Endocrine Abstracts

T Yoshimura, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Abstract

Prof. Takashi Yoshimura graduated from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Nagoya University in 1996. In 1995 he was awarded the JSPS Research Fellowship for young scientists and between 1996 and 1999 he worked as a Research Associate at the School of Agriculture, Nagoya University. At the same institution he was Assistant professor until 2005 and later became the Associate Professor, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University. He is currently a professor at the same institution and Director of the Avian Bioscience Research Center, Nagoya University.

Prof. Yoshimura was awarded the Young scientist award from the Japanese Society for Chronobiology in 2004 and in 2005 he received the Japan Prize of Agricultural Science for Young Scientist from the foundation of agricultural Sciences of Japan. In 2009 he received the JSPS prize and the Japanese Society of Animal Science Prize.