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Recipients of Academic Awards and Other Prizes in 2016

The 2016 Society Award

Shigeru Ohta (Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Health Sciences, Hiroshima University)
Title of Award “Studies on Drug Metabolism by Cytochrome P450 Using In vitro/in vivo Metabolic Models

Encouragement Award

Yoshiyuki Kubo (Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama)
Title of Award “Studies on Regulation Mechanisms of Absorption and Efflux of Basic Drugs at the Blood-Tissue Barrier

Ryoichi Fujiwara (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University)
Title of Award “Functional elucidation of UDP-glucuronyltransferase in hepatic and extrahepatic tissues

Kitagawa Award for Drug Discovery

Takashi Izumi (Kihara Memorial Yokohama Life Science Foundation)
Title of Award “Development and Promotion of Pharmacokinetic Research in Drug Discovery and Development

Drug Discovery Contribution and Encouragement Award

Haruka Nishimuta (Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.)
Research on Quantitative Prediction of First-Pass Metabolism and Species Differences in the Small Intestine

Koji Yamaguchi (Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
Title: “Application of Mechanism-Based Model Analysis to Drug Discovery Research

Distinguished Service Award

Yoshinobu Yoshimura (Kyoto Pharmaceutical Industry Co., Ltd.)
Title: “Prodrug Drug Discovery Strategy Using Pharmacokinetic Knowledge and Contribution to the Financial Health of the Society