Japan L'Oreal, the Japanese subsidiary of the global cosmetics company L'Oreal Group, held the 2019 L'Oreal-UNESCO Women's Scientist Japan Encouragement Award ceremony at the French ambassador's residence in Tokyo, and Hana Watanabe of the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University. We presented a certificate of merit and a scholarship of 28 million yen to four people including Assistant Professor Nako (4).
According to Nippon Loreal, Assistant Professor Watanabe, Research Fellow Shiori Fujimori (27), Graduate School of Agriculture and Technology, Kobe University, and Moeko Okada (27), Graduate School of Agriculture, Kobe University, were selected for the Encouragement Award. , Misaki Okahata (26), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Konan University.
Assistant Professor Watanabe has developed the world's first new fine particle material whose structure can be freely changed by an external stimulus.Researcher Fujimori succeeded for the first time in the world in synthesizing and elucidating the properties of a "heavy phenyl anion" in which the carbon of the anion of benzene was replaced with a heavy element.
Mr. Okada was praised for his research achievements aimed at elucidating the functions, such as identifying the causative gene in which hybrids of wild wheat and macaroni wheat do not grow.Mr. Okahata elucidated the mechanism by which environmental oxygen information controls the neural activity of temperature-accepting neurons.
