Awards & Winners

Keio Medical Science Prize

Keio Medical Science Prize

The Keio Medical Science Prize, is a distinguished Japanese prize in medical sciences.
Date Established : 1995-04-01

Check all the winners of Keio Medical Science Prize presented under Keio Medical Science Prize since 1996 .


Victor Ambros

(Discovery of microRNAs as a new class of gene regulators.)

Shigekazu Nagata

(Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis and its physiology.)

Steven Rosenberg

(Development of Effective Immunotherapies for Patients with Cancer.)

Hiroyuki Mano

(Discovery of a lung cancer oncogene EML4-ALK and development of molecular targeted therapy.)

Philip A. Beachy

(Identification of Hedgehog, a key molecule in development, and its medical applications.)

Keiji Tanaka

(Discovery of proteasome and elucidation of its physiological functions.)

Jules A. Hoffmann

(Discovery of insect-innate immune system and Toll receptor.)

Shizuo Akira

(Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of innate immune response for microbes.)

Jeffrey M. Friedman

(For the discovery of leptin and study of its physiological functions.)

Kenji Kangawa

(For the discovery and clinical application of ghrelin and other novel bioactive peptides.)

Fred Gage

(For the Discovery of Physiological Roles of Adult Neurogenesis in Mammalian Brain.)

Shimon Sakaguchi

(For the Discovery of Regulatory T cells and Their Roles in Immunological Diseases.)

Brian Druker

(For the development of a molecular-targeted therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia.)

Hiroaki Mitsuya

(For the development of anti-AIDS drugs.)

Thomas A. Steitz

(The structural basis of large ribosomal subunit function and drug development.)

Yoshinori Fujiyoshi

(Development of high-resolution electron cryo-microscopy for the determination of membrane protein structures.)

Roger Y. Tsien

(Visualization and control of molecules within living cells.)

Ronald M. Evans

(Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of nuclear receptors that link lipid-soluble hormones and vitamins to gene expression.)

Yasushi Miyashita

(Cerebral mechanisms of cognitive memory.)

Barry Marshall

(Isolation and cultivation of Helicobacter pylori - pioneering work in diagnosis and treatment -)

Koichi Tanaka

(Establishment and development of the living-donor liver transplantation system.)

Anthony R. Hunter

(Identification of Src tyrosine kinase and functional study of cell growth and tumorgenesis.)

Masatoshi Takeichi

(The discovery of cadherin and studies on the molecular mechanisms of cell-cell adhesion.)

Arnold J. Levine

(p53 as a tumor suppressor gene and an important signaling molecule involved in various cellular functions.)

Yusuke Nakamura

(Elucidation of various genetic diseases through human genome analysis.)

Elizabeth Blackburn

(Telomere and telomerase research.)

Shinya Yoshikawa

(Three Dimensional Structure of Bovine Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase and Relation with Enzyme Activity.)