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2015 Award Winners

JSSX Award

Mikihisa Takano (Graduate School of Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima University)
Title: Studies on Drug Transport and Toxicity and Their Regulation in the Kidney and Lung

JSSX Award for Young Scientists

Makiko Shimizu (Laboratory of Pharmacokinetics, Showa Pharmaceutical University)
Title: Studies on the Polymorphism of Non-P450 Drug Metabolizing Enzyme, Flavin-containing Oxygenase, and the Basis for the Individual Differences in Function including the Interaction

Yoshiyuki Shirasaka (Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences)
Title: Studies on the Control Mechanisms of Drug Absorption Kinetics via Transporters and Metabolizing Enzymes

Tomomi Furuhata (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University)
Title: In vitro Pharmacokinetic Studies to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Human Drug Efficacy and Toxicity and to Improve the Evaluation of Their Effects

JSSX Award for Young Scientists with Dedication to Drug Discovery

Naoki Ishiguro (Kobe Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co.)
Title: Enterprise Research for Prediction of Drug Interactions Based on In Vitro Transporter Data

Kazuhiro Tezuka (Astellas Pharma Inc., Pharmacokinetics Laboratory)
Title: Development of an in vitro assay system to evaluate hepatic metabolism and subsequent bile duct/vascular excretion of drugs and its application to drug discovery