OUTSTANDING STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARD 2024
In March 2025, IMSUT presented awards for outstanding research to three students working at the Institute.
MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARD FY 2024
Awarded to Mr. Yitao Yang, Laboratory of Functional Analysis in silico, Huma Genome Center (Supervisor: Professor Kenta Nakai)
For the paper "STAIG: Spatial transcriptomics analysis via image-aided graph contrastive learning for domain exploration and alignment-free integration",
Nature Communications. 2025 Jan 27;16(1):1067, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56276-0
OUTSTANDING STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARD FY 2024 (Japanese syllabary order)
Awarded to Mr. Nichika Sato, Division of RNA and Gene Regulation, Department of Basic Medical Sciences (Supervisor: Professor Toshifumi Inada)
For the paper "Crucial roles of Grr1 in splicing and translation of HAC1 mRNA upon unfolded stress response",
Nature Communications. 2025 Mar 4;16(1):2172, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57360-1
Awarded to Mr. Weihang Zhang, Laboratory of Functional Analysis in silico, Huma Genome Center (Supervisor: Professor Kenta Nakai)
For the paper "HyGAnno: hybrid graph neural network?based cell type annotation for single-cell ATAC sequencing data",
Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2024 Mar 27;25(3):bbae152, DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbae152
*From left: Dean Nakanishi, recipient of award, Vice Dean Takekawa
Previous award recipients