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OUTSTANDING STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARD

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


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BEST PRESENTATION AWARD

IMSUT holds a symposium to commemorate the anniversary of IMSUT's founding and also to provide the opportunity for younger researchers to present the results of their studies annually.
The top three posters are selected through votes cast by the professors.

Best Posters Award 2025

First Place Poster Award
Ryoko Ando (Division of Cell Signaling and Molecular Medicine)
"Mutual regulation between ERK and MKP accelerates cell proliferation and tumorigenesis"

Second Place Poster Award
Daichi Ito (Division of Stem Cell and Molecular Medicine)
"In vitro CRISPR KO screening for functional CHIP mutations"

Third Place Poster Award
Saori Shio (Division of Molecular Virology)
"Role of the integrity of HSV-1 Us3 substrate specificity in viral pathogenesis"



Previous award recipients