Awards

Nobel Laureates

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Year conferred Name Position when the prize was conferred Field
2018 Tasuku Honjo Deputy Director-General and Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study Physiology ・ Medicine Award

Lasker Awards

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Year conferred Name Position when the prize was conferred
1989 Yasutomi Nishizuka Kobe University Professor（ Graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine)

The Kyoto Prize

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Year conferred Name Position when the prize was conferred Remark
2016 Tasuku Honjo Professor Emeritus Bioscience （Molecular Biology ・ Cell Biology ・Neurobiology）

Order of Culture

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Year conferred Name Position when the prize was conferred Remark
2015 Shigetada Nakanishi Professor Emeritus Neuroscience
2013 Tasuku Honjo Visiting Professor Medical Chemistry ・ Molecular Immunology
1972 Osamu Hayaishi Kyoto University Professor Biochemistry
1940 Takaoki Sasaki Former professor of medical school

Persons of Cultural Merits

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Year conferred Name Position when the prize was conferred Remark
2017 Shuh Narumiya Professor Emeritus, Director and Specially Appointed Professor, Medical Innovation Center, Graduate School of Medicine Pharmacology ・ Biochemistry
2006 Shigetada Nakanishi Professor Emeritus Neuroscience
2005 Tomoh Masaki Professor Emeritus Pharmacology
2000 Tasuku Honjo Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Molecular Immunology
1991 Shosaku Numa Professor of Medicine
1972 Osamu Hayaishi Professor of Medicine

The Imperial Prize, Japan Academy Prize, Duke of Edinburgh Prize

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Date of conferring Name Position when the prize was conferred Prize Title
2021/3 Kazuhiro Iwai Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Japan Academy Prize Discovery of Linear Ubiquitin Chains and Analyses of their Roles in Inflammatory Responses
2020/4 Michinori Saitou Professor, Institute for Advanced Study and Director, ASHBi Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize Mechanism and In Vitro Reconstitution of Germ Cell Development
2016/1 Osamu Takeuchi Professor, Virus Research Institute Japan Academy Academic Encouragement Award Elucidation of molecular mechanisms regulating inflammation in innate immunity
2014/3 Koichi Tanaka Professor Emeritus Japan Academy Prize Establishment and Development of Living Donor Liver Transplantation
2014/2 Michinori Saitou Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Japan Academy Academic Encouragement Award Elucidation of mouse germ cell developmental mechanisms and their in vitro reconstruction
2013/6 Yo-ichi Nabeshima Professor Emeritus Japan Academy Prize Control of Homeostasis by Newly
Discovered Klotho Gene Family
2007/6 So Iwata Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Japan Academy Academic Encouragement Award Crystal structure analysis of membrane proteins
2006/7 Shuh Narumiya Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize Studies on the Prostaglandin Receptors
2004/6 Shoichiro Tsukita Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Japan Academy Prize Molecular Basis for Intercellular Barriers in the Epithelium
1998/6 Kazuo Sasaki Professor Emeritus Japan Academy Prize Studies on Integrative Functions of the Central Nervous System
1997/7 Shigetada Nakanishi Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize Studies on Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmission
1996/6 Tasuku Honjo Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize Studies on Regulation of Immunoglobulin Class Switching
1994/6 Tomoh Masaki Professor of Medicine Japan Academy Prize Endothelin, its Identification and Biological Activity
1985/6 Shosaku Numa Professor of Medicine Japan Academy Prize Studies on the Molecular Mechanism of Neural Signal Transmission
1978/6 Hideo Nishimura Professor Emeritus Japan Academy Prize Studies on the Origin of Human Birth Defects
1972/6 Kozo Okamoto Professor Emeritus Japan Academy Prize Basic Studies on Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension
1967/5 Osamu Hayaishi Professor of Medicine Japan Academy Prize Studies on Oxygenases
1959/5 Ren Kimura Japan Academy Prize Studies on Thiamine and Related Substances
1959/5 Motonori Fujiwara Japan Academy Prize Studies on Thiamine and Related Substances
1951/5 Ko Hirasawa Japan Academy Prize Studies on the Extra-pyramidal System
1945/6 Shun-ichi Mashita Japan Academy Prize Functional Analysis of the Cardiovascular Diseases
1936/6 Sasaki Takaoki Japan Academy Prize Experimentelle Erzeugung des Lebercarcinoms durch Fütterung mit o-Amidoazotoluol
1930/5 Adachi Buntaro Japan Academy Prize Studies on the Arterial System of the Japanese
1924/6 Sasaki Takaoki Japan Academy Prize Studies on Bacterial Degradation of Protein and Constituent Amino Acids, and Synthesis of Amino Acids
1922/5 Kenji Kiyono Japan Academy Prize Forschungen über Vitale Färbung
1918/5 Akira Fujinami Japan Academy Prize Investigations on Schistosoma japonica

Medal with Purple Ribbon

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Date of conferring Name Position when the prize was conferred Remark
2018/11/3 Ryoichiro Kageyama Professor, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences Molecular Biology ・Developmental Biology research
2018/4/29 Seishi Ogawa Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Oncology research
2012/4/29 Toru Kita Professor Emeritus Cardiology research
2011/4/29 Kazuwa Nakao Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Internal Medicine research
2010/11/3 Yo-ichi Nabeshima Professor Emeritus Molecular Biology and Molecular Pathology research
2005/4/28 Shuh Narumiya Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Pharmacological research
1997/11/3 Osamu Yoshida Professor Emeritus Urologic Oncology
1997/4/29 Kazue Ozawa Professor Emeritus Surgery
1996/11/3 Yoshinori Itokawa Professor, Graduate School of Medicine Environmental Medicine