The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) (Kazuhiro Hono, President) has selected the following scientists as the winners of the NIMS Award 2022.
Awardee
Prof. Teruo Okano
(Emeritus Professor and Specially Appointed Consultant, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, JAPAN / Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Director, Cell Sheet Tissue Engineering Center, School of Medicine and College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, USA)
Prof. Kazuhiko Ishihara
(Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, JAPAN / Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)
Prof. Donald E. Ingber
(Founding Director and Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA / Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, USA / Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA)
The three scientists will be receiving the NIMS Award 2022 for their outstanding achievements on an international level in the field of “Functional Materials,” specifically “biomaterials research/science leading to innovative progress of medical technologies”: Prof. Okano for the “development of cell sheet engineering using temperature-responsive polymers and its application to regenerative medicine,” Prof. Ishihara for the “pioneering work in the development of biomimetic polymer biomaterials and their medical applications,” and Prof. Ingber for the “proposal of the cellular tensegrity model and the invention of organ-on-a-chip technology.”
The Award Ceremony and a series of the Award Winning Lecture will take place at the Tokyo International Forum on November 14, 2022, as a part of NIMS WEEK 2022.
