investigator

• Masayo Kojima

  Lead investigator

• MITSUO MARUYAMA

  Lead investigator

• Keisuke Maeda

  Lead investigator

• Ayuka Kawakami

  Lead investigator

• Ryo Yamaguchi

  Lead investigator

• Takahiro Shimoda

  Lead investigator

• Fingerhut Georg von

  Lead investigator

• Naoki Ito

  Lead investigator

• Chiharu Nishijima

  Lead investigator

• Kouki Tomida

  Lead investigator

• Masanori Morikawa

  Lead investigator

• Takeru Oka

  Lead investigator

• Yuto Kiuchi

  Lead investigator

• Kazuhei Nishimoto

  Lead investigator

• Koichi Iijima

  Lead investigator

• Takahiko Shimizu

  Lead investigator

• Osamu Katayama

  Lead investigator

• Satoshi Kurita

  Lead investigator

Sources: openalex.org

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Elucidation of the Mechanisms of Muscle Spindle Aging Focusing on Tissue-Specific Macrophages, 26K02745, JP¥24.8m, 2026–2029, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Elucidation of the function of East Asian specific dementia variants and development of a personalized prediction model, 26K02644, JP¥18.5m, 2026–2029, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a socially implemented multidomain intervention program for dementia prevention, 26K02730, JP¥18.2m, 2026–2029, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Establishing a New Scientific Framework for Sleep Research in Dementia Prevention, 26K02729, JP¥17.9m, 2026–2031, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Development of an Early Dementia Screening Method Without Memory Tasks, 26K06640, JP¥4.6m, 2026–2029, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Effectiveness of an Integrated Triad of Rehabilitation, Nutrition Support, and Oral Management for Older Adults in Hospital, Home, and Community Settings, 26K14113, JP¥4.4m, 2026–2029, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Mechanisms of extracellular amyloid formation associated with age-related glial alterations, 26K02863, JP¥24.8m, 2026–2030, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Cardiac Rehabilitation and Cerebral White Matter Hyperintensities in Older Adults With Heart Failure and Dementia, 26K14185, JP¥4.4m, 2026–2029, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Association Between Patterns of Smartphone Application Use and Incident Frailty and Disability in Older Adults, 26K21129, JP¥4.6m, 2026–2028, 1 Apr 2026

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Adverse Events Associated with Exercise Interventions in Older Adults with Frailty: A Systematic Review, 25K21928, JP¥6.2m, 2025–2028, 27 Jun 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Development and validation of the Japanese version of the Cognitive Reserve Index questionnaire (CRIq), 25K20896, JP¥4.8m, 2025–2027, 1 Apr 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Identification of Geographic Environmental Factors Contributing to Community Development for Preventive Care, 25K21093, JP¥4.8m, 2025–2027, 1 Apr 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Utilization of a preventive care healthcare application and analysis of factors associated with increased step count, 25K14553, JP¥4.2m, 2025–2028, 1 Apr 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, A Study on the Effectiveness of Clinical Multidomain Intervention Trial for the Prevention of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early-stage Dementia, 25K20959, JP¥3.8m, 2025–2028, 1 Apr 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), A new treatment that contributes to improving the motor functions in older adults by applying proprioceptive functions, 25K02974, JP¥18.1m, 2025–2028, 1 Apr 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Development of a health check monitoring system and a smart voice examination for older adult, 25K05670, JP¥4.7m, 2025–2028, 1 Apr 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Association between prefrailty/frailty and obtaining health information in community-dwelling older adults, 25K20834, JP¥4.8m, 2025–2028, 1 Apr 2025

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Maximizing the effect of physical activity timing in older adults with diabetes, 24KJ2233, JP¥3.6m, 2024–2027, 23 Apr 2024

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Aging- and autophagy-related factors as predictive markers of atherosclerosis, 24K19046, JP¥4.7m, 2024–2027, 1 Apr 2024

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Consideration of appropriate values for recommendations on wake after sleep offset time to prevent cognitive decline in older people., 24K20522, JP¥2.9m, 2024–2026, 1 Apr 2024

Sources: openalex.org

• Longitudinal changes in oral function and their associations with frailty status and out-of-home activity in community-dwelling older adults

  3 Sept 2026

• Association of Computer and Smartphone Use, Health Literacy, and Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Higashiura Study

  24‐2, 1 Sept 2026

Sources: api.crossref.org

• Association between duration of smoking cessation and depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study

  Environmental health and preventive medicine, 5 Oct 2026

• The Japanese Translation Study of the Cognitive Reserve Index Questionnaire

  Geriatrics & gerontology international, 17 Aug 2026

• Community Walking Speed as a New Predictor of Disability Incidence in Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study

  Gerontology, 3 Mar 2026

• Predicting Dementia Onset with the Updated Cut‐off Points of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology‐Functional Assessment Tool

  AAIC 2025 abstract, 23 Dec 2025

• Hematologic and biochemical changes associated with age and strain in aged B6 mice breeding in the national center of geriatrics and gerontology

  Experimental animals, 6 Nov 2025

• Sociodemographic heterogeneity in the association between social isolation and all-cause mortality among Japanese older adults: JAGES longitudinal panel study

  The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific, 20 Oct 2025

• Combined prevalence of frailty and mild cognitive impairment in a population of elderly Japanese people

  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 10 May 2013