Notice on the Recipients of the “Osamu Hayaishi Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad” of the FY2025 Japanese Biochemical Society
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan; President: Toichi Takino, “ONO”) has been supporting the "Osamu Hayaishi Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad" project of the Japanese Biochemical Society, a boarded incorporated association since the FY2017. It was established to commemorate the achievements in Japan and overseas of the member of the late Osamu Hayaishi (died on December 17, 2015) who made a great contribution to the Japanese Biochemical Society.
ONO announces that the following 6 people were selected from among 88 people who applied for the FY2025 "Osamu Hayaishi Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad" by the Study Abroad Grant Examination Committee of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
Recipients for FY2025 (Titles omitted)
| Recipients | Affiliated Institution | Research Themes |
|---|---|---|
| Ryosuke Ishimura | Department of Physiology Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine | Development of Post-Translational Modification-Specific Nanobody |
| Motoyuki Ogawa | Bioresponse Informatics, Juntendo University Faculty of Pharmacy | Understanding of the mechanisms of tissue homeostasis through lineage tracing |
| Chiaki Murakami | Chiba University Institute for Advanced Academic Research, Laboratory of Biofunctional Chemistry | Innovations in the Molecular Mechanism of Diacylglycerol Phosphorylation:Effects of New Type of PLCs and Membrane Curvature |
| Masaki Yagi | Harvard University; Massachusetts General Hospital |
Dissecting physiological roles of histone modification in tissue homeostasis |
| Kyosuke Yanagawa | Department of Genetics; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University |
Deciphering the role of extracellular vesicles in interorgan communication |
| Naoto Watamura | University College London Dementia Research Institute | Elucidation of the onset mechanism for tauopathy by spatiotemporal single-cell analysis in the next-generation mouse model |
*Names and affiliated institutions are displayed at the time of application (July 26th, 2024).
*Grant total amount is JPY40 million.