Everfront Award in PPSSCCR

Everfront Award for Stem Cells and Cancer Research

Everfront Award will be presented by the committee of the Pan Pacific Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Research (PPSSC) to an individual on the basis of world class research contributions in the field of stem cell and cancer researches. The contributions can be preclinical, clinical or
translational work. The award consists of monetary value (including travel expenses and accommodation) and a plaque to be given at the annual meeting of PPSSC.

List of Everfront Award

2011 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2011
  • Distinguished University Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair
  • Executive Director, Center of Excellence for Aging, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair – USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
  • Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology and Biomedical Sciences College of Arts and Sciences and College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Associate Professor (Tenured) Professor 1989, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Psychology, Physiology and Biophysics
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry
  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Behavioral Biology
  • Professor (Research), Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Division of Biology and Medicine

2012 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2012
Kwok-Fai So, Ph.D. 蘇國輝 院士
  • Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Professor in Neuroscience, the University of Hong Kong
  • Director, GHM Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan University, China, Guangzhou, China.

2013 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2013
Wise Young, MD, PhD 楊詠威
  • Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience at Rutgers University
  • Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience at Rutgers University
  • Founding Director, W. M. Keck Centor For  Collaborative Neuroscience

2014 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2014
  • Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, Okayama University
  • President of International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

2015 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2015
  • Professor and Chair, Dept. of Stem Cell Biology and Histology & Dept. of Anatomy and Anthropology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

  • Honor & Award
    • Incitement Award of the Japanese Association of Anatomists (1999)
    • Incitement Award of the Japanese Society of Microscopy (2003)
    • Prizes for Science and Technology, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (2011) Government

2016 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2016
Dr. Rutledge Ellis-Behnke
  • Director, Nanomedicine Translational Think Tank, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Germany

2017 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2017
  • Distinguished Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair , University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.

  • Director, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair , University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida

  • Honor & Award

    • Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

    • Fellow of American Institute for Medical And Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

2018 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2018
Shan Ping Yu, Ph.D. 于山平
  • O. Wayne Rollins Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine

  • Honor & Award
    • The world Health Organization Postdoctoral Fellowship
    • American Heart Association and Bugher Award
    • Honorary Professor, ZheJiang University School of Medicine, Hong Zhou, China
    • Honorary and Lecture Professor, Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing, China
    • Hai-Ju Scholar, Outstanding oversea scholar, program, Beijing, China
    • Oversea member of the Royal Society of Medicine, England

2019 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2019
Ling Wei, Ph.D. 魏玲
  • Professor with Tenure at The John E. Steinhaus Professor of Stem Cell Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Full Professor, department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Director, Human Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University
  • Honor & Award
    • American Heart Association and Bugher Award (2000)
    • American Heart Association Established Investigator Award (EIA)
    • Dean’s award for outstanding research (2006, 2008)

2021 Prize Winner

Everfront Award 2022
  • Senior Investigator in the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at the Joslin Diabetes Center.
  • Principal Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
  • Honor & Award
    • Eleanor and Miles Shore Scholar in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and received the Hazel K. Stiebeling Lectureship from Florida State University, the Armen Tashjian Award for Excellence in Endocrine Research, and the J Denis McGarry Prize from Montreal Diabetes Center.

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