Yamazaki-Teiichi Prizes awarded to
Dr. Masashi Kawasaki, RIKEN Team Leader, and
Dr. Piero Carninci, RIKEN Senior Research Scientist
November 20, 2007
Evaluation Section
On November 16, 2007, the Yamazaki-Teiichi Prizes were awarded to Dr. Masashi Kawasaki and Dr. Piero Carninci of RIKEN. The details of the awards are as follows.

Dr. Masashi Kawasaki
  Team Leader
  Functional Superstructure Laboratory,
  RIKEN Frontier Research System
In the field of Material, for exploration of ZnO based semiconductor technology.
Dr. Piero Carninci
  Senior Research Scientist
  Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN Discovery Research Institute
In the field of Biological Science and Technology, for the development of the cap-trapper, a key technology for isolating full-length cDNA and annotating genome functions
We offer our sincere congratulations to Dr. Kawasaki and Dr. Carninci on these honors.
Yamazaki-Teiichi Prizes
http://www.mst.or.jp/prize/index_en.html


Dr. Masashi Kawasaki
March 1989 Doctor of Engineering at the University of Tokyo
April 1989 JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher
September 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, I BM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
July 1991 Research Associate, Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 1997 Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 2001 Professor, Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University
May 2001 Team Leader, Correlated Electron Research Center (CERC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
October 2007- present Team Leader, Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group, RIKEN Frontier Research System (FRS)
October 2007- present Professor, WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University
Dr. Piero Carninci
March 1989 Doctorate in Biological Science at University of Trieste
April-Sept. 1989 Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof. C. Schneider at ICGEB, Trieste, Italy
October 1990 Researcher at TALENT (a private biotechnology company)
October 1995 STA Fellow in RIKEN Genome Science Laboratory
April 1997 Research Scientist in Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN
Tsukuba Life Science Center
April 2003- present Senior Research Scientist, Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN Discovery Research Institute; and Senior Research Scientist, Genome Informatics Exploration Team, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center
April 2006- present Adjunct Professor at Gunma University