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8 August 2016

Daiwa Adrian Prizes 2016: Winners Announced

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Winners of the 2016 Daiwa Adrian Prizes, the prestigious awards for scientific collaboration in the UK and Japan, have been announced.

Following an assessment conducted by a panel of Fellows of the Royal Society, the Trustees of The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation have awarded four Daiwa Adrian Prizes of £10,000 to joint UK-Japan scientific research teams.

Daiwa Adrian Prizes are awarded by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on a triennial basis in recognition of significant scientific collaboration between British and Japanese research teams. They were established in 1992 and subsequently renamed to commemorate the late Lord Adrian, a founding Trustee of the Foundation, at whose initiative the Prizes were established.

Since their launch, 42 Prizes totalling £485,000 have been awarded to 84 teams representing 77 different institutions, including 36 from the UK and 39 from Japan – indicating the breadth and diversity of scientific achievement by scientists in the two countries.

The Prizes were assessed by the Royal Society’s Hook Committee, chaired by Professor Richard Morris CBEFMedSci FRS. In the Committee’s appraisal, comments ranged from ‘A truly international collaboration, longstanding, tightly interwoven and productive’ to ‘The potential impact of this research is very exciting and the underlying science captivating.’

Previous Daiwa Adrian Prizes have recognised ground-breaking work in areas as diverse as antibiotics research, plasma physics, aerospace exploration and plant-pathogen interaction.

Daiwa Adrian Prizes 2016: Winners

Ceramic Oxide Surfaces: Gas-Solid Interactions for High Temperature Electrochemical Devices
Imperial College London
Kyushu University

Professor John Kilner (Team Leader)

Professor Stephen Skinner

Mr Matthew Niania

Dr Sam Cooper

Professor Tatsumi Ishihara (Team Leader)

Professor John Druce

Professor Helena Tellez

Professor Aleksandar Staykov

Dr Taner Akbay

Materials Discovery using Extreme Conditions
University of Edinburgh
Kyoto University

Professor J. Paul Attfield  (Team Leader)

Dr Angel Arevalo-Lopez

Dr Elise Pachoud

Dr James Cumby

Dr Calum Lithgow

Professor Yuichi Shimakawa (Team Leader)

Professor Mikio Takano

Professor Takashi Saito

Understanding magnetic energy release at all scales in the solar atmosphere: from small-scale jets and flares that are seen anywhere on the sun, to large scale explosions that are hard to predict and can have a significant impact on the Earth.
University College London
University of Cambridge
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Nagoya University
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Professor Louise Harra (Team Leader)

Professor John Leonard Culthane

Dr Helen Mason

Dr Deborah Baker

Dr Sarah Matthews

Dr Hirohisa Hara (Team Leader)

Professor  Tetsuya Watanabe

Dr Shinsuke Imada

Dr Shin Toriumi

Dr Toshifumi Shimizu

Using Synthetic Human Chromosomes to understand Epigenetic Regulation of Chromosome Regulation
University of Edinburgh
Kazusa DNA Research Institute

Professor William C. Earnshaw (Team Leader)

Mr Jan Bergmann

Mr Nuno Martins

Dr Oscar Molina

Mr Jan Ruppert

Dr Hiroshi Masumoto (Team Leader)

Dr Jun-ichirou Ohzaki

Dr Megumi Nakano

Mr Nobuaki Shono

Dr Koei Okazaki

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