The following awards, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Encouragement Award for 2011 were selected based on the rules and regulations of the Japanese Pharmacokinetics Society and the selection process for the awards.
As there were no applications for the Kitagawa Award, it was decided that there would be no review.
The award lecture and award ceremony will be held at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (JSPS) in Hiroshima on November 17, 2011.
Society Award
Shinji Yamashita (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Setsunan University)
Title of the Award: “Comprehensive Studies on Prediction and Improvement of Gastrointestinal Absorption of Drugs from Cell to Clinical Human
Merit Award
Yasuo Ohno (National Institute of Health Sciences)
Title of Award: “Administrative Contribution to the Development of Pharmacokinetic Research
Encouragement Award (in alphabetical order)
Katsuo Inoue (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University)
(Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University) “Exploration and identification of transporters involved in pharmacokinetics and their application to drug discovery and clinical support
Ryuhei Takada (The University of Tokyo Hospital)
Title of Award “Analysis of the Regulatory Mechanism of Bile Lipid Dynamics via Transporters in the Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver
Tetsunobu Hamada (Department of Pharmacology, Kumamoto University Hospital, Japan)
Practice of personalized medicine and analysis of pharmacokinetic variables of imatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia