Recipients of the Japan Academy Medal elected

Six scholars were elected as recipients of the 14th Japan Academy Medal at the 1115th General Meeting held on January 12th, 2018. They are:

Name	Yumiko KAMADA
Position	Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Research Subject	Carpets That Bind the World: Indian Carpets and Their Journey toward the Kyoto Gion Festival from a Perspective of Global History

Name	Masaaki KOMATSU
Position	Professor, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University
Research Subject	Elucidation of the Role of Aberrant Selective Autophagy in Pathogenic Mechanisms of Digestive Diseases

Name	Toshiro SATO
Position	Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University
Research Subject	Development of Organoid Culture System for Elucidation of Human Diseases

Name	Shinsuke SANDO
Position	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Research Subject	Development of Hyperpolarized NMR Molecular Probes for Sensing and Imaging Biological Systems

Name	So NAKAYA
Position	Assistant Professor, Academic Assembly Institute of Education, Shinshu University
Research Subject	Research on State Formation in Late Medieval Italy

Name	Akimasa HIRATA
Position	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Research Subject	Integrated Simulation Techniques for Multiphyiscs and Physiological Response and Their Application