Kazato Research Foundation
15th (FY 2021) Award Ceremony for
Kazato Prize and Kazato Research Encouragement Prize
The Kazato Research Foundation (Chairman: Nobutaka Hirokawa) held the 15th (fiscal year2021) award ceremony for the Kazato Prize and the Kazato Research Encouragement Prize on
March 5, 2022 at the Keidanren Kaikan Hall. Prizes were presented to the following six prizewinners.
Kazato Prize
Tomohiro Nishizawa

Professor
Graduate School of Medical Life Science
Department of Medical Life Science,
Yokohama City University[Membrane protein dynamics revealed by cryo-EM]

Makoto Kuwahara

Associate Professor
Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability,
Nagoya University[Development of a spin-polarized pulse electron gunfor time-resolved transmission electron microscopy]

Kazato Research Encouragement Prize
Akira Saito

Assistant Professor
Department of Basic Pathology, School of Medicine,
Fukushima Medical University[Elucidating regulatory mechanisms of epithelial barrier
by cingulin/paracingulin]

Hideaki Kato

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Komaba Institute for Science,
The University of Tokyo[Cryo-EM analysis of intermediate structures of channelrhodopsin]

Satoshi Anada

Senior Researcher
Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Nanostructures Research Laboratory[Development of high-speed TEM using an electrostatic subframing
system and machine learning]

Yuya Morimoto

RIKEN Hakubi team leader
RIKEN, Cluster for Pioneering Research[Micro-electron diffraction with attosecond electron beams]

The award ceremony was held under measures to prevent infection. And the ceremony wasattended President of the Japanese Society of Microscopy (JSM), Chairman of JEOL Ltd. andPresident of JEOL Ltd.

Award Ceremony

Chairman’s Address
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Professor, University of Tokyo

Congratulatory Address
Congratulated the prize winners and encouraged theiraggressive activities on behalf of JSM.
Yuichi Ikuhara
President of the Japanese Society of Microscopy

Kazato Prize
Tomohiro Nishizawa
Study theme:[Membrane protein dynamics revealed by cryo-EM]
Professor
Graduate School of Medical Life Science Department ofMedical Life Science, Yokohama City University

Kazato Prize
Makoto Kuwahara
Study theme:[Development of a spin-polarized pulse electron gun fortime-resolved transmission electron microscopy]
Associate Professor
Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability,
Nagoya University

Kazato Research Encouragement Prize
Akira Saito
Study theme:[Elucidating regulatory mechanisms of epithelial barrier
by cingulin/paracingulin]
Assistant Professor
Department of Basic Pathology, School of Medicine,
Fukushima Medical University

Kazato Research Encouragement Prize
Hideaki Kato
Study theme:[Cryo-EM analysischannelrhodopsin]

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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Komaba Institutefor Science,
The University of Tokyo

Kazato Research Encouragement Prize
Satoshi Anada
Study theme:[Development of high-speed TEM using an electrostatic
subframing system and machine learning]
Senior Researcher
Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Nanostructures ResearchLaboratory

Kazato Research Encouragement Prize
Yuya Morimoto
Study theme:[Micro-electron diffraction with attosecond electron beams]
RIKEN Hakubi team leader
RIKEN, Cluster for Pioneering Research

Commemorative Photograph