The Japanese Society of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (JSPS) has selected the 2010 JSPS Awards, Kitagawa Award, Distinguished Service Award, and Encouragement Award as follows.
The award presentations and award ceremonies will be held at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (JSPS) to be held in Omiya, Japan, on October 8, 2010.
Academic Society Award
Mitsuru Hashida ( Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Research on Development of Precise Control Methods for Drug Pharmacokinetics and Evaluation of Their Functions
Kitagawa Award
Yoshinari Kawai (Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research)
Title: “Establishment and Application of Drug Kinetic Models in Drug Development
Merit Award
Minezo Otsuka
(Subject of the award: “Establishment of an administrative system that contributes to the smooth operation of academic societies”)
Encouragement Award
Yasuhiro Uno ( Drug Metabolism Analysis Center, Shinnihon Scientific Co.)
Title of Award: “Identification and Analysis of Drug Metabolizing Enzyme Genes in Crab-eating Macaques for Drug Discovery
Tomosuke Terada ( Department of Pharmacy, Shiga University Hospital, Shiga University of Medical Science)
Research on expression and genomic analysis of drug transporters and their clinical applications
Masahiro Hiratsuka ( Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University)
Research on SNP screening of drug-metabolizing enzyme genes and analysis of functional changes in variant enzymes
(in alphabetical order)