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Our Int’l Collaborator Akiko Iwasaki Appears on TIME’S 100 List – Twice!

May 28, 2024

We would like to share the big news with you. One of our international collaborators, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki was listed in Time magazine’s “the 100 most influential people of 2024,” in the fields including art, entertainment, world politics, in which Prof. Iwasaki was selected as one of the innovators.

Not only that, Prof. Iwasaki was also selected in Time as one of the leaders in “the 100 most influential people in health”, where Prof. Iwasaki was called as “A Better Booster” for her work on a new approach to COVID-19 vaccination via the nose.

Please join us in congratulating her on outstanding achievements!

 

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