Assistant Professor Ryosei Natsukawa of the Faculty of Agriculture and Assistant Professor Kenta Hashizume of the Faculty of Science received the President's Award (Encouragement of Young Faculty Research).

The President's Award (Encouragement of Research by Young Faculty Members) was established in 2014 with the aim of recognizing young researchers who have achieved outstanding research results, fostering excellent young researchers who will lead future academic research, and improving their research motivation, thereby contributing to the improvement of the research standards at Niigata University.

We are pleased to announce that six individuals have been selected as recipients of the 12th annual award, and the award ceremony was held on Friday, October 3rd. The award recipients are listed below.
Going forward, our university will continue to recognize outstanding young researchers, contributing to the improvement of the university's research standards.

full name	Affiliation/Position	Titles of books and papers
Ryosei Natsukawa	Natural Sciences/Assistant Professor	Importance of the interplay between land cover and topography in modeling habitat selection
Kenta Hashizume	Natural Sciences/Assistant Professor	On boundedness and moduli spaces of K-stable Calabi-Yau fibrations over curves
Mayuka Nakajima	Medical and Dental Sciences/Assistant Professor	Backpack-carrying macrophage immunotherapy for periodontitis
Shoichiro Ando	Medical and Dental Hospital, Assistant Professor	Inherited C-terminal TREX1 variants disrupt homology-directed repair to cause senescence and DNA damage phenotypes in Drosophila, mice, and humans
Yutaro Mori	Medical and Dental Hospital, Assistant Professor	Targeting PDGF signaling of cancer-associated fibroblasts blocks feedback activation of HIF-1α and tumor progression of clear cell ovarian cancer
Jun Watanabe	Medical and Dental Hospital, Assistant Professor	BET bromodomain inhibition potentiates radiosensitivity in models of H3K27-altered diffuse midline glioma