Dr. Susumu Seino will be awarded a Certificate of Honor, US$150,000 and a Japanese objet d’art at the award ceremony on March 7th, 2018.

The Selection Committee highly recognized his extensive and groundbreaking contributions over years to many landmark discoveries in cellular signaling pathways regulating insulin secretion, which is the key to understand molecular pathogenesis and treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Susumu Seino was therefore selected a Prize winner of this year.

～ 2017 Selection Committee Members ～
Dr. Masato Kasuga (Chairman)
Honorary President
National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan
Dr. Hiroshi Yamamoto
Adviser and Professor Emeritus
Kanazawa University, Japan
Dr. Toshihiko Yada
Professor, Department of Physiology, Division of Integrative Physiology
Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Japan
Dr. Daniel J. Drucker
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Canada
Dr. Takashi Kadowaki
Professor and Chairman
Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan