Reason for the award

Winner: Yoshiro Takei (Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)
Research topic: Exploration of novel hormones involved in osmotic adaptation to the marine environment
Abstract

Award Winner: Hiroyuki Takeda (Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
Research Topic: Elucidation of the Universal Mechanisms of Vertebrate Developmental Processes Using Small Fish
Abstract