Keio Medical Science Prize

Check all the winners of Keio Medical Science Prize.
Year Winner Winner Work
2013 Victor Ambros Discovery of microRNAs as a new class of gene regulators.
2013 Shigekazu Nagata Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis and its physiology.
2012 Steven Rosenberg Development of Effective Immunotherapies for Patients with Cancer.
2012 Hiroyuki Mano Discovery of a lung cancer oncogene EML4-ALK and development of molecular targeted therapy.
2011 Philip A. Beachy Identification of Hedgehog, a key molecule in development, and its medical applications.
2011 Keiji Tanaka Discovery of proteasome and elucidation of its physiological functions.
2010 Jules A. Hoffmann Discovery of insect-innate immune system and Toll receptor.
2010 Shizuo Akira Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of innate immune response for microbes.
2009 Jeffrey M. Friedman For the discovery of leptin and study of its physiological functions.
2009 Kenji Kangawa For the discovery and clinical application of ghrelin and other novel bioactive peptides.
2008 Fred Gage For the Discovery of Physiological Roles of Adult Neurogenesis in Mammalian Brain.
2008 Shimon Sakaguchi For the Discovery of Regulatory T cells and Their Roles in Immunological Diseases.
2007 Brian Druker For the development of a molecular-targeted therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia.
2007 Hiroaki Mitsuya For the development of anti-AIDS drugs.
2006 Thomas A. Steitz The structural basis of large ribosomal subunit function and drug development.
2005 Yoshinori Fujiyoshi Development of high-resolution electron cryo-microscopy for the determination of membrane protein structures.
2004 Roger Y. Tsien Visualization and control of molecules within living cells.
2003 Ronald M. Evans Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of nuclear receptors that link lipid-soluble hormones and vitamins to gene expression.
2003 Yasushi Miyashita Cerebral mechanisms of cognitive memory.
2002 Barry Marshall Isolation and cultivation of Helicobacter pylori - pioneering work in diagnosis and treatment -
2002 Koichi Tanaka Establishment and development of the living-donor liver transplantation system.
2001 Anthony R. Hunter Identification of Src tyrosine kinase and functional study of cell growth and tumorgenesis.
2001 Masatoshi Takeichi The discovery of cadherin and studies on the molecular mechanisms of cell-cell adhesion.
2000 Arnold J. Levine p53 as a tumor suppressor gene and an important signaling molecule involved in various cellular functions.
2000 Yusuke Nakamura Elucidation of various genetic diseases through human genome analysis.
1999 Elizabeth Blackburn Telomere and telomerase research.
1999 Shinya Yoshikawa Three Dimensional Structure of Bovine Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase and Relation with Enzyme Activity.
1998 Judah Folkman
1998 Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
1997 Robert Weinberg
1997 Tadatsugu Taniguchi
1996 Stanley B. Prusiner
1996 Shigetada Nakanishi