Awards

Awardees' laboratory and position are of the awarded day.

Date of award	Awardee	Outline	Link
Jan. 1, 2022	Ryoichiro Kageyama Center for Brain Science Director	Asahi Prize, 朝日新聞文化財団 Elucidation of biological clock genes that regulate developmental processes
Dec. 17, 2021	Masanori Murayama Haptic Perception and Cognitive Physiology Team Leader	島津奨励賞, Shimadzu Science Foundation Two-photon excitation microscopy FASHIO-2PM for detecting dynamics of large neural networks in awake mice
Dec. 16, 2021	Kazuhisa Shibata Human Cognition and Learning Team Leader	JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nov. 16, 2021	Atsushi Miyawaki Cell Function Dynamics Team Leader	Highly Cited Researchers 2021, Clarivate Analytics Recognition of ranking among the top 1% of researchers for most cited documents in Cross-Field.	Highly Cited Researchers 2021
Sep. 23, 2021	Kensuke Yoshida Neural Computation and Adaptation Student Trainee	Young presenter award, Japanese Neural Network Society Synaptic plasticity during sleep maximizes information transmission in a spiking neuron model
May. 15, 2021	Takeru Matsuda Statistical Mathematics Unit Unit Leader	優秀論文賞, Japanese Society of Applied Statistics Statistical analysis of kimariji in competitive karuta
Apr. 30, 2021	Tomonori Hara Molecular Pathology of Psychiatric Disorders Junior Research Associate	一般演題優秀賞, Japanese Society of Schizophrenia Research カルボニルストレスを伴う統合失調症におけるミトコンドリアの機能異常
Mar. 6, 2021	Masanori Murayama Haptic Perception and Cognitive Physiology Team Leader	リバネス研究アワード2021 先端研究推進部門 Visualization of in vivo cortical network dynamics with fast and wide field-of-view two-photon microscopy
Sep. 16, 2020	Atsushi Miyawaki Cell Function Dynamics Team Leader	The Takeda Prize for Medical Science, Takeda Science Foundation 革新的生命可視化技術の開発研究
Sep. 10, 2020	Jun Nagai Lab. for Glia-Neuron Circuit Dynamics Team Leader	The Award for Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Neurochemistry for FY2020, The Japanese Society for Neurochemistry Bi-directional astrocyte-neuron interaction in the dorsal striatum
Oct. 14, 2020	Satoshi Iwano Lab. for Cell Function Dynamics Researcher	第４回バイオインダストリー奨励賞, Japan Bioindustry Association in vivoイメージングを革新する人工生物発光システムAkaBLIの開発と応用
Feb. 25, 2021	Tomonori Hara Lab. for Molecular Psychiatry JRA	2020 CINP World Congress Student Encouragement Award, The International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) (Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum) Molecular pathology of mitochondrial dysfunction in schizophrenia under enhanced carbonyl stress
Dec. 19, 2019	Keisuke Ota Lab. for Haptic Perception and Cognitive Physiology Researcher	次世代脳プロジェクト冬のシンポジウム2019 若手優秀発表賞, Jisedai-nou “In vivo calcium imaging with a single cell resolution using “cosmoscope”, a new wide-field two-photon microscope”
Oct. 13, 2019	Manabu Toyoshima Lab. for Molecular Psychiatry Researcher	Excellent Presentation Award for JSNP2019, The Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology “Study on molecular pathology of neurodevelopmental disorder using iPS cell”
Sep. 18, 2019	Yoshihiro Yoshihara Lab. for Systems Molecular Ethology Team Leader	学会賞, The Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell “【受賞理由】吉原氏は長きにわたり嗅覚神経の投射について斬新な手法を用いて研究され、その業績は国際的に高く評価されている。日本味と匂学会においては研究奨励賞を受賞し、嗅覚研究において世界レベルの活動で同学会および関連分野を支えている。今後もこれまでと同様、嗅覚研究領域において世界的なリーダーシップを発揮すると期待され、学会賞受賞に資すると考える。”
May. 24, 2019	Hiroshi Shiozaki Lab. for Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception Researcher	RIKEN BAIHO Award “Development of a novel paradigm to study mechanisms of cognition in Drosophila”
Apr. 20, 2019	Kayoko Esaki Lab. for Molecular Psychiatry Special Postdoctoral Researcher	一般演題奨励賞, Japanese Society of Schizophrenia Research 「統合失調症患者死後脳におけるスフィンゴ脂質代謝変化とスフィンゴ脂質シグナル経路の病態メカニズムへの関与の解析」
Apr. 17, 2019	Steven James Middleton Lab. for Circuit and Behavioral Physiology Researcher	The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT “Role of neural oscillations in memory and disease”
Apr. 11, 2019	Risa Takamura Lab for Proteolytic Neuroscience Junior Research Associate	Junior Faculty Awards at the AD/PD 2019, Kenes International Organizers of Congresses S.A. “BREAKDOWN PATTERNS OF FUNCTIONAL NEURONAL CIRCUITS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE MODEL MICE”
Jan, 2019	Satoshi Iwano Lab. for Cell Function Dynamics Researcher	コニカミノルタ画像科学奨励賞, Konica Minolta Science and Technology Foundation “動物個体深部の生体分子動態を非侵襲に可視化する人工生物発光プローブ技術の開発”