Keio Medical Science Prize
Location of the award ceremony: "Kitasato Memorial Library", Shinano Campus in the Shinanomachi district of the Shinjuku district in Tokyo
The Keio Medical Science Prize ( English ; Japanese 慶 應 医学 賞 , Keiō Igakushō ) is a science award for medical research and life sciences awarded by Keiō University in Tokyo . The award goes back to a foundation by the Japanese doctor Mitsunada Sakaguchi . The winners receive a certificate of honor, a medal and a sum of money (2012: 10 million yen , equivalent to approx. 75,000 euros). On the occasion of the award ceremony, the winners each hold a keynote speech.
Nine of the 45 winners later also received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or in Chemistry (as of July 2020).
Award winners
- 1996 Stanley B. Prusiner , Shigetada Nakanishi
- 1997 Robert A. Weinberg , Tadatsugu Taniguchi
- 1998 Moses Judah Folkman , Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
- 1999 Elizabeth Helen Blackburn , Shinya Yoshikawa
- 2000 Arnold J. Levine , Yusuke Nakamura
- 2001 Tony Hunter , Masatoshi Takeichi
- 2002 Barry Marshall , Koichi Tanaka
- 2003 Ronald M. Evans , Yasushi Miyashita
- 2004 Roger Y. Tsien
- 2005 Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
- 2006 Thomas A. Steitz
- 2007 Brian J. Druker , Hiroaki Mitsuya
- 2008 Fred H. Gage , Shimon Sakaguchi
- 2009 Jeffrey M. Friedman , Kenji Kangawa
- 2010 Jules A. Hoffmann , Shizuo Akira
- 2011 Philip A. Beachy , Keiji Tanaka
- 2012 Steven A. Rosenberg , Hiroyuki Mano
- 2013 Victor Ambros , Shigekazu Nagata
- 2014 Karl Deisseroth , Hiroshi Hamada
- 2015 Jeffrey I. Gordon , Yoshinori Ohsumi
- 2016 Svante Pääbo , Tasuku Honjo
- 2017 John E. Dick , Seiji Ogawa
- 2018 Feng Zhang , Masashi Yanagisawa
- 2019 Hans C. Clevers , Tadamitsu Kishimoto
Web links
- Keio Medical Science Prize (keio.ac.jp)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of the Keio Medical Science Prize 2012 ( Memento of October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 664 kB) at ms-fund.keio.ac.jp; Retrieved September 19, 2012