【Record of winning awards 】

・March 23-24, 2013
Nao Hasegawa was awarded the best oral presentation award
at the 6th East Asian Pacific Student Workshop on Nano-Biomedical Engineering, Singapore.
Title: Early diagnosis of lymph node using micro-CT

March 27, 2012
Yukiko Watanabe was awarded the Presidential Prize for Excellence (FY 2011).
Sachiko Horie was awarded the Dean of the Graduate School of Award (FY2011).

March 16, 2011
Professor Kodama' paper was awarded
2011 IADR/AADR William J. Gies Award for Biomaterials and Bioengineering Research.（San Diego, California）
Periodontal gene transfer by ultrasound and nano/microbubbles.
J Dent Res. 2009 Nov;88(11):1008-13.
by Chen R, Chiba M, Mori S, Fukumoto M, Kodama T.

July 3-4, 2009
Ms. Yukio Watanabe was awarded the best poster award at the 25th Annual Meeting,
Japan Society of Drug Delivery System (Tokyo, Japan).
Title: Development of NIS gene expression imaging system using124I: gene delivery method using nanobubbles and ultrasound.

October 30- November 1, 2008
Dr. Noriko Tomita was awarded the distinguished subject of a speech at the 46th Annual Meeting,
Japan Society of Clinical Oncology (Nagoya, Japan).
Title: Development of regional lymph node metastasis imaging system using high-frequency ultrasound imaging system.

October 20-21, 2008
Dr. Kousuke Ohki was awarded the first-place prize at the 53rd Annual Meeting,
Japanese Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (Tokushima, Japan).
Title: Development of oral cancer diagnosis system model based on tumor angiography using nanobubbles and ultrasound.

October 20-21, 2008
Dr. Hitoshi Miyashita was awarded the first-place prize at the 53rd Annual Meeting,
Japanese Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (Tokushima, Japan).
Title: Development of a novel cancer therapy by delivering anti-cancer drugs and anti-tumour molecules using nanobubbles and ultrasound.

June 30- July 2, 2008
Dr. Rui Chen was awarded the Distinguished Presentation Award at 2008
Japanese Society for Experimental Mechanics, Annual Conference on Experimental Mechanics (Sapporo, Japan)
Title: Development of a non-virus method for delivering genes into parodontium.

May 18, 2007
Professor Kodama was awarded the 8th Encouragement Prize by the Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine, 2007
Title: Gene delivery efficiency by sonoporation: bubble characteristics

May 28 - June 1, 2006
Professor Kodama was awarded the Paper Presenter Award at the 11th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound
in Medicine and Biology, WFUM’B 2006 (Seoul, South Korea).
Title: Delivery of sodium/iodide symporter therapy using nanobubbles with ultrasound.

May 28 - June 1, 2006
Atsuko Aoi was awarded the Paper Presenter Award at the 11th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound
in Medicine and Biology, WFUM’B 2006 (Seoul, South Korea).
Title: HSV-tk/GCV cytotoxic Gene Therapy using ultrasound and nanobubbles.

May 28 - June 1, 2006
Atsuko Aoi was awarded the Paper Presenter Award at the 11th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound
in Medicine and Biology, WFUM’B 2006 (Seoul, South Korea).
Title: Effects of anti-cancer drug of cisplatin using nanobubbles and uｌｔrasound.