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OUTSTANDING STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARD

In March 2024, IMSUT presented awards for outstanding research to three students working at the Institute.

MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARD FY 2023
Awarded to Mr. Yunye He, Laboratory of complex trait genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (Supervisor: Professor Yoichiro Kamatani)
For the paper "East Asian-specific and cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analyses provide mechanistic insights into peptic ulcer disease",
Nature Genetics, 2023 Dec;55(12):2129-2138, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01569-7

OUTSTANDING STUDENT PUBLICATION AWARD FY 2023 (Japanese syllabary order)
Awarded to Mr. Sota Ito, Division of RNA and Gene Regulation, Department of Basic Medical Sciences (Supervisor: Professor Toshifumi Inada)
For the paper "Mechanistic insights into the roles of the UFM1 E3 ligase complex in ufmylation and ribosome-associated protein quality control",
Science Advances. 2023 Aug 18;9(33):eadh3635, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh3635

Awarded to Mr. Quentin Hillebrand, Division of Medical Data Informatics, Huma Genome Center (Supervisor: Professor Tetsuo Shibuya)
For the paper "Unbiased Locally Private Estimator for Polynomials of Laplacian Variables",
Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2023. Page741-751, DOI: 10.1145/3580305.3599537




*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 2023

First Place Poster Award
Hiroyuki Matsumura (Division of Aging and Regeneration)
"Stem cell competitive dynamics orchestrate skin homeostasis, aging and carcinogenesis"

Second Place Poster Award
Junichiro Nashimoto (Division of Cell Signaling and Molecular Medicine)
"Analysis of the expression mechanism and molecular function of an oncogenic ERK-inducible tetraspanin protein in cancer"

Third Place Poster Award
Takanori Tannaka (Division of Molecular Virology)
"Effective down-regulation of HSV-1 UL7 by Tyrosine@phosphorylation in vitro and in vivo"

Yue GuoiDivision of Molecular Pathology)
"Trans-homophilic interaction of IGSF3 drives melanoma metastasis by promoting the adhesion to the vascular endothelium"



Previous award recipients