DATE2021.07.02 #Awards & Prizes

Professor Keisuke Goda Receives the 2021 Hosoya Eto Memorial Prize

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Professor Keisuke Goda

Professor Keisuke Goda of the Department of Chemistry has received the Eto Hosoya Memorial Prize from the Futaba Electronics Foundation. Goro Eto and Reiji Hosoya, who established Futaba Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. as a pioneer of the electronics industry in Japan, established the foundation in 1986 with the aim of establishing a funding organization that would help promote science and technology in Japan and inspire and encourage aspiring individuals. The award recognizes individuals and organizations that have made outstanding achievements in research, development, and industrial promotion of basic technologies in the fields of natural science and technology in Japan and in industrial society.

Professor Keisuke Goda has been recognized for his innovative ultrafast molecular imaging and ultrafast molecular spectroscopy using lasers and his data-driven research that enables the discovery of unknown biological phenomena, the elucidation of functions, and the development of applications by generating hypotheses from vast amounts of high-dimensional data. The award recognizes the impact of his research achievements to date on biology and medicine. Specifically, the award recognizes the company's high-speed cell analysis methods, including the intelligent imaging active cell selection method published in Cell in 2018 ,Raman flow cytometry published in Science Advances in 2019 , and the Raman imaging active cell selection method published in Nature Communications in 2020. High-speed cell analysis methods have been recognized. In addition, Professor Goda's recent research on novel coronavirus infection-related thrombosis using these methods is of high social significance and holds great promise. His contribution to industry through CYBO Corporation, a venture company he founded to commercialize the Intelligent Image-Active Cell Selection Method, was also highly evaluated.

From the University, Professor Masami Hagiya (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology) and Professor Emeritus Hidetoshi Yokoi (Institute of Industrial Science) received this prize in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

We congratulate Professor Keisuke Goda on his award and look forward to his continued success.

Hosoya Eto Memorial Prize 2021
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(Responsibility: Professor Tetsuya Hasegawa, Department of Chemistry)