Dr. Jun Nakanishi, MANA Independent Scientist, received the Young Scientist's Prize for the Commendation of Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, on April 11, 2011. The award was given for his work on "Development of Photoresponsive Cell Culture Substrates".

Grafting Poly(ethylene glycol) to a Glass Surface via a Photocleavable Linker for Light-induced Cell Micropatterning and Cell Proliferation Control
Y. Kikuchi, J. Nakanishi, H. Nakayama, T. Shimizu, Y. Yoshino, K. Yamaguchi, Y. Yoshida, and Y. Horiike
Chemistry Letters, 37, 1062-1063 (2008)

Spatiotemporal Control of Migration of Single Cells on a Photoactivatable Cell-Microarray
J. Nakanishi, Y. Kikuchi, S. Inoue, K. Yamaguchi, T. Takarada and M. Maeda
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129, 6694-6695 (2007)

Photoactivation of a substrate for Cell Adhesion under Standard Fluorescence Microscopes
J. Nakanishi, Y. Kikuchi, T. Takarada, H. Nakayama, K. Yamaguchi and M. Maed
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, 16314-16315 (2004)