On June 28, 2024, Dr. Hidenori Ito, the Special Postdoctoral Researcher of iPS Cell Advanced Characterization and Development Team received the Young Investigator Award for his research achievement entitled “Development of a disease model for von Hippel-Lindau syndrome using patient-specific iPS cells”.

In addition, Dr. Yun-Hsuan Chang, the Special Postdoctoral Researcher in the same team, gave a presentation entitled “The therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EV) in human disease”, and Mr. Tomoya Shimizu, Student Researcher Scientist, gave a presentation entitled “Elucidating pathogenesis of Wolf-Horschhonr syndrome using patient-derived human induced pluripotent stem cells” and received the English Presentation Awards.

These awards were presented by The Japanese Tissue Culture Association.