A talk session between the 25th Keio Medical Science Prize laureates and committee members was held on November 30th, 2020.
[25th Keio Medical Science Prize Laureates]
Aviv Regev, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Genentech Research and Early Development
Atsushi Miyawaki, M.D., Ph.D.
Laboratory Head,
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics
[Keio Medical Science Prize Committee Members]
Chairperson:
Haruhiko Siomi　
Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University
Committee Members:
Makoto Arita　
Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University
Hideyuki Okano　
Dean, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University
Kenya Honda　
Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University
Yoshiaki Kubota　
Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University
[Keio Medical Science Prize]
Keio University, Japan’s oldest private university located in Tokyo, annually awards The Keio Medical Science Prize to recognize researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the fields of medicine or the life sciences.
It is the only prize of its kind awarded by a Japanese university, with eight recipients having gone on to become Nobel Laureates.
This year Dr. Aviv Regev of US biotechnology company Genentech Research and Early Development and Dr. Atsushi Miyawaki, a Team Leader at RIKEN, were awarded the prize for their work on their respective research themes of "Understanding biocomplexity using single-cell genomics," and "Clarification of life phenomenon using pioneering molecular imaging."