SYSMEX CORPORATION
March 11, 2015
Sysmex Corporation
FY2014 Nakatani Award and Research Grant Recipients Announced
The Tokyo-based Nakatani Foundation for Advancement of Measuring Technologies in Biomedical Engineering today announced 3 recipients of The Nakatani Award, 27 recipients of its Technology Development Research Grants and 1 recipient of its Investigative Research Grants for fiscal 2014. Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu) has been a financial supporter of the Foundation for many years.
The Foundation was established in April 1984 as The Nakatani Foundation of Electronic Measuring Technology Advancement, endowed principally by Sysmex and its founder and first president, the late Taro Nakatani, with the goal of "promoting advances in electronic measuring technology as a foundation for industrial technology, in order to contribute to the development of Japanese society and its economy as well as the betterment of national life." In April 2012, the Foundation was renamed The Nakatani Foundation for Advancement of Measuring Technologies in Biomedical Engineering. From its inception, the Foundation has provided Technology Development Research Grants, awarding a total of 745 million yen* to 347 research projects over the last 31 years.
1. Recipients and research themes
Please see "Recipients of FY2014 Awards"
2. Presentation ceremony
Time: March 12, 2015, 13:00
Place: IMPERIAL HOTEL, TOKYO (TEIKOKU HOTEL)
3. About the Foundation
Name: Nakatani Foundation for Advancement of Measuring Technologies in
Biomedical Engineering
Location: 1-2-2 Ohsaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
URL: http://www.nakatani-foundation.jp/ (Japanese only)
* 745 million yen includes the Special Research Grants which are multi-year grants (two years).
Recipients of FY2014 Awards
Nakatani Foundation
for Advancement of Measuring Technologies in Biomedical Engineering
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Encouraging PrizesRecipient | Position and Affiliation | Research Theme | Amount (yen) |
Hiroyuki Noji | Professor, Applied chemistry Department of engineering, The University of Tokyo | Development and application of digital counting of biomolecules | 2,500,000 |
Hirohide Saito | Professor Department of Reprogramming Science, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University | Synthetic RNA switch to detect and control target cells | 2,500,000 |
Tsuyoshi Sekitani | Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University | Ultraflexible, sheet-type bio-sensors for ultra-low invasive medical applications | 2,500,000 |
Masayoshi Nishiyama | Program-specific Associate Professor, The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University | Mechanical modulation of protein molecular machines working in living cells | 3,000,000 |
Ikuro Suzuki | Associate Professor, Department of electronics, Graduate school of engineering, Tohoku Institute of Technology | Development of on-chip measurement techniques of neuronal synaptic function for application of a novel drug assay in human-derived neurons | 3,000,000 |
Kiyoshi Yasukawa | Professor, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University | Development of novel technology for cDNA synthesis and its application to microarray | 3,000,000 |
Pavillon Nicolas | Specially Appointed Researcher, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University | Label-free multimodal microscopy for cellular state investigation | 2,920,000 |
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa | Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University | Development of micro ELISA chips using a focused laser beam to catch reactions | 2,620,000 |
Hiroshi Sekiya | Assistant professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo | Fluorescence ATP imaging of cerebral infarction during expansion of necrotic core | 3,000,000 |
Takashi Azuma | Project Associate Professor, Bioengineering Department, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | Advanced Blood Flow Measurement Method using Ultrasound CT (Computed Tomography) | 3,000,000 |
Keiichi Torimitsu | Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University | Chip-on-clothes bioactivity monitoring using flexible silk electrode | 3,000,000 |
Shunrou Fujiwara | Assistant professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Iwate Medical University | Development of non-invasive method to quantitatively measure brain perfusion and metabolism by diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging | 3,000,000 |
Kosuke Tsukada | Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University | Development of a tissue hypoxia sensor and application to tumor detection without imaging agent | 2,400,000 |
Yoichi Haga | Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University | Development of local glucose tolerance test device using subepidermal microperfusion for diagnosis of postprandial hyperglycemia | 3,000,000 |
Makoto Akashi | Professor, The Research Institute for Time Studies, Yamaguchi University | Development of a method for long-term real-time monitoring of gene expression in free-moving mice | 3,000,000 |
Atsushi Kuhara | Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, & Institute for Integrative Neurobiology, Konan University | Quantitative analysis of ultra high speed tracking and activity imaging for cell population | 3,000,000 |
Kazuyuki Minami | Professor, Graduate school of Science and Engineering, Systems Design and Engineering, Yamaguchi University | Development of a distributed cell stimulation matrix device available for the measurement and observation of the response of a large number of single cell to the dynamics stimulation | 2,930,000 |
Takashi Tateno | Professor, Bioengineering and bioinformatics, Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University | Developing and evaluating a closed-loop type measuring system for stimulating and recording neural systems to suppress and control tinnitus | 3,000,000 |
Recipient | Position and Affiliation | Research Theme | Amount (yen) |
Yu Ishima | Assistant Professor, Department of Biopharmaceutics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University | Development of the Novel EPR Enhancer Nanoparticle for Enhancing the Specific and Therapeutic Effects of Macromolecular Anticancer Drugs | 1,500,000 |
Wataru Yoshida | Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Technology, School of Biotechnology & Bioscience | Development of global DNA methylation detection system based on MBD fused luciferase | 1,500,000 |
Kentaro Otani | Research staff, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute | Development of ultrasound molecular imaging targeted to intravascular molecules | 1,500,000 |
Hideaki Takata | Assistant professor, Department of Biotechnology Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University | Development of chromosome aberration detection system based on genome DNA visualization in vivo | 1,400,000 |
Recipient | Position and Affiliation | Research Theme | Amount (yen) |
Hiroshi Hibino | Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology, Niigata University School of Medicine | Development of an analytical system equipped with a diamond microelectrode for measurement of pharmacokinetics in the inner ear | 14,860,000 |
Motomu Tanaka | Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University | Technical Platforms for Quantitative, Multiscale Standardization of Human Corneal Endothelial Cells towards Cell Injection Therapy | 15,000,000 |
Kazushige Yamana | Professor, Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo | Ultra-highly Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of MicroRNA | 15,000,000 |
Toyotaka Yada | Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Engineering, Kawasaki Medical School | Evaluation of collateral subepicardial microvessels before coronary artery bypass surgery and subendocardial microvessels by fluorescent microscopy of near-infrared light | 15,000,000 |
Matsuhiko Nishizawa | Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University | Development of Stretchable Hydrogel-Based Transepithelial Potential Measurement System for Analysis of Skin Response to Mechanical Stimuli | 15,000,000 |
Hideshi Ishii | Specially Appointed Professor, Department of Cancer Profiling Discovery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine | High-Resolution Measuring System for Intracellular Epigenetic Modifications | 15,000,000 |
Recipient | Position and Affiliation | Research Theme | Amount (yen) |
Naomi Yagi | Program-Specific Researcher, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University | Investigation of dysphagia on Nonrestrictive Biometric Information | 1,970,000 |
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