Promising Research Initiatives (PRIs) are at incubated stage as researcher groups, which attempt to become Centers of Excellence in research (at self-sustained stage) as mid-term and long-term hallmarks of Hiroshima University.  These PRIs are selected from our university's various researcher groups which are at organically initiated stage.  Some of these burgeoning researcher groups may have been formed by surrounding a Distinguished Professor or Distinguished Researcher.  Others may include either project research centers or those which conduct large-scale research projects.

• International Network on Polyoxometalate Science
• Core of Research for Organelle Diseases
• Catchment Healthy Cycle between urban and rural in Setouchi to Asia, toward the creation (HURu-SAto)
• Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics
• MBR Center
• Developing science and technology for diversity and inclusion
• Consolidated research for biogenic nanomaterials
• Educational Vision Research Institute
• Center for Emergent Condensed-Matter Physics in Hiroshima University
• Center for Functional Nano Oxide
• The Research Center for Japanese Foods (Japanese Page)
• Integrated Research Center for Smart Biosensing
• Interdisciplinary Research Center for Instinctive Behavioral Science
• Hiroshima Active Peacebuilding Research Initiative
• Center of Research for Environmentally Friendly Smart Materials
• Hiroshima Novel Manufacturing Research Center
• Center for Statistical Science
• Research Center for the Advancement of Learning Systems