Notice on Decision of Recipients of the "Osamu Hayaishi Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad" of the FY2022 Japanese Biochemical Society
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan; President, Representative Director, Gyo Sagara) has been supporting the "Osamu Hayaishi Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad" of the Japanese Biochemical Society, a boarded incorporated association, since the FY2017. It was established to commemorate the achievements of the late Osamu Hayaishi (died on December 17, 2015), in Japan and overseas, who made a great contribution to the Japanese Biochemical Society.
We announce that 53 people have applied for the FY2022 "Osamu Hayaishi Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad" and the following 8 people have been selected as a result of the selection by the Study Abroad Grant Examination Committee of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
Recipients for FY2022（Titles omitted）
| Name of recipients | Affiliated institutions | Research theme |
|---|---|---|
| Koichi Sato | The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hubrecht Institute | Deciphering the roles of BRCA2 posttranslational modifications in chemoresistant cancers |
| Kenji Miki | Massachusetts General Hospital | Functional analysis of chambered heart tissue derived from human iPS cells |
| Yoshiki Higashijima | University of Copenhagen Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research |
Comprehensive understanding of histone modification proteins network by quantitative chromatin proteomic profiling |
| Kohta Takahashi | Graduate School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University | Molecular dissection of distribution and dynamics of cell membrane sphingomyelin |
| Kenji Ito | University of Pennsylvania | Mechanism of H3K9me3-heterochromatin loss on protein-coding genes during embryonic development |
| Naoto Watamura | Institute of Physical and Chemical Research | Elucidation of the onset mechanism for tauopathy by spatiotemporal single cell analysis in the next-generation mouse model |
| Sayuri Higashi | The United Graduate School of Drug Discovery and Medical Information Sciences, Gifu University | Development of spatiotemporally controlled membrane transport system for artificial cells |
| Sho Tanosaki | Keio University School of Medicine | Crosstalk between cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts in heart microenvironment |
- Affiliated institutions are shown at the time of application (July 27, 2021)
- Grant amount is JPY5 million per case