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JES Young Investigator Award

Last Update: September 12, 2025

Awarded to the principal author, who is aged a maximum of 35 years or within 10 years of graduation, of a paper of excellence presented as a general subject at the Annual Congress. This award may only be conferred once to an individual member.

The affiliations are those when awarded.

The 2025 Award Tomoya Inoue (Kobe University)
Maki Umakoshi (Kyushu University)
Daisuke Otani (Kyoto University)
Shunsuke Shiode (The University of Osaka)
Takahiro Tsuno (Gunma University)
Akari Nishida (Kyoto University)
Emi Hashiuchi (Kanazawa University)
Yoshitomo Hoshino (The University of Tokyo)
Satoshi Yoshiji (Kyoto University/McGill University/Harvard University)
Eri Wada (Kyoto University)
The 2024 Award Kiyomi Abe (Tokyo Saiseikai Central Hospital/Keio University)
Naohiro Uchida (Kyushu University)
Akira Endo (Tohoku University)
Nozomi Takahashi (The University of Tokyo)
Shinya Taguchi (Yokohama City University)
Tazuru Fukumoto (Kyushu University)
Taishi Fujimura (Yamaguchi University)
Takaaki Murakami (Kyoto University)
Saishu Yoshida (The Jikei University School of Medicine)
Yutaro Ruike (Chiba University)
The 2023 Award Kosuke Inoue (Kyoto University)
Norifusa Iwahashi (Kyushu University)
Hideyuki Okuma (University of Yamanashi)
Tatsuki Ogasawara (Kyushu University)
Hisashi Kato (Kyoto Medical Center)
Hiroto Sugawara (Tohoku University)
Shiori Taga (Nagoya University)
Ayane Ninomiya (Gunma University)
Atsushi Hattori (National Center for Child Health and Development)
Masaomi Miura (The University of Tokyo)
The 2022 Award Ryo Ito (Tohoku University)
Yasuo Oguri (Kyoto University/Harvard University)
Keitaro Kanie (Kobe University)
Yusuke Kawachi (Osaka University)
Hiroki Kobayashi (Nihon University/Harvard University)
Hiroki Takahashi (Tohoku University)
Shigeki Nishitani (Osaka University)
Hirotaka Fukami (Kumamoto University)
Maya Matsushita (National Center for Global Health and Medicine)
Tsutomu Miwata (Nagoya University)
The 2021 Award Makoto Arai (Tohoku University)
Ryota Inoue (Gunma University/Yokohama City University)
Mayuko Kano (The University of Tokyo)
Emi Kawakita (Shimane University)
Yukina Takeichi (Saga University)
Shinji Takeyari (Osaka University)
Toshihiro Nakamura (Kyoto University)
Yoshitaka Hashimoto (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
Miwa Himuro (Juntendo University)
Takashi Miyata (Nagoya University)
Kosuke Mukai (Osaka University)
The 2020 Award Ryota Uehara (Gunma University)
Yohei Kanamori (Nagoya University)
Yuri Kondo (Gunma University)
Kon Dai (Shinshu University)
Hanna Deguchi (Chiba University)
Yuto Nakamura (Osaka University)
Nozomi Hanzawa (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Takahiro Fukaishi (Gunma University)
Masanori Murakami (The University of Munich)
Kentaro Mori (University of Yamanashi)
The 2019 Award Allah Nawaz (University of Toyama)
Shoichiro Izawa (Tottori University)
Hirotaka Iwasaki (Shiga University of Medical Science)
Keiko Saegusa (Gunma University)
Akina Shiga (Chiba University)
Susumu Suzui (Tohoku University)
Yuichi Takashi (Tokushima University)
Reiko Hayashi (Osaka University)
Akihito Hishikawa (Keio University)
Masanori Fujimoto (Chiba University)
Junki Miyamoto (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
The 2018 Award Shinsuke Uraki (Wakayama University)
Yugo Kanai (Kyoto University)
Kentaro Kaneko (Kyoto University)
Kenichi Sakamoto (Chiba University)
Yuki Shiimura (Kurume University)
Naoki Shimo (Osaka University)
Hironobu Tsubouchi (University of Miyazaki)
Koji Matsuo (Kyoto University)
Masaaki Yamamoto (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Hitoshi Watanabe (Kanazawa University)
The 2017 Award Chikafumi Ozone (Nagoya University)
Hayato Ogawa (Nagoya University)
Yoshinari Obata (Osaka University)
Yoshitaka Sakurai (The University of Tokyo)
Kazutaka Tsujimoto (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Gaku Nagano (Hiroshima University)
Toshifumi Nakamura (Keio University)
Hironori Bando (Kobe University)
Yu Hirata (Kobe University)
Ryusaku Matsumoto (Kobe University)
The 2016 Award Daisaku Ashikari (Nihon University/The University of Tokyo)
Yuka Inaba (Kanazawa University)
Tomoko Takiguchi (Chiba University)
Masanori Tamaki (Keio University/Tokushima University)
Hirofumi Nagao (Osaka University)
Ayako Fukunaka (Juntendo University)
Sho Matsui (Gunma University)
Shuntaro Morikawa (Hokkaido University)
Akihiro Yamauchi (Shinshu University)
Hajime Yamakage (Kyoto Medical Center)
The 2015 Award Yusaku Iwasaki (Jichi University)
Li Xiang Wang (Kyushu University)
Yukiko Kato (Kyoto University)
Yoshinaga Kawano (Keio University)
Ikki Sakuma (Chiba University)
Shugo Sasaki (Osaka University)
Sayaka Nagata (University of Miyazaki)
Seiichirou Higuchi (Chiba University)
Takuo Hirose (Tohoku University)
Yuya Fujishima (Osaka University)
Takashi Yagi (National Center for Global Health and Medicine)
The 2014 Award Tomohisa Aoyama(The University of Tokyo)
Ayaka Ito (HHMI at University of California)
Ayumi Kanno (Kobe University)
Ikuo Kimura (Kyoto University)
Yuichi Shima (Kyushu University)
Miyako Tanaka (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Megumu Tanaka (Shinshu University)
Hidekazu Nagano (Chiba University)
Daisuke Hagiwara (Nagoya University)
Kaku Matsugi (Kobe University)
The 2013 Award Hiroko Abe (Juntendo University)
Miki Iwabu (The University of Tokyo)
Takahiro Kambara (Nagoya University)
Chisayo Kozuka (University of the Ryukyus)
Tsutomu Sasaki (Gunma University)
Rie Jo (Keio University)
Takuhiro Sonoyama (Kyoto University)
Naoko Tsukamoto (Okayama University Hospital)
Naoko Hashimoto (Chiba University)
Kaoru Miyazaki (Keio University)
Akiko Yuno (Kyoto Medical Center)
The 2012 Award Akiko Katano (Gunma University)
Jun Shirakawa (Yokohama City University)
Sawako Suzuki (Chiba University)
Akiko Takikawa (University of Toyama)
Kenichiro Tanaka (Kobe University)
Motoyuki Tamaki (Juntendo University)
Kazumasa Nakao (Kyoto University)
Kazuhiro Nomura (Kobe University)
Takeya Minami (Kyoto University)
Yoshiaki Morishita (Nagoya University)
The 2011 Award Motoharu Awazawa (The University of Tokyo)
Kosei Eguchi (The University of Tokyo)
Hiroaki Etou (Kobe University)
Mashito Sakai (National Center for Global Health and Medicine)
Yasushi Hirota (The University of Tokyo)
Hidenori Fukuoka (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Toshihito Fujii (Kyoto University)
Kohji Miura (Osaka University)
Kohei Yamamizu (Kyoto University)
Takahiro Yoshizawa (Shinshu University)
Sumiko Yoshida (The University of Tokushima)
The 2010 Award Kotaro Azuma (The University of Tokyo)
Teruhide Koyama (Shinshu University)
Takayoshi Sasako (The University of Tokyo)
Masaki Takagi (Keio University)
Mitsuhisa Tabata (Keio University)
Masao Doi (Kyoto University)
Akinobu Nakamura (Yokohama City University)
Rihito Miyamoto (Kyoto University)
Eisaku Mori (Kyoto University)
Nobuko Yamada (Kyoto University)
The 2009 Award Junta Imai (Tohoku University)
Chie Ebato (Juntendo University)
Masashi Okamura (The University of Tokyo)
Kazuma Kaneko (The University of Tokyo)
Yuka Shindo (Shinshu University)
Daisuke Taura (Kyoto University)
Kenichi Takayama (The University of Tokyo)
Yasuyo Nakajima (Gunma University)
Shiho Fujisaka (University of Toyama)
Takashi Matsuzaka (University of Tsukuba)
The 2008 Award Takeshi Akama (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Masato Iwabu (The University of Tokyo)
Naofumi Oyamada (Kyoto University)
Naoki Kumashiro (Juntendo University)
Isao Kurihara (Keio University)
Takahiro Sato (Kurume University)
Shiho Nakayama (Juntendo University)
Satoshi Narumi (Keio University)
Satoshi Nishimura (The University of Tokyo)
Koichi Fujita (Osaka University)
The 2007 Award Takeshi Inagaki (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Ryohei Umezawa (Gunma University)
Shinsuke Ohi (Gunma University)
Kazuiro Hasegawa (Keio University)
Michio Noguchi (Kyoto University)
Masayuki Hayashi (Nagoya University)
Kazuhiko Horiguchi (Gunma University)
Tomokazu Matsuda (Kobe University)
Asuka Mano (Nippon Medical University)
Satoshi Yoshino (Gunma University)
The 2006 Award Yumiko Oishi (The University of Tokyo)
Masanori Ono (Keio University)
Takuya Shinbara (University of Miyazaki)
Takehiro Suzuki (Tohoku University)
Iseki Takamoto (The University of Tokyo)
Tomohiro Tanaka (Kyoto University)
Toshiyuki Hibuse (Osaka University)
Naofumi Fukuda (Yamaguchi University)
Takanori Boku (Kyoto University)
Maiko Moriyama (Kurume University)
The 2005 Award Toyoyoshi Uchida (Juntendo University)
Hajime Ooishi (The University of Tokyo)
Takeshi Kanda (Keio University)
Hajime Kanda (Kobe University)
Toru Kusakabe (Kyoto University)
Shigeki Gondo (Kyushu University)
Yoshifumi Tamura (Juntendo University)
Kenji Mori (National Cardiovascular Center)
Takashi Yazawa (University of Fukui)
Kenichi Yokota (Keio University)
The 2004 Award Satoshi Inoue (Kobe University)
Naoto Kubota (The University of Tokyo)
Ryo Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)
Masakatsu Sone (Kyoto University)
Takashi Nomiyama (Juntendo University)
WuQiang Fan (Kyushu University)
Fumihiko Furuya (University of Yamanashi)
Hirotaka Masuda (Keio University)
Kazutoshi Miyashita (Kyoto University)
Takami Yurugi (Kyoto University)
The 2003 Award Yoshihisa Okamoto (Osaka University)
Takehide Ogihara (The University of Tokyo)
Hirochika Kitagawa (The University of Tokyo)
Tsugumichi Saito (Gunma University)
Takuya Tomaru (Gunma University)
Koji Nakabayashi (Kobe University)
Koshi Hashimoto (Gunma University)
Reiko Hanada (Kurume University)
Norikazu Maeda (Osaka University)
Tsutomu Wada (Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University)
The 2002 Award Kozo Akino (Nagasaki University)
Tomohiko Urano (The University of Tokyo)
Seiichi Oyadomari (Kumamoto University)
Dan Kawamori (Osaka University)
Takayoshi Suganami (Kyoto University)
Koji Toshinai (Miyazaki Medical College)
Hitoshi Nishizawa (Osaka University)
Noriko Makita (The University of Tokyo)
Toshimasa Yamauchi (The University of Tokyo)
Eijiro Yamada (Gunma University)
Michiko Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)
The 2001 Award Masahiro Adachi (Kyushu University)
Atsushi Ozawa (Gunma University)
Masahiko Kishimoto (Kobe University)
Koichiro Kuwahara (Kyoto University)
Mitsuyo Shintani (Kyoto University)
Noriko Takahashi (Okazaki National Research Institutes)
Hideki Tamura (Nippon Medical University)
Yoshiyuki Hattori (Kyoto University)
Ichiro Yamanaka (Kyoto University)
Tetsuya Mizutani (Fukui Medical University)
Tetsuyuki Yasuda (Osaka University)
The 2000 Award Takahiro Ishizuka (Gunma University)
Yutaka Umayahara (Osaka University)
Ken Ebihara (Kyoto University)
Noriyuki Ouchi (Osaka University)
Ken Kishida (Osaka University)
Naoki Sawada (Kyoto University)
Hideki Chusho (Kyoto University)
Toshiyuki Nishio (Tohoku University)
Masaki Harada (Kyoto University)
Takeshi Hosoya (Gunma University)
Hiroshi Hosoda (National Cardiovascular Center)
Akihiro Yasoda (Kyoto University)
Jun Yamashita (Kyoto University)
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