List of Award Recipients for Fiscal Year 2021

2021 Award Recipients (Click here for details on the awards)

Award for Outstanding Research Achievements

Department of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering—Professor Tadashi Hara

"Inter-institutional Research Aimed at Promoting 'Gabion Technology' to Balance Disaster Prevention and Environmental Conservation"

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Department of Life, Environmental, and Medical Sciences, School of Integrated Sciences—Professor Yasushi Hikichi

"Plant-Bacterial Research from a Regional University: Assessing Real-World Conditions to Challenge Global Dogma"

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Young Faculty Research Excellence Award

Yaka Matsuda, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

"A Study on Social Pedagogy in Sweden"

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Hiroshi Todaka, Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine

"Regulation of Muscle Regeneration Mechanisms by the Dementia Drug Donepezil and Elucidation of the Molecular Mechanisms"

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Yosuke Niko, Assistant Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences, School of Integrated Sciences

"Development of High-Brightness Fluorescent Dyes and Their Applications in the Life Sciences"

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Graduate Student Research Encouragement Award

Graduate School of Integrated Human and Natural Sciences, Department of Education, Second-Year Master’s Student, Akiyoshi Kameyama

"Basic Research on the Implementation of 'Interactive Learning' in Science Education"

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Graduate School of Integrated Human and Natural Sciences, Department of Agricultural, Forestry, and Marine Sciences, Second-Year Master’s Student, Tomoka Takemura

"Elucidation of the Mechanisms Underlying Quorum Sensing and Mushroom-Type Biofilm Formation That Characterize the Pathogenicity of the Bacterial Wilt Pathogen"

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Yuto Shimada, 2nd-year Ph.D. student, Department of Applied Natural Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Human and Natural Sciences

"The Mechanism of Temperature-Induced Cyst Formation in the Corboda of Protozoan Cilia"

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Taio Nishimori, 3rd-year Ph.D. student, Department of Medicine, Graduate School of Integrated Human and Natural Sciences

"Establishment of a xenograft model of human herpesvirus 8-negative body cavity fluid-associated large B-cell lymphoma and the antitumor activity of birabresib in vitro and in vivo"

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