Past Awards/Recognitions

2017

Hiroshi Miyake, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Life Network Analysis, received the Best Poster Award at the 2017 GIW/BIOINFO/AYRCOB Annual Conference! (Nov. 2, 2017)

At the 2017 GIW/BIOINFO/AYRCOB Annual Conference held in Seoul, Korea, October 31-November 3, 2017, Hiroshi Miyake, a first-year doctoral student in the Life Network Analysis field [advisor: Associate Professor Naotaka Kidate], received the Best Poster Award The award-winning research was entitled "An algorithm to analyze the molecular structure of biological networks". The awarded research is "An algorithm to search RNA structural motifs". Congratulations!

Yutaro Imada, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Binary Network Analysis, received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 6th United Conference on Biomedicine and Informatics! (Sep. 29, 2017)

Yutaro Imada, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Bioscience Network Analysis [advisor: Associate Professor Naotaka Kidate], received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 6th United Conference on Informatics in Biomedicine held at Hokkaido University from September 27 to 29, 2017. The awarded research is "Inferring tumor progression process using population genetics model". Congratulations!

Ryubei Kawakami, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Molecular Targeted Therapy of Cancer, received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmaceutical Society Kanto Branch! (Sep. 6, 2017)

Ryubei Kawakami, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Molecular Targeted Therapy of Cancer [advisor: Visiting Associate Professor Hiroyuki Seimiya], received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Kanto Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan held on September 16, 2017, in Tokyo. The awarded research was "Contribution of CD44v-positive cells to early drug resistance in gastric cancer patient tumors. Congratulations on receiving the award.

Amir Farmanbar, 2nd year PhD student in the field of Functional Analysis In Silico, received the Best Presentation Award at the 18th International HTLV Conference! (Mar. 10, 2017)

Amir Farmanbar, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Functional Analysis in Silico [advisor: Prof. Kenta Nakai], received the Best Presentation Award at the 18th International Human Retrovirus HTLV Conference held in Tokyo, Japan, March 7-10, 2017. His award-winning research is entitled "An Empirical Model to visualize clonal expansion of HTLV-1-infected cells in adult T-cell leukemia by high-throughput sequencing". Congratulations on receiving the award.