It has been announced that the Osaka Science Prize will be awarded to Dr. Yoshiki Sasai for his work on Mechanistic Study and in vitro Recapitulation of Brain Development. Dr. Sasai is a Group Director in the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology.
The prize is awarded to a person who has made a major contribution to physical science, engineering, agriculture, biology, medicine, pharmacology or information science by helping to advance scientific understanding and developing new technology. The prize, awarded to two awardees each year, was established in 1983.
An award ceremony and memorial lecture is scheduled to take place on October 29 at the Osaka Science & Technology Center. The proceedings will be conducted in Japanese and will be open to the public free-of-charge.
If you are interested in attending, sign up on the website shown below.

For more details on the Osaka Science Prize, refer to the following website.
http://www.ostec.or.jp/pln/pri/kagaku/frame.html (in Japanese Only)

Dr. Yoshiki Sasai

2008-present	Visiting Professor, National Institute of Physiological Sciences
2007	Visiting Professor, Lund University Faculty of Medicine
2003-present	Affiliated Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
2000-present	Group Director at RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe
1998-2003	Professor, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University
1996-1998	Associate Professor, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1993-1996	Research fellow at UCLA School of Medicine (Professor E. De Robertis)
1993	Awarded PhD (on the neural specific transcriptional regulators HES family )
1988-1992	PhD course at Kyoto University School of Medicine (Professor S.Nakanishi)
1986-1988	Internship in general and emergency medicine

Award Presentation and Commemorative Lecture (October 29, 2010)