The prize is for distinguished services in life science research, especially health, and stands at 20 million Yen (~200.000 €). This year’s winners: Professor Tadaomi TAKENAWA of Kobe University, a researcher at Kobe University Medical Department who studies phosphoinositol-related signal transduction by mass spectrometry, and Professor Yoshinori WATANABE of the University of Tokyo whose focus is on chromosome dynamics
Uehara Memorial Foundation press release, December 2012
Tadaomi TAKENAWA and Yoshinori WATANABE win 2012 Takehashi Uehara Memorial prize