Tetsuya Higashiyama

Institution
Nagoya University

Country
Japan

Field
Life Sciences

Higashiyama, vice director of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, won the 2017 Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award for his discovery of the molecules that guide pollen tube formation.

(Photo: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules)

AWARDS
  • 2017 Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award

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