It has been announced that 5th Japan Academy Medal 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 Japan Academy Medal, refer to the following website.
http://www.japan-acad.go.jp/en/news/2009/021201.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's 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. Wakayama was appointed to an assistant professorship at the same institution in 1998, but in 1999 moved to the Rockefeller University as a research assistant professor. 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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