Five BRI researchers win 2024 Niigata University Best Paper Award

Five BRI researchers have received the 2024 Niigata University Best Paper Award.

This award recognizes outstanding contributions published in internationally renowned journals and provides research funding to further support their work. It aims to inspire researchers at Niigata University while enhancing the institution's global visibility in academic research.

List of BRI awardees

BRI Department	Name	Award-winning paper
System Pathology for Neurological Disorders - Laboratory for Evolutionary Brain Pathology	Yuuki Ishita	"Co-option of an Astacin Metalloprotease Is Associated with an Evolutionarily Novel Feeding Morphology in a Predatory Nematode" doi:10.1093/molbev/msad266 Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Neurology	Shintaro Tsuboguchi	"TDP-43 differentially propagates to induce antero- and retrograde degeneration in the corticospinal circuits in mouse focal ALS models" doi:10.1007/s00401-023-02615-8 Published in Acta Neuropathologica Press release
Advanced Treatment of Neurological Diseases Branch	Manabu Natsumeda	"Epigenetic upregulation of Schlafen11 renders WNT- and SHH- activated medulloblastomas sensitive to cisplatin" doi:10.1093/neuonc/noac243 Published in Neuro-Oncology Press release
Comparative & Experimental Medicine	Nanaho Fukuda	"Axonal mRNA binding of hnRNP A/B is crucial for axon targeting and maturation of olfactory sensory neurons" doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112398 Published in Cell Reports Press release
Neuroscience of Disease - Matsui Lab	Hideaki Matsui	"Phosphorylation of α-Synuclein at T64 Results in Distinct Oligomers and Exerts Toxicity in models of Parkinson's Disease" doi:10.1073/pnas.2214652120 Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Press release

The Niigata University website on the 2024 NU Best Paper Award (in Japanese).