Based on the review of the nominations in accordance with the Rules of the Japanese Pharmacokinetics Society and the Selection Rules for the Society Awards, the Society Awards, the Encouragement Awards, and the Kitagawa Award for Drug Discovery and Contributions to Drug Discovery were selected as follows.
As there were no applications for the Distinguished Service Award, it was decided that there would be no review.
The award ceremony will be held at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (JSPS) on October 10 (Thu), 2013 at the Tokyo Tower Hall Funabori, and the award lecture will follow the meeting.
The 2013 Society Award
Ikumi Tamai ( Kanazawa University)
Title of Award: “Studies on Pharmacokinetics and Physiological Mechanisms Based on Transporters
Encouragement Award
Yasuhiro Kozuki ( Graduate School of Medicine, Tottori University)
Development of a Humanized Mouse Model of Drug Metabolism Using Human Artificial Chromosomes
Satoru Koyanagi (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University)
Research on the mechanism of circadian variation of pharmacokinetic regulators based on clock genes
Masanori Tachikawa (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University)
Title of Award: “Elucidation of the mechanism of regulation of substance dynamics in tissues based on localization analysis of transporter expression
Kitagawa Award for Drug Discovery
Zenzaburo Totsuka ( Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University)
(Formerly Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. / JCL Bioassay Co.)
Subject of the award: “Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis by LC-MS/MS for Drug Discovery and Development