Chisa Shiraishi (Research Fellow, Graduate School of Science) and Akari Hashimoto (First-year doctoral student, Graduate School of Medicine) have received the 19th L’Or¨¦al-UNESCO For Women In Science Japan Incentive Award.
The awardees’ research themes are "Elucidation of Tissue-Specific Regulation of Translation" (Chisa Shiraishi) and "Elucidation of Neuronal Circuit Regulation by Microglia" (Akari Hashimoto). The award was established in 2005 by L’Or¨¦al Japan in cooperation with the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO to encourage young female scientists living in Japan in their research.
