Professor Jun Shirakawa (Lab of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders) has received The Masato Kasuga Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement of The Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). This award is an AASD award established in 2013 to honor a young investigator who has outstanding scientific achievements in the field of diabetes and related metabolic diseases in Asia. Professor Masato Kasuga is well known for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of insulin action and their roles in diabetes.
Awarded in recognition of Prof. Shirakawa’s outstanding scientific achievements in advancing our understanding of the signaling pathways regulating proliferation and function of pancreatic beta cells.

Award Recipients in 2022
http://www.aa-sd.org/awards/recipients2022.html

The Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD)
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