RNC Laboratory Head Tomoko Abe presented with a 7th Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Contribution Award
RIKEN
June 23, 2009
RNC Laboratory Head Tomoko Abe was recently presented with the SCJ President Award, one of the 7th Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Contribution Awards, for her work on plant breeding using heavy ion beam irradiation. She shares the award with Dr. Nobuhisa Fukunishi, Laboratory Head, RNC Beam Dynamics & Diagnostics Team, Design to Cost Engineering Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, and Mr. Kenichi Suzuki, SUNTORY Flowers Ltd.
A presentation ceremony was held in Kyoto on June 12.
Reference:
http://www.congre.co.jp/sangakukan/top.html (in Japanese only)
About Dr. Tomoko Abe
Education
| 1989 |
PhD, Agricultural Science, Tohoku University |
Employment
| 1988 |
JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientist, Institute of Genetic Ecology, Tohoku University |
| 1990 |
Science and Technology Agency, Special Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Regulation of Biomechanisms Laboratory, RIKEN |
| 1991 |
Research Scientist, Chemical Regulation of Biomechanisms Laboratory, RIKEN |
| 1998 |
Senior Research Scientist, Plant Functions Laboratory, RIKEN |
| 2005 |
Senior Research Scientist, Accelerator Applications Research Group, RIKEN |
| 2006 |
Deputy Laboratory Head, Radiation Biology Team, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science |
| 2008 |
Laboratory Head, Radiation Biology Team, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science |
Honors
| 1994 |
The Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants Award for Young Scientists |
| 2002 |
Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology Award for Technical Advance |
| 2004 |
Japanese Society for DNA Polymorphism Research Award |
| 2005 |
Japanese Society for DNA Polymorphism Research Award |
| 2007 |
2007 Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category), Commendation for Science and Technology by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| 2007 |
Invention Encouragement Prize, FY 2007 Kanto Local Commendation for Invention |
The presentation ceremony
Left to right: Dr. Nobuhisa Fukunishi, Dr. Tomoko Abe and Mr. Ken-ichi Suzuki
Dr. Tomoko Abe explains development of Verbena hybrida to Seiko Noda, Minister of State
for Science and Technology Policy