| September 2017 | Chosen for the World Premier International Research Center Initiative of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
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| October 2017 | Established the Nano Life Science Institute (NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University |
| October 2017 | Appointed Takeshi Fukuma as Center Director |
| December 2017 | Appointed Seizo Morita as Administrative Director |
| February 2018 | Hosted the 1st NanoLSI Symposium in Tokyo |
| April 2018 | Completed equipment of research spaces |
| May 2018 | Signed a collaboration agreement with RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research |
| November 2018 | Hosted the 2nd NanoLSI Symposium in London |
| January 2019 | Established a satellite location at Imperial College London (ICL) |
| April 2019 | Appointed Yoshihiro Fukumori as the new Administrative Director |
| April 2019 | Established a satellite location at The University of British Columbia (UBC) |
| May 2019 | Signed a collaboration agreement with Nikon Instech Co., Ltd. |
| June 2019 | Signed a collaboration agreement with Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba |
| August 2019 | Hosted the 3rd NanoLSI Symposium at UBC in Vancouver |
| January 2020 | Held the joint symposium with Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University |
| April 2020 | Newly established as an independent research institute from Institute for Frontier Science Initiative of Kanazawa University |
| April 2020 | Established Division of Nano Life Science at Graduate School of Frontier Science Initiative (Set Master’s and doctoral programs simultaneously) |
| September 2020 | Completed the new research building of NanoLSI |
| December 2020 | Held the completion ceremony of the new research building of NanoLSI |
| November 2020 | Hosted the 4th NanoLSI Symposium online |
| June 2021 | Signed a collaboration agreement with Institute for Quantum Life Science of National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology |
| December 2021 | Hosted the 10th World Premier International Research Center Initiative Program (WPI) Science Symposium |
| January 2022 | Held the 2nd WPI NanoLSI-iCeMS Joint Symposium |
| March 2022 | Hosted the 5th NanoLSI Symposium in a hybrid format (in Kanazawa and online) |
| November 2022 | Hosted the 6th NanoLSI Symposium in a hybrid format (in Kanazawa and online) |
| April 2023 | Appointed Masafumi Iwami as the new Administrative Director |
| November 2023 | Hosted the 7th NanoLSI Symposium in Berlin, Germany |
| November 2024 | Hosted the 8th NanoLSI Symposium at OIST (in Okinawa) |
| May 2025 | Hosted the 9th NanoLSI Symposium (in Kyoto) |
