Awards

Notable Awards Received by TMRC Members

Assistant Professor Ryo Fujita

University of Tsukuba

Nov 29, 2023 - Received the 2023 Young Faculty Member Encouragement Award from University of Tsukuba, for Outstanding Achievements and Contributions for Improvement of Research Capabilities at University of Tsukuba.

Assistant Professor Ryo Fujita

University of Tsukuba

Nov 29, 2023 - Received the 2023 University of Tsukuba Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence

Professor Satoru Takahashi

University of Tsukuba

Compelling Results Award received from 2023 ISS Research Awards ceremony, for research on the “Small Animal Breeding Mission under Artificial Moon Gravity”, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Each year, the ISS Research Awards are announced during the ISS Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC: ISS National Laboratory, NASA, and American Astronautical Society) in the USA. The award is in recognition of research and innovation that achieves outstanding research results aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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Assistant Professor Ryo Fujita

University of Tsukuba

Aug 19, 2023 - Assistant Professor Ryo Fujita received the Young Investigator's Award Grand Prize at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Muscular Research. The award was presented for his research on a new skeletal muscle stem cell regulatory mechanism using MyoD knock-in mice successfully created in 2023. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106592) The Young Investigator's Award was presented for the best research at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Muscle Biology. This award recognizes young investigators who have greatly contributed to research and development of the muscle biology field.

Professor Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto

University of Tsukuba

Professor Sakata-Yanagimoto of TMRC and Department of Hematology at University of Tsukuba, received the 2022 Japan Cancer Association (JCA) Mauvernay Award within the Translational Research catergory. Professor Sakata-Yanagimoto was recognized for her exceptional research related to Translational research targeting intractable lymphomas. The Japanese Cancer Association and Debiopharm jointly established the JCA-Mauvernay Award to recognize cutting edge oncology research and to encourage Japanese researchers to make their work available to other parts of the world.

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Professor Satoshi Yamazaki

University of Tsukuba

Dec 16, 2021 - Professor Satoshi Yamazaki of TMRC's Stem Cell Therapy Laboratory was selected for the "18th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award 2021" from JSPS. The award recognised his research work in "Development of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Ex Vivo Expansion".

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Assistant Professor Ryo Fujita

University of Tsukuba

Assistant Professor Ryo Fujita from the TMRC Regenerative Medicine Division received the Young Investigator's Excellence Award at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Muscle Sciences, in December, 2020. The award was given for his research presentation titled "Stem cell maintenance mechanism of skeletal muscle stem cells by selective protein translation mechanism".

Professor Takashi Matsuzaka

University of Tsukuba

Professor Matsuzaka of the TMRC Energy and Metabolism Laboratory, received the Lily Award for outstanding research achievement in diabetes from the Japan Diabetes Society on October 10th, 2020.

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Professor Satoru Takahashi

University of Tsukuba

Professor Satoshi Takahashi received the Ando/Tajima Prize from the Japan Society for Experimental Animal Science 0n 9 June 2020 for his exceptional research on 'Functional analysis of Large Maf transcription factors and elucidation of the relationship with human diseases.

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Professor Mitsuyasu Kato

University of Tsukuba

Professor Mitsuyasu Kato was presented an award by the Japanese Society of Pathology - June 2020.

Professor Satoru Takahashi

University of Tsukuba

Professor Takahashi was awarded the 2020 National Science and Technology Award on 7th April, 2020, by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Science and Technology Promotion Division. The MEXT commendation aims at improving the motivation of those contributing to advanced science and technology by praising outstanding achievements, and to contribute to the improvement of science and technology standards.

The commendation was for contributions by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and University of Tsukuba team for development of the unique space mouse breeding system, which is being used in Japan's Kibo laboratory module aboard the International Space Station (ISS), for investigation of the biomedical effects of micro-gravity.

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Professor Satoru Takahashi

University of Tsukuba

2018 ISS Award for Compelling Results granted for experiments in JEM 'Kibo' – International Space Station (ISS) R&D 2018

Professor Takahashi was presented an award at the 2018 ISS Conference in San Fransisco, USA, for 'Compelling Results in Biology and Medicine:Transcriptome analysis of gravitational effects on muscles of mice'. The work was associated with mouse research and breeding experiments conducted aboard JAXA's Kibo laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS)

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Professor Shinji Fukuda

University of Tsukuba

Awarded the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MECST), Japan Science and Technology Policy Research Initiative Outstanding Contribution to Science and Technology 2015 (Nice-Step Researcher) Establishing a Bio-Venture Company ”February 12, 2016

Professor Masayuki Matsumoto

University of Tsukuba

Awarded the 2015 JSPS Prize (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

Professor Shinji Fukuda

University of Tsukuba

Awarded commendation in Science and Technology, by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The Young Scientist Prize was awarded for “Study on Intestinal Symbiosis System Using Integrated Omics” April 16, 2013.