JSPS Prize awarded to Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, Team Leader
January 30, 2009
WakayamaIt has been announced that the JSPS Prize will be awarded to Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama for his work on development of novel biotechnologies for animal reproduction. Dr. Wakayama is a Team Leader in the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology.
We offer our sincere congratulations to Dr. Wakayama on this honor.


For more details on the JSPS Prize, refer to the following website.
http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-jsps-prize/index.html


Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama
Teruhiko Wakayama received his BSc. and MSc. from Ibaraki University, and was awarded a PhD in reproductive biology from the University of Tokyo Department of Veterinary Anatomy in 1996. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in 1996 and spent the next two years at the Yanagimachi lab in the University of Hawaii Medical School, where he succeeded in creating the world's first cloned mouse. He was appointed to an assistant professorship at the same institution in 1998, and moved to the Rockefeller University as a research assistant professor in 1999. He spent a year as a researcher at Advanced Cell Technology before returning to Japan to take his current position at the RIKEN CDB.
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