Professor Hiroyuki Noji is a single-molecule biophysicist. He has been studying the chemomechanical coupling mechanism of ATP synthase. His work to visualize the rotary motion of F1-ATPase of ATP synthase is featured in many prominent textbooks such as The Cell. He is also known as the inventor of the femtoliter chamber array system (FRAD) for digital bioassays such as digital ELISA. He is actively expanding the application of FRAD towards cell-free synthetic biotechnology. He has been awarded Yomiuri Gold Medal Prize from Yomiuri foundation 2015, Nakatani Incentive Prize from Nakatani foundation 2015, Inoue Science Research Award from Inoue Foundation for Science 2013, JSPS Prize from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2006, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize for Young Scientists from American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, 1998.