"Tokyo Institute of Technology Star" support means young researchers who are promoting research that can be the theme of national projects in the future by utilizing the Tokyo Institute of Technology Fund, and have made remarkable achievements in basic and basic fields. Supporting the "Tokyo Institute of Technology Star", which will lead the next generation, by supporting large-scale research funds for young researchers.The recipients of support are associate professors or younger (40 years old or younger in principle), and are selected through discussions between the president and the director of the Research-Industry-Academia Collaboration Headquarters, taking into consideration various achievements, regardless of open recruitment.

　The two people selected as the 5th "Star of Tokyo Institute of Technology" in 2017 were Associate Professor Takuji Yamada of the School of Life Science and Technology and Assistant Professor Toshiyuki Yokoi of the Institute of Chemical and Life Sciences, Institute of Science and Technology Innovation (at the time of the award). , Currently an associate professor).

　Associate Professor Yamada has said, "Standardization of sampling methods and analysis methods (especially metagenomics and metagenomic analysis) of biological samples (feces, intestinal mucosa, etc.) and construction of an integrated information infrastructure including clinical information" "In the carcinogenesis high risk group" I have been working on "Analysis of Gut microbiota: Metagenomic analysis and informatic analysis of data".Assistant Professor Yokoi has been working on "creation of zeolite catalysts that enable direct synthesis of methane to methanol, as well as propylene and butenes" and "creation of high-performance zeolite catalysts by controlling the position of heteroatoms".