Shigeru Kuratani

Institution
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

Country
Japan

Field
Life Sciences

Kuratani received the 2025 Japan Academy Prize for pioneering research in evolutionary developmental biology, elucidating how vertebrate body structures evolved through developmental mechanisms linking embryology, morphology and evolution.

(Photo: RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research)

AWARDS
  • 2025 Japan Academy Prize

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